T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist for 2020 Announced

The shortlist for the 2020 T. S. Eliot Prize have been announced, and poets in the running for the estimable £25,000 include Natalie Diaz, Bhanu Kapil, and Daisy Lafarge, whose Life Without Air (Granta Poetry) is one of three debut collections on the list. Nine different presses are represented, five of them newly established or small. The full shortlist:

Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem (Faber & Faber)

Sasha Dugdale, Deformations (Carcanet Press)

Ella Frears, Shine, Darling (Offord Road Books)

Will Harris, RENDANG (Granta Poetry)

Wayne Holloway Smith, Love Minus Love (Bloodaxe Books)

Bhanu Kapil, How to Wash a Heart (Pavilion Poetry)

Daisy Lafarge, Life Without Air (Granta Poetry)

Glyn Maxwell, How the hell are you (Picador Poetry)

Shane McCrae, Sometimes I Never Suffered (Corsair Poetry)

J O Morgan, The Martian’s Regress (Cape Poetry)

More info on the T. S. Eliot Prize is here.