Double triumph as Canadian poet Karen Solie wins £25,000 TS Eliot prize
Canadian poet Karen Solie’s collection Wellwater, published by Picador, has won the £25,000 TS Eliot prize for the best poetry collection published in 2025. It marks a double triumph for Solie, who jointly won the 2025 Forward prize for best collection last year. At the TS Eliot Prize readings on Sunday night she told the audience that her poems were set in south-west Saskatchewan, where she grew up on the family farm. A Guard...
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