Eliot Prize shortlist revealed
The Poetry Book Society of London has announced its shortlist for the 2009 T.S. Eliot Prize. The winner, to be announced on January 18, will be awarded £15,000 ($24,483.47); shortlisted poets will receive £1,000 ($1,632.23). The ten potentials are Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s The Sun Fish, Fred D’Aguiar Continental Shelf, Jane Draycott’s Over, Philip Gross’s The Water Table, Sinéad Morrissey’s Through the Square Window, Sharon Olds’s One Secret Thing, Alice Oswald’s Weeds & Wild Flowers, Christopher Reid’s A Scattering, George Szirtes’s The Burning of the Books and Other Poems, Hugo Williams’s West End Final.