T.S. Eliot Prize 2018 Winner: Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan
It is our very great pleasure to confirm Hannah Sullivan’s luminous debut collection, Three Poems, as the winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2018.
‘It is taking on perennial themes such as our mortality, our sexuality, our gender and our movement through time and place, and doing it in such a fresh and observant way. It is an absolutely exhilarating collection and it is all the more surprising that it is a debut.’
SINÉAD MORRISEY, Chair of Judges
Bursting upon the contemporary poetry scene with a fresh new voice that is intimate, technically brilliant and entirely accessible, Hannah Sullivan’s verse speaks with urgency and poignancy; its immediacy electrifying. Made up of a diverse trio of works, Three Poems speaks collectively to modern experience, exploring birth, death, artistic expression and what it means to be young. Staggeringly accomplished, it is an astonishing collection, the fledgling flight of a prodigious original talent.
Bursting upon the contemporary poetry scene with a fresh new voice that is intimate, technically brilliant and entirely accessible, Hannah Sullivan’s verse speaks with urgency and poignancy; its immediacy electrifying. Made up of a diverse trio of works, Three Poems speaks collectively to modern experience, exploring birth, death, artistic expression and what it means to be young. Staggeringly accomplished, it is an astonishing collection, the fledgling flight of a prodigious original talent.
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