Karen Solie has been nominated for the T. S. Eliot Prize for her 2025 collection Wellwater, published by House of Anansi Press in Canada and by Picador Poetry in the U.K.
The £25,000 T. S. Eliot Prize, run by The T. S. Eliot Foundation, is the most valuable prize in British poetry. The award recognizes the best new poetry collection written in English and published in the U.K. or Ireland. Each shortlisted poet receives £1,500.
Ten poets have been shortlisted this year, including former winner Sarah Howe, Tom Paulin, who is shortlisted for the fourth time, and St. Lucian–born Catherine-Esther Cowie, who has lived in both Canada and the U.S., for her debut collection Heirloom (Carcanet Press).
Solie’s previous collections have won the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, Pat Lowther Award, and Trillium Book Award for Poetry.
The 2025 winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize will be announced at a ceremony in London on Jan. 19, 2026.
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