The Latest Breaking News from Carl Phillips

TS Eliot prize for poetry shortlist contains ‘a strong strain of elegy’

The authors include Gboyega Odubanjo, whose debut collection was published posthumously, Carl Phillips and Karen McCarthy Woolf

The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2024

In brief: The Cloisters; My Trade Is Mystery; Sweat: A History of Exercise – review

A tense whodunnit unfolds in New York’s Metropolitan museum; poet Carl Phillips imparts life lessons for all; and a study of our need to keep in shape

The Guardian - UK · Jan 15, 2023

Poem of the week: For Nothing Tender About It by Carl Phillips

An enigmatic lyric reflects on the relationship of memory and shame

The Guardian - UK · Mar 14, 2022