Every winner, newest first

T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry Winners

1993 to 2025

Winners by year

Newest first. The year links to everything published or awarded that year.

T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry Winners, newest first
Year Book and author
2025 Wellwater by Karen Solie
2024 Fierce Elegy by Peter Gizzi
2023 Self-Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant
2022 Sonnets for Albert by Anthony Joseph
2021 C+nto & Othered Poems by Joelle Taylor
2020 How to Wash a Heart by Bhanu Kapil
2019 A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson
2018 Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan
2017 Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
2016 Jackself by Jacob Polley
2015 Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe
2014 Fire Songs by David Harsent
2013 Parallax by Sinéad Morrissey
2012 Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds
2011 Black Cat Bone by John Burnside
2010 White Egrets by Derek Walcott
2009 The Water Table by Philip Gross
2008 Nigh-No-Place by Jen Hadfield
2007 The Drowned Book by Sean O'Brien
2006 District and Circle by Seamus Heaney
2005 Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy
2004 Reel by George Szirtes
2003 Landing Light by Don Paterson
2002 Dart by Alice Oswald
2001 The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson
2000 The Weather in Japan by Michael Longley
1999 Billy's Rain by Hugo Williams
1998 Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
1997 God's Gift to Women by Don Paterson
1996 Subhuman Redneck Poems by Les Murray
1995 My Alexandria by Mark Doty
1994 The Annals of Chile by Paul Muldoon
1993 First Language by Ciaran Carson

About the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

The T.S. Eliot Prize is the UK's leading poetry award, presented annually since 1993 by the Poetry Book Society to the best new collection published that year.

Awarded by
The T. S. Eliot Foundation, with the Poetry Book Society
First awarded
1993
Country
United Kingdom and Ireland
Winner receives
£25,000

When it is announced

The winner is announced in January, for collections published the previous year, after a shortlist in October. See the full announcement calendar.

How to enter

Publishers submit collections first published in the UK or Ireland during the year.

Official prize site. Checked August 2026. Dates move year to year, so confirm on the official site before entering.