{"id":1480,"date":"2016-10-20T13:40:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T20:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacobpolley.com\/news\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2017-02-03T09:24:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T16:24:40","slug":"jackself-nominated-2016-t-s-elliot-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacobpolley.com\/news\/jackself-nominated-2016-t-s-elliot-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Jackself&#8217; Nominated for 2016 T S Eliot Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-725 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/jacobpolley.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/faber_book-committee_300.jpg\" alt=\"The photograph on the right, courtesy of the Faber Archive, is of the Faber Book Commitee in 1944; Geoffrey Faber is third from the left and T S Eliot is on the extreme left.\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jacob&#8217;s fourth volume of poetry &#8216;<em>Jackself<\/em>&#8216; has been shortlisted for the 2016 TS Eliot Prize.<\/p>\n<p>The T. S. Eliot Foundation has taken over the running of the T. S. Eliot Prize from the Poetry Book Society, the charity which established the Prize in 1993 and ran it for twenty-three years.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry was inaugurated in 1993 to celebrate the Poetry Book Society\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 40th birthday and honour its founding poet.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Described as \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthe prize most poets want to win\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (Sir Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate) and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthe world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top poetry award\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (<em>Independent<\/em>), it is awarded annually to the author of the best new collection of poetry published in the UK and Ireland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The other nominees are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rachael Boast<\/strong> <em>Void Studies<\/em> \/ Picador<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vahni Capildeo<\/strong> <em>Measures of Expatriation<\/em> \/ Carcanet<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ian Duhig<\/strong> <em>The Blind Road-Maker<\/em> \/ Picador<\/li>\n<li><strong>J O Morgan<\/strong> <em>Interference Pattern<\/em> \/ Cape Poetry<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bernard O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Donoghue<\/strong> <em>The Seasons of Cullen Church<\/em> \/ Faber<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alice Oswald<\/strong> <em>Falling Awake<\/em> \/ Cape Poetry<\/li>\n<li><strong>Denise Riley<\/strong> <em>Say Something Back<\/em> \/ Picador<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ruby Robinson<\/strong> <em>Every Little Sound<\/em> \/ Liverpool University Press<\/li>\n<li><strong>Katharine Towers<\/strong> <em>The Remedies<\/em> \/ Picador<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob&#8217;s fourth volume of poetry &#8216;Jackself&#8216; has been shortlisted for the 2016 TS Eliot Prize. 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