Coming your way? Top poets on TS Eliot Prize anniversary tour
The renowned TS Eliot Prize, organised by the Poetry Book Society, is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a 10-venue national tour of readings this autumn. The tour, involving leading poets who have been shortlisted for the prize in recent years along with some local poets, will call in at Portsmouth, Winchester, Oldham, Halifax, Ludlow, Glasgow, Norwich, Liverpool, Durham and Sheffield. Poets lined up for different venues include George Szirtes, Penelope Shuttle, Tim Liardet, Maggie Sawkins, David Harsent, Daljit Nagra, Jen Hadfield, Jane Draycott, Ian Duhig, John Burnside, Fiona Sampson, Christopher Reid, Philip Gross, Gillian Clarke, Frances Leviston, Luke Kennard, Don Paterson, Kathleen Jamie, Monica Alvi, Sean Borodale, Helen Ivory, Maura Dooley, Sam Willetts, Andrew McMillan, Deryn Rees-Jones, Sean O’Brien, Paul Farley, Esther Morgan, and Helen Mort. You can check who is appearing where and when here