Winner of TS Eliot prize announced

Winner of TS Eliot prize introduced

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Poet Roger Robinson has gained the 2019 TS Eliot Prize.

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Poet Roger Robinson has received the 2019 TS Eliot Prize.

The writer and performer, who lives between London and Trinidad, became honoured with the £25,000 prize for his collection a transportable Paradise, which is described as a "scathing polemic and meditation on love".

He was picked by judges John Burnside, Sarah Howe and Nick Makoha after months of deliberation.

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Burnside, the chairman, talked about a transportable Paradise "finds in the bitterness of standard experience carrying on with facts of 'candy, candy life'".

Robinson has posted two poetry pamphlets, Suitcase (2004) and Suckle (2009), which gained the americans's ebook Prize and the Oxford Brookes Poetry Prize.

His first full poetry collection, The Butterfly lodge (2013), turned into shortlisted for The OCM Bocas Poetry Prize.

The TS Eliot Prize is run by means of The TS Eliot basis and is probably the most positive prize in British poetry. As well because the winning poet receiving a cheque for £25,000, the shortlisted poets each and every get hold of £1,500.

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