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TS Eliot prize for poetry 2012

January 2013

  • Sharon Olds

    Sharon Olds: Confessions of a divorce

    Sabine Durrant: Forty years after a literary magazine dismissed Sharon Olds' poems about her children, she has won the TS Eliot prize for her exploration of an equally domestic theme – the breakup of her marriage

  • Lady Macbeth

    Books blog
    How strong emotion summons poetry

    Only poetry, sunk deep into our bones, can articulate our most intense moments

    • Sharon Olds wins TS Eliot poetry prize for Stag's Leap collection on divorce

    • Rick Gekoski: finger on the page
      Valerie Eliot remembered

    • Sharon Olds: 'I want a poem to be useful'

October 2012

  • Sharon Olds and Kathleen Jamie

    TS Eliot prize for poetry announces 'fresh, bold' shortlist

    Newcomer Sean Borodale joins major names including Sharon Olds and Kathleen Jamie and Simon Armitage
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