The shortlisted poets, clockwise from top left: Gillian Allnutt, Catherine-Esther Cowie, Sarah Howe, Isabelle Baafi, Paul Farley, Karen Solie, Natalie Shapero, Nick Makoha, Vona Groarke, Tom Paulin.Photograph: Top row, l to r: Phyllis Christopher; Catherine-Esther Cowie; Marc Lixenberg; Jolade Olusanya; Urszula Soltys. Second row, l to r: G Barney Cokeliss; St John's College, Cambridge; Dirk Skiba; Sarah Aintelope; Russell Hart
Tom Paulin and Sarah Howe are among the poets shortlisted for this year’s £25,000 TS Eliot prize, the UK and Ireland’s most prestigious award for a single volume of poetry.
The shortlist features 10 collections from established names and new voices, ranging from meditations on illness and inheritance to explorations of ecological collapse and exile.
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