Jen Hadfield has won the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry reportsThe Guardian. The T. S. Eliot Prize is now the biggest cash award in UK poetry with a prize of 15,000 pounds. The Guardian calls Hadfield a "relative newcomer to poetry who has been widely praised for her passion and awareness of the natural world." She won the coveted prize with her second book of poetry called Nigh-No-Place (Bloodaxe).
The poet laureate Andrew Motion, who chaired this year's judges, said he was delighted that Hadfield was the winner. "Nigh-No-Place shows that she is a remarkably original poet near the beginning of what is obviously going to be a distinguished career." The other judges were poets Lavinia Greenlaw and Tobias Hill.
Hadfield may have to pinch herself when she looks at the company she joins. Previous winners of the prize, created in 1993 by the Poetry Book Society, include Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy, Don Paterson and Ted Hughes.
Jen Hadfield has won the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 