'The T S Eliot Prize for Poetry was inaugurated in 1993 to celebrate the Poetry Book Society's 40th birthday and honour its founding poet... The winner receives £15,000 and each of the shortlisted poets receives £1,000... The four Poetry Book Society Choices ... are automatically shortlisted for the Prize'.
Source: Poetry Book Society website, http://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/
Sighted: 05/01/2012
'In this collection of poems, farmers, fathers, poverty-stricken pioneers, and people blackened by the grist of the sugar mills are exposed to the blazing midday sun of Murray's linguistic powers. Richly inventive, tenderly perceptive, and fiercely honest, these poems surprise and bare the human in all of us.' (Publication summary)