TS Eliot prize for poetry 2005
Duffy wins TS Eliot poetry prize
Carol Ann Duffy, whose new collection Rapture is one of the top-selling poetry collections in the UK, last night won the £10,000 TS Eliot poetry prize.
The devil's wine
Ian Sansom praises the dark, disturbing winner of the 2005 Forward prize, David Harsent's Legion.
Halfway through
Sarah Crown enjoys Helen Farish's assured debut collection, Intimates.
I am in heaven, I am in hell
Carol Ann Duffy links love poems into a single, entrancing narrative in Rapture, says Kate Kellaway.
Mysterious nature
Alice Oswald's Woods Etc and Adrian Blamires's The Effect of Coastal Processes both stand out for their originality, writes Carol Rumens.
On the town
Charles Bainbridge admires John Stammers's Stolen Love Behaviour, a collection of poems of subversive affairs and hidden desires.