BOOK AWARDS
T S Eliot Prize for Poetry 2005
Established in 1993 to celebrate the Poetry Book Society's 40th birthday and honour it's founding poet, the T S Eliot Prize is now in its 12th year.
This year's judges are Douglas Dunn (Chair), Paul Farley and Carol Rumens.
The £10,000 prize is donated by Eliot's widow, Valerie, and will be presented by her to the winner at a central London ceremony in January 2005.
Winner (announced mid January)
The winner of the T.S. Eliot prize has been announced as Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy, Picador (0330412809)
Shortlist (announced end October)
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Take Me With You | Polly Clark | Bloodaxe | 1852247223 |
| Rapture | Carol Ann Duffy | Picador | 0330412809 |
| Intimates | Helen Farish | Jonathan Cape | 022407279x |
| Legion | David Harsent | Faber & Faber | 0571228097 |
| The State of the Prisons | Sinead Morrissey | Carcanet | 1857547756 |
| Woods Etc | Alice Oswald | Faber & Faber | 0571218520 |
| The Huntress | Pascale Petit | Seren | 1854113968 |
| The Movement of Bodies | Sheenagh Pugh | Seren | 1854113763 |
| Stolen Love Behaviour | John Stammers | Picador | 0330433865 |
| We Were Pedestrians | Gerard Woodward | Chatto & Windus | 0701178876 |
