TS Eliot prize for poetry shortlist contains ‘a strong strain of elegy’

The authors include Gboyega Odubanjo, whose debut collection was published posthumously, Carl Phillips and Karen McCarthy Woolf

Raymond Antrobus, Carl Phillips and Karen McCarthy Woolf are among the poets shortlisted for the 2024 TS Eliot prize.

British-Nigerian poet Gboyega Odubanjo, who died last year aged 27 after going missing at Shambala music festival, has been shortlisted for his debut collection Adam.

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