T.S. Eliot Prize

Description

História e Fundação

O T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, anteriormente conhecido como 'Poetry Book Society Prize', foi fundado em 1993 pela Poetry Book Society e renomeado em 2004 em homenagem ao poeta americano-britânico T.S. Eliot. É amplamente considerado um dos prémios de poesia mais importantes do mundo de língua inglesa, com um forte foco na poesia publicada no Reino Unido e na Irlanda.

Objetivos e Critérios

O prémio é concedido anualmente a uma coleção de poemas publicada no ano anterior. O objetivo principal do prémio é celebrar a poesia e incentivar a sua leitura e apreciação. Ao contrário de alguns outros prémios literários que podem ter várias categorias, o T.S. Eliot Prize concentra-se exclusivamente em coleções de poesia.

Os critérios de seleção são rigorosos, com os juízes a procurar obras que demonstrem originalidade, profundidade emocional, habilidade técnica e um impacto duradouro.

Cerimónia e Reconhecimento

A lista de finalistas, conhecida como 'shortlist', é frequentemente tão celebrada quanto o vencedor, pois destaca uma gama diversificada de vozes poéticas e estilos. A cerimónia de entrega do prémio é um evento significativo no calendário literário britânico, atraindo poetas, editores, críticos e amantes da literatura. O prémio é financiado por várias organizações e doadores, garantindo a sua continuidade e prestígio.

Impacto e Influência

Ao longo dos anos, o T.S. Eliot Prize tem sido fundamental para lançar e consolidar as carreiras de muitos poetas proeminentes, tanto estabelecidos quanto emergentes. A sua influência estende-se para além do Reino Unido, com poetas de todo o mundo a aspirar a ver o seu trabalho reconhecido por este prémio.

Vencedores Notáveis

A lista de vencedores inclui nomes como Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy, Derek Walcott e Alice Oswald, refletindo a alta qualidade e o alcance do prémio. O prémio não só recompensa o mérito literário, mas também serve como um barómetro da vitalidade da poesia contemporânea, destacando as tendências, os temas e as inovações que moldam o género.

Legado e Importância

A sua associação com T.S. Eliot, uma figura seminal na poesia do século XX, confere-lhe um legado e uma gravidade particulares. A Poetry Book Society, como fundadora e administradora inicial, desempenhou um papel crucial na sua ascensão, promovendo a poesia através de clubes de leitura e publicações. A importância do prémio reside na sua capacidade de elevar o perfil da poesia, tornando-a mais acessível e relevante para um público mais vasto, e de reconhecer o trabalho árduo e a arte dos poetas que continuam a enriquecer o panorama literário com as suas palavras.

Winners

2025
Richard Russo

Richard Russo --

Wellwater
2024
Rod Hughes

Rod Hughes --

Fierce Elegy

Rod Hughes is a former Australian rules footballer who played for St Kilda in the Victorian Football League.

2023
Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon --

Self-Portrait as Othello

vice president under Eisenhower and 37th President of the United States; resigned after the Watergate scandal in 1974 (1913-1994)

2022
Robyn Davidson

Robyn Davidson --

Sonnets for Albert

Robyn Davidson (born September 6, 1950) is an Australian writer best known for her book Tracks, about a 1,700-mile trek across the deserts of west Australia using camels. Her career of travelling and writing about her travels has spanned over 30 years

2021
Robinson Jeffers

Robinson Jeffers --

C+nto & Othered Poems

United States poet who wrote about California (1887-1962)

2020
Robin Williams

Robin Williams --

How to Wash a Heart

Robin McLaurim Williams (born July 21, 1951 or 1952) is an American actor and comedian, who won an Oscar, for his performance in Good Will Hunting, as well as six Golden Globes, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and three Grammy's

2019
Robin Tyler

Robin Tyler --

A Portable Paradise

Robin Tyler is a presenter.

2018
Robin Sharma

Robin Sharma --

Three Poems
2017
Richard J. Ferris

Richard J. Ferris --

Night Sky with Exit Wounds
2016
Robin Renwick

Robin Renwick --

Jackself

Robin William Renwick, Baron Renwick of Clifton KCMG, (born 13 December 1937), is a former diplomat and Labour member of the House of Lords

2015
Robin Quivers

Robin Quivers --

Loop of Jade

Robin Ophelia Quivers (born August 8, 1952) is an American talk show host and Howard Stern's long-time primary co-host on his morning radio show

2014
Peter Gray

Peter Gray --

Fire Songs

Peter Gray, was a Scottish writer on life contingencies.

2013
Richard Jefferies

Richard Jefferies --

Parallax

John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 - 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction. For all that, these show a remarkable diversity, including Bevis (1882), a classic children's book, and After London (1885), an early work of science fiction. For much of his adult life, he suffered from tuberculosis, and his struggles with the illness and with poverty also play a role in his writing. Jefferies valued and cultivated an intensity of feeling in his experience of the world around him, a cultivation that he describes in detail in The Story of My Heart (1883). This work, an introspective depiction of his thoughts and feelings on the world, gained him the reputation of a nature mystic at the time. But it is his success in conveying his awareness of nature and people within it, both in his fiction and in essay collections such as The Amateur Poacher (1879) and Round About a Great Estate (1880), that has drawn most admirers. Walter Besant wrote of his reaction on first reading Jefferies: "Why, we must have been blind all our lives; here were the most wonderful things possible going on under our very noses, but we saw them not

2012
Price Cobb

Price Cobb --

Stag's Leap

Price Cobb is an American racecar driver.

2011
Richard Evelyn Byrd

Richard Evelyn Byrd --

Black Cat Bone

explorer and United States naval officer; led expeditions to explore Antarctica (1888-1957)

2010
Heraclitus

Heraclitus --

White Egrets

a presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (circa 500 BC)

2009
Robin Norwood

Robin Norwood --

The Water Table
2007
Rhea Olsen

Rhea Olsen --

The Drowned Book
2006
Anna Mary Robertson Moses

Anna Mary Robertson Moses --

District and Circle

United States painter of colorful and primitive rural scenes (1860-1961)

2005
Rev. Randall R. McBride Jr.

Rev. Randall R. McBride Jr. --

Rapture
2004
Robert Ardrey

Robert Ardrey --

Reel

Robert Ardrey was an American playwright and screenwriter who returned to his academic training in anthropology and the behavioral sciences in the 1950s.

2003
Reverend Edward A. Malloy

Reverend Edward A. Malloy --

Landing Light
2002
Peter James

Peter James --

Dart
2001
Pete Townshend

Pete Townshend --

The Beauty of the Husband

Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend is an English rock musician, composer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for the rock group The Who, as well as for his own solo career.

2000
Peter Brimelow

Peter Brimelow --

The Weather in Japan
1999
Rmy de Gourmont

Rmy de Gourmont --

Billy's Rain
1998
Rich Kulawiec

Rich Kulawiec --

Birthday Letters
1997
Reverend Edward A. Malloy

Reverend Edward A. Malloy --

God's Gift to Women
1996
Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown --

Subhuman Redneck Poems

Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944) is a prolific American writer. She is best known for her first novel Rubyfruit Jungle

1995
Real Live Preacher

Real Live Preacher --

My Alexandria

Anonymous author of RealLivePreacher.com

1994
Peter de Jager

Peter de Jager --

The Annals of Chile
1993
Richard Burton

Richard Burton --

First Language: Poems

Richard Leslie Burton is a former English cricketer.