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Gizzi wins 2024 TS Eliot Prize

In the UK, Peter Gizzi has won the 2024 TS Eliot Prize, worth £25,000 (A$49,319), for Fierce Elegy (Penguin), reports Book Brunch.

Fierce Elegy was chosen from a shortlist of 10 that also included Signs, Music (Raymond Antrobus, Picador), Lapwing (Liverpool University Press, Hannah Copley), The Penny Dropping (Helen Farish, Bloodaxe Books), High Jump as Icarus Story (Gustav Parker Hibbett, Banshee Press), Eleanor Among the Saints (Rachel Mann, Carcanet), Adam (Gboyega Odubanjo, Faber), Scattered Snows, to the North (Carl Phillips, Carcanet), Rhizodont (Katrina Porteous, Bloodaxe Books), and Top Doll (Karen McCarthy Woolf, Dialogue Books).

Judging the prize were Mimi Khalvati (chair), Anthony Joseph and Hannah Sullivan. Said Khalvati: ‘We are delighted to welcome and honour a work that is infinitely sad yet resolute, and so fully alive in body and spirit. Written in the afterlife of grief, Peter Gizzi’s Fierce Elegy brings us poems that revel in minutiae but also brave the large questions in a lyric sequence of transcendental beauty.’

The TS Eliot Prize, which is judged by established poets, is the most valuable prize in British poetry. Last year’s winner was Jason Allen-Paisant, for Self-Portrait as Othello (Carcanet).

 

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