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Duffy to chair T S Eliot Prize

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy is to chair the judging panel for the 2012 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry.

A former winner of the prize, Duffy will be joined by poets Michael Longley and David Morley on the panel.

A ten-book shortlist will be picked in October, with the four Poetry Book Society Choices from 2012 automatically included; these are: The Death of King Arthur by Simon Armitage (Faber), The Dark Film by Paul Farley (Picador) and Place by Jorie Graham (Carcanet) plus the Winter Choice, to be announced in August.

The winner of the £15,000 prize will be announced on 14th January 2013, with each of the shortlisted poets receiving £1,000 each. The shortlist readings will take place on 13th January in the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall.

Last year’s winner was John Burnside for his collection Black Cat Bone (Cape).

 

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Soooo is that similar to the Nobel Peace price or something?

When Duffy was 15, June Scriven sent her poems to Outposts, a publisher of pamphlets, where it was read by the bookseller Bernard Stone, who published some of them. When she was 16, she met Adrian Henri, one of the Liverpool poets, and decided she wanted to be with him, living with him until 1982.

Soooo is that similar to the Nobel Peace price or something?

When Duffy was 15, June Scriven sent her poems to Outposts, a publisher of pamphlets, where it was read by the bookseller Bernard Stone, who published some of them. When she was 16, she met Adrian Henri, one of the Liverpool poets, and decided she wanted to be with him, living with him until 1982.