Young Critics review the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist - part 2

Jay Bernard Reads 'After Him' at The Poetry Review Winter 2024 Launch by The Poetry Society

Denise Saul Reads 'The White Room' at The Poetry Review Winter 2024 Launch by The Poetry Society

Crispin Best Reads 'In This Economy' at The Poetry Review Winter 2024 Launch by The Poetry Society

(EXCERPT) Susannah Dickey Reads 'Sex Horse' at The Poetry Review Winter 2024 Launch by The Poetry Society

Chen Chen Reads '2pm in provincetown—' at The Poetry Review Winter 2024 Launch by The Poetry Society

Listen to the final five of this year's Young Critics reviews in podcast form. You can watch all ten reviews on our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/YoungCriticsReviews Tallulah Howarth pulls at the many threads of Rachel Mann’s ‘tapestry of alternative visions’, Eleanor Among the Saints, while Elliot Ruff uncovers the intertextual references of Gboyega Odubanjo’s Adam. Ahana Banerji discusses the skilful patterning and mirroring in Carl Phillips’s Scattered Snows to the North, Tusshara Nalakumar Srilatha finds an invitation to consider non-human perspectives in Katrina Porteous’s Rhizodont, and Priya Abularach elucidates the formal inventiveness in Karen McCarthy Woolf’s verse novel Top Doll. Since 2022, the T. S. Eliot Prize (the most valuable prize for new poetry collections in the UK and Ireland) and Young Poets Network, The Poetry Society’s leading platform for poets aged up to 25, have run an exciting new collaboration to support the next generation of poetry reviewers: the Young Critics Scheme. This year’s scheme follows a hugely successful first two years, in which two cohorts of Young Critics’ video reviews were seen over 60,000 times and shared online by readers, publishers, poets and critics. Several of the Young Critics have since been invited to review for leading magazines including The Poetry Review, Poetry London and Magma. Find out more about The Poetry Society's programmes for young people: https://poetrysociety.org.uk/young-poets

Listen to the first five of this year's Young Critics reviews in podcast form. You can watch all ten reviews on our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/YoungCriticsReviews Priyanka Moorjani reviews Signs, Music by Raymond Antrobus, guiding the viewer through the speaker’s ‘avalanche’ of emotions upon becoming a parent. Joe Wright considers the formal and poetic influences mapped throughout Hannah Copley’s Lapwing, while Sylvie Jane Lewis pays close attention to the epigraphs of Helen Farish’s The Penny Dropping and how they haunt the rest of the text. Eira Murphy situates Peter Gizzi’s Fierce Elegy within the poet’s wider corpus and influences, asking ‘in what ways might we come to a world increasingly pushed to the horizon of its own collapse?’, and Orla Davey interrogates Gustav Parker Hibbett’s use of mythology in High Jump as Icarus Story. Since 2022, the T. S. Eliot Prize (the most valuable prize for new poetry collections in the UK and Ireland) and Young Poets Network, The Poetry Society’s leading platform for poets aged up to 25, have run an exciting new collaboration to support the next generation of poetry reviewers: the Young Critics Scheme. This year’s scheme follows a hugely successful first two years, in which two cohorts of Young Critics’ video reviews were seen over 60,000 times and shared online by readers, publishers, poets and critics. Several of the Young Critics have since been invited to review for leading magazines including The Poetry Review, Poetry London and Magma. Find out more about The Poetry Society's programmes for young people: https://poetrysociety.org.uk/young-poets

Each year, The Poetry Society commissions a new children’s poem celebrating the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square, which is a gift from the city of Oslo to London, as a thank you for helping the King of Norway in World War 2. This year, Valerie Bloom wrote a magical new poem is called ‘A Baby and A Tree’, which is on display around the base of the tree in Trafalgar Square over the 2024 festive period. The poem was premiered at the lighting up ceremony of the tree in front of the mayors of Oslo, London and Westminster, plus thousands of spectators, by three children from a local primary school, St Vincent's RC Primary School. Their names are Aiden, Sebastian and Erietta and in this podcast, you’ll get to hear them read the poem, as well as talk about their experience discovering, writing and performing poetry. You can also find a plethora of free festive KS2 teaching resources and poems on The Poetry Society website at bit.ly/lnmo. Happy holidays from everyone at The Poetry Society!

This is a podcast created by The Poetry Society. This podcast features the Top 15 winning poems read by the winners of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2024. The top 15 winners represent some of the very best young poets in the world. This podcast includes strong language and themes including assault. For more information about the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award please go to foyleyoungpoets.org.uk. Read the top 15 winning poems from 2023 at bit.ly/Foyle2023.

‘We’ve always been here. As long as there has been soldiers, there have been poets. And it’s a long sad, venerable tradition.’ (Peter Gizzi) A Poetry Review podcast between Richard Scott and Peter Gizzi to accompany the Poetry Review Summer 2022 issue. Richard co-edited the issue with Andre Bagoo. You can read more about their issue here: poetrysociety.org.uk/publications/v…2-summer-2022/ You can buy the issue here: bit.ly/ThePoetryReview Richard Scott’s first book is Soho (2018), he guested edited The Poetry Review with Andre Bagoo in Summer 2022. Peter Gizzi’s recent books include, Now It’s Dark (Wesleyan, 2020), Sky Burial: New and Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2020), Archeophonics (Finalist for the National Book Award, Wesleyan, 2016) and In Defense of Nothing (Finalist for the LA Times Book Award, Wesleyan, 2014). His honours include fellowships from the Rex Foundation, the Howard Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has twice been the recipient of the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellowship in Poetry at the University of Cambridge. In 2018 Wesleyan published In the Air: Essays on the Poetry of Peter Gizzi. His most recent collection, Fierce Elegy, is available in the Wesleyan Poetry Series in the US, and will be published in the UK by Penguin in July 2024. Music credit: 'A very minimalist improvisation' by Circus Marcus