Nobel laureate Derek Walcott has won the T.S. Eliot Prize, a prestigious U.K. poetry award. T.S. Eliot‘s widow, Valerie presented Walcott with the £15,000 prize at a London ceremony.
Here’s more from The Guardian: “The winning collection, White Egrets, was described by the chair of judges, poet Anne Stevenson, as ‘moving and technically flawless.’… Also on the shortlist of 10 were collections by Simon Armitage, Fiona Sampson, Pascale Petit, Annie Freud, John Haynes and Robin Robertson.”
Two years ago, the poet withdrew from the running for an Oxford professor position following a scandal. A few weeks later, an anonymously-written poem about the incident was published.