TS Eliot prize for poetry 2002
River homage wins TS Eliot prize
The TS Eliot prize for poetry, worth £10,000, was won last night by Alice Oswald for her poem Dart.
Faber to the core
Diary: Faber entries for the TS Eliot prize stack up as Matthew Evans resigns as chairman of Faber and Faber
Allegory and a low-key intimacy
Simon Armitage breaks no new ground in The Universal Home Doctor or Travelling Songs, but Jeremy Noel-Tod finds a strong, original voice in fine form
The praise singer
Geoffrey Hill's first poems were published when he was a working-class student at Oxford. Dogged by depression for many years, he finally found personal happiness in America. But his new work is as passionately uncompromising as ever
'This is Proteus, whoever that is'
David Wheatley finds Alice Oswald's river flows smoothly between Hughesian myth and Larkinesque realism, in Dart