TS Eliot Poetry Prize featuring Hannah Sullivan, Zaffar Kunial and Richard Scott

In this special episode, Southbank Centre literature team's Ted Hodgkinson and Debo Amon turn their focus to the TS Eliot Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in the poetry calendar.

Listen to extracts from the nominated poets’ collections read by the nominees, and, fresh from the 2019 ceremony, Debo shares reaction from the event, including an interview with the winner, Hannah Sullivan.

Plus the pair discuss the themes and the nerves of this year’s competition as well as asking if 2019 is the year of the debut collection?

'Very often collections have an overarching narrative, or approach a particular subject… however this is a very uncategorisable series of poems, because it really does encompass universal and gigantic themes which have run across literature'.

'Very often collections have an overarching narrative, or approach a particular subject… however this is a very uncategorisable series of poems, because it really does encompass universal and gigantic themes which have run across literature'.

Ted Hodgkinson on Hannah Sullivan’s Three Poems