The 11th Christopher Tower Poetry competition is now open - full details here.

The T S Eliot Prize Shadowing Scheme 2010

A great way to introduce secondary school pupils to the best in contemporary poetry.

The T S Eliot Prize Shadowing Scheme provides an excellent opportunity for students to engage with the best new poetry by shadowing the judges of the T S Eliot Prize for Poetry. Two poems from the ten collections shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize are now available to download from www.poetrybooks.co.uk/projects/15.

The Shadowing Scheme is run by the Poetry Book Society in collaboration with the English and Media Centre. We hope that students will be encouraged to read the poems and to take part in a poll to vote for their choice of winner. There will also be a competition for individual ‘A’ level students aged 16 - 19 to write the best 500 word rationale for their choice of poet.

Prizes for the winning student include tickets to the T S Eliot Readings and the award ceremony in January 2011, with the chance to meet the winning poet, and a complete set of the 10 shortlisted titles. The closing date is 20th December 2010.

For further details, please visit the Poetry Book Society website at www.poetrybooks.co.uk/projects/15. The Scheme was launched on 21st October and a teachers’ guide is available on the emagazine website at www.englishandmedia.co.uk/eliot.