T.S. Eliot Prize Shortlist

We’re thrilled that Vona Groarke has been shortlisted for this year’s T. S. Eliot Prize for her collection, Infinity Pool.⁠
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Judges Michael Hofmann (Chair), Patience Agbabi and Niall Campbell have chosen the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 Shortlist from 177 poetry collections submitted by 64 British and Irish publishers. ⁠
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Shortlisted authors are:⁠
Gillian Allnutt, Isabelle Baafi, Catherine-Esther Cowie, Paul Farley, Vona Groarke, Sarah Howe, Nick Makoha, Tom Paulin, Natalie Shapero and Karen Solie.⁠
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The T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 Shortlist Readings will take place on Sunday 18 January 2026 at 7pm in the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall as part of its literature programme. This is the largest annual poetry event in the UK. Tickets for the Readings are now on sale. A live stream is also available.⁠
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The winner of the 2025 Prize will be announced at the Award Ceremony on Monday 19 January 2026, where the winner and the shortlisted poets will be presented with their cheques. The winner will receive a cheque for £25,000.⁠
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Vona Groarke has published thirteen books with The Gallery Press, most recently Infinity Pool (2025), Woman of Winter (2023), with drawings by Isabel Nolan, and Link: Poet and World (2021). Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O’Hara was published by New York University Press in 2022 and won the 2024 Michel Déon Prize. A member of Aosdána, she was a 2018-19 Fellow of the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library and is the current Writer in Residence at St John’s College, Cambridge. She is the Ireland Professor of Poetry (2025-2028).⁠
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