'But to what purpose
Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves
I do not know.'

Edward Fox reads Four Quartets: bit.ly/3OMA2OU

📹: Stevie Smith’s first novel was mistaken by the poet Robert Nichols for Virginia Woolf.

Admired by Seamus Heaney, mistaken for Virginia Woolf and asked out for lunch by Sylvia Plath, her often-underestimated poems were as strange and timeless in the 1930s as they are today.

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Our homepage has had a revamp - take a look at tseliot.com

Letters omitted from the print volume of The Letters of T. S. Eliot, vol. 9, annotated by John Haffenden, are now available online: bit.ly/3E3tSov

It's the T. S. Eliot Prize's 30th anniversary this year & we're celebrating past winning collections!
Joelle Taylor won the T.S. Eliot Prize 2021 for C+nto & Othered Poems. Joelle has reflected for us on winning the Prize - read her full piece now: tseliot.com/prize/category…

It's the T. S. Eliot Prize's 30th anniversary this year & we're celebrating past winning collections!
Hugo Williams won the T.S. Eliot Prize 1999 for Billy's Rain. Hugo has reflected for us on his experience of winning the Prize - read his full piece now: tseliot.com/prize/category…

It's the T. S. Eliot Prize's 30th anniversary this year & we're celebrating past winning collections!
David Harsent won the T.S. Eliot Prize 2014 for Fire Songs. David has reflected for us on his experiences with the Prize - read his thoughts now: tseliot.com/prize/category…

Two days left to apply for the Young Critics Scheme 2023!!

It's the T. S. Eliot Prize's 30th anniversary this year & we're celebrating past winning collections!
Hannah Sullivan won the T.S. Eliot Prize 2018 for her book Three Poems. She has reflected for us on what winning meant for her - read her thoughts now: tseliot.com/prize/category…

'The War crippled me as it did everyone else; but me chiefly because it was something I was neither honestly in nor honestly out of, but the Waste Land might have been just the same without the War.'

— T. S. Eliot to E. M. Forster, 10 August 1929

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'A true disciple is impressed by what his master has to say, and consequently by his way of saying it; an imitator – I might say, a borrower – is impressed chiefly by the way the master said it.'

TSE on metre: bit.ly/3Ys02nl

It's the T. S. Eliot Prize's 30th anniversary this year & we're celebrating past winning collections!
John Burnside won the T.S. Eliot Prize 2011 for his collection Black Cat Bone. He has reflected for us on his Eliot win - read his full piece online now: tseliot.com/prize/category…

It's the T. S. Eliot Prize's 30th anniversary this year & we're celebrating past winning collections!
Sharon Olds won the T.S. Eliot Prize 2012 for her collection Stag's Leap. She has reflected for us on her Eliot experiences - read all about them now: tseliot.com/prize/category…

We return to Wilton’s Hall this November with a ghost story which is also a love story – a dramatization of a poet haunted into his greatest work 💌

It's the T. S. Eliot Prize's 30th anniversary this year & we're celebrating past winning collections!
George Szirtes won the T.S. Eliot Prize 2004 for his collection Reel.
George has written for us on winning the prize - you can read his piece here: tseliot.com/prize/categori…

It's the T. S. Eliot Prize's 30th anniversary this year & we're celebrating past winning collections!
Philip Gross won the T.S. Eliot Prize 2009 for The Water Table.
Philip has reflected for us on winning the prize - you can read his thoughts on it here: tseliot.com/prize/category…

Submissions for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2023 close 5pm.co.uk on Thursday!

'I found modern philosophy to be nothing more than a logomachy... But...my study of philosophy has been of great advantage to me in directions in which I never expected it to be. So one never knows what to regret and what to be glad of!'

TSE on philosophy bit.ly/44ZrVF4

It's the T. S. Eliot Prize's 30th anniversary this year & we're celebrating past winning collections!
Bhanu Kapil won the T.S. Eliot Prize 2020 for How To Wash A Heart. Bhanu has reflected for us on winning the prize - you can read her piece now: tseliot.com/prize/category…