We’re thrilled to share that Raymond Antrobus has been shortlisted for the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize for his latest poetry collection, Signs, Music. Among the 10 nominees were the posthumous debut collection, Adam, by Gboyega Odubanjo and Scattered Snows, to the North by American poet, Carl Phillips.

Judges, Mimi Khalvati, Anthony Joseph and Hannah Sullivan chose the shortlist from 187 poetry collections submitted by British and Irish publishers. Chair of the judging panel Mimi Khalvati said: “Our shortlisted poets are wonderfully diverse in style, theme and idiom, embracing myth, pop culture, sport, faith, trans identity, AI – a gamut of present and past life. Throughout these collections runs a strong strain of elegy, responding to our dark times with testaments of loss and grief. There is also humour, intimacy, joy and energy – poems to make you well up, to inspire you to write, and most of all to invite you to read.”

The T.S. Eliot Prize 2024 shortlist readings will take place on Sunday 12 January 2025 at 7pm in the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall as part of its literature programme. This is the largest annual poetry event in the UK. Tickets for the readings are now on sale and live stream will be available.

The winner of the 2024 prize will be announced at an award ceremony on Monday 13 January 2025.