‘It is easy to bemoan the quality of poetry’s decline, when in fact the quantity of good stuff published each year has stayed relatively constant, if you know where to look and whose judgement to trust.’

Dominic Leonard reviews the 2025 T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist.

‘Whether in subject, form, style or quality, a shortlist can at least set out the stall of contemporary poetry and say: this is, for better or worse, what’s going on.’

Dominic Leonard reviews the 2024 T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist.