TS Eliot Prize 2024: who should win the biggest award in poetry?

In 30 years of the TS Eliot Prize, it’s striking that it took until 2015 for a first book, Sarah Howe’s Loop of Jade, to be the winner. From then on, a prize that had typically been awarded to works by established poets became gradually more accessible to debutants, with five on last year’s shortlist, and two this year. In this, the £25,000 prize has reflected a current of feeling among readers and writers impatient with the half-imaginary Establishment that now seems to have been overthrown. If