T. S. Eliot Prize

The T. S. Eliot Prize is awarded each year for the best new collection of poetry published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. The Poetry Book Society created it in 1993 to mark the society's fortieth anniversary and to honor its founding poet, T. S. Eliot, and Eliot's widow, Valerie Eliot, provided the prize money for many years. Since 2016 the prize has been run and funded by the T. S. Eliot Foundation.

A panel of established poets chooses a shortlist of ten collections from the books submitted by publishers. The shortlisted poets read at a large public event in London the evening before the winner is announced each January. The winner receives £25,000 and each shortlisted poet £1,500, which makes it the most valuable annual prize for a poetry collection in the UK.

New collections of poetry written in English and published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland during the previous calendar year, submitted by their publishers.