TS Eliot prize announces a ‘shapeshifting’ shortlist

With a record number of entries, half of the ten shortlisted books are debut collections that the judges describe as ‘unflinching in their explorations of love and grief, brutality and desire’

Five debut collections are among the shortlist for this year’s TS Eliot prize for best new poetry collection, which saw a record number of submissions.

Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Mark Pajak, James Conor Patterson, Denise Saul and Yomi Sode all make the list for the £25,000 prize.