The shortlist for the T.S. Eliot Prize, honoring "the best new poetry collection published in the U.K. or Ireland," consists of:
Insistence by Ailbhe Darcy
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins by Terrance Hayes
Us by Zaffar Kunial
Feel Free by Nick Laird
The Distal Point by Fiona Moore
Europa by Sean O'Brien
Shrines of Upper Austria by Phoebe Power
Soho by Richard Scott
Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith
Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan
The winner will be announced January 14.