Irish poets Seamus Heaney and Ciaran Carson are among 10 poets on the shortlist for the £5,000 T. S. Eliot prize. Judges Andrew Motion, Helen Dunmore and Ruth Padel selected the 10 best collections of the year and will also choose the eventual winner, to be announced on January 13th.
The full shortlist is Ciaran Carson for Opera Et Cetera, Maura Dooley for Kissing A Bone, John Fuller for Stones and Fires, Seamus Heaney for The Spirit Level Stephen Knight for Dream City Cinema, Adrian Mitchell for Blue Coffee, Les Murray for Subhuman Redneck Poems, Alice Oswald for The Thing In The Gap Stone Stile, Christopher Reid for Expanded Universes and Susan Wicks for The Clever Daughter.