The shortlist has been released for the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize, which honors "the best new poetry collection written in English and published in the U.K. or Ireland. Each shortlisted poet receives £1,500 (about $2,020) and the winner, who will named at the award ceremony on January 19, 2026, gets £25,000 (about $33,685). This year's shortlisted titles are:
Lode by Gillian Allnutt
Chaotic Good by Isabelle Baafi
Heirloom by Catherine-Esther Cowie
When It Rained for a Million Years by Paul Farley
Infinity Pool by Vona Groarke
Foretokens by Sarah Howe
The New Carthaginians by Nick Makoha
Namanlagh by Tom Paulin
Stay Dead by Natalie Shapero
Wellwater by Karen Solie