TS Eliot prize for poetry 2001
Canadian poet becomes first woman to win TS Eliot Prize
Canadian poet Anne Carson last night became the first woman to win the TS Eliot Prize.
Hill starts
Nicholas Lezard is wrestled to the ground by the powerful verse of the greatest living poet in Speech! Speech!, by Geoffrey Hill
Poet scores for the second time
October 4: "The terrace in its shroud of freezing breath/ Hot leg, crap ref, a soft goal at the death". If you like Ron Manager, you'll love double Forward Prize poetry winner Sean O'Brien.
Lux perpetua
Seamus Heaney on the making of his recent collection, Electric Light