February 11th, 2009
The T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize panel comprised of Lavinia Greenlaw and Tobias Hill, and chaired by British Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, selected Jen Hadfield’s Nigh-No-Place as the 2009 winner. Hadfield is awarded £15,000. It is the largest prize in British poetry and was described by Motion as, “the most prestigious prize in the country.” Previous winners have included Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Carol-Anne Duffy.
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