T. S. Eliot Foundation

Freddie Fox on learning poetry by heart & Prufrock on @BBCr4today (1:41:57 in): bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… His full recital can be heard here: tseliot.com/foundation/pru… @poetrybyheart @pbhcompetition (Instagram)

J. Alfred Prufrock is 110! Listen to Freddie Fox recite the poem by heart and discuss the poem’s beginnings & influences with James Lever tseliot.com/foundation/pru… @FaberBooks @Poetry_Society @POETSorg @PoetrySociety @eccobooks

Delighted and relieved to see a first finished copy of “The Letters of T. S. Eliot”, volume 10, to be published in late July. My dear thanks to the Eliot Estate & everyone at Faber & Faber who have helped me bring it into being.

'This is one moment, But know that another Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy When the figure of God’s purpose is made complete.' — Thomas Becket in 'Murder in the Cathedral', first performed at Canterbury Cathedral 90 years ago today. #OnThisDay 1935

It is not always May… #may #spring #season #poem #poetry #poet #writing #drama #performance #theatre #whatsonlondon #london #poetryisnotdead

Tickets for the Annual T.S. Eliot Festival at Little Gidding on Sunday 6th July are now on sale! Featuring @WildThymeUnseen @johnhaffenden @georgeszirtes @KatherineWaterston and more! See our Events page for details and to book: tseliotsociety.uk

'If you came this way in may time, you would find the hedges White again, in May, with voluptuary sweetness.' #OnThisDay in 1936, Eliot visited Little Gidding and took some snaps of the church and Nicholas Ferrar's tomb. #FourQuartets

'The end of the enjoyment of poetry is a pure contemplation from which all the accidents of personal emotion are removed; thus we aim to see the object as it really is …' — T. S. Eliot's 1920 essay, The Perfect Critic: tseliot.com/essays/the-per…

The T. S. Eliot Foundation is delighted to announce the judges for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025. Michael Hofmann will chair and will be joined on the panel by fellow poets Patience Agbabi and Niall Campbell. Read more now: tseliot.com/prize/category…

'The clue to these six poems... seems to be that the poet has entered on a new stage of his life. Adhesit pavimento might be written over them, but also De profundis, for the strongest feeling that they give is of a spirit’s communing.' —Ash Wednesday, published 95 yrs ago today

Our latest From the Archive blog post explores T. S. Eliot's entrance into publishing and features an exclusive 1961 audio recording of Eliot recalling his first meeting with Geoffrey Faber in December 1924... tseliot.com/foundation/100…

100 yrs ago today, T S Eliot embarked on a career in publishing, joining Faber & Gwyer as a Director. '..at our Directors' Meeting this afternoon you were appointed a Director of the Company...We must meet as soon as possible and celebrate' — Geoffrey Faber, 23 April 1925 #OTD

'The rarest experience is to come across a new poet who strikes you as so good that you don’t need anybody’s judgment but your own.' — TSE on The Publishing of Poetry: tseliot.com/prose/the-publ… Published by @thebookseller in 1952

Ingenious costume created in honour of World Book Day and a chance to remember the great Benjamin Zephaniah. The costume represents Zephaniah's 'Eat your words' with its first line, ' I am a veggie table...' #worldbookday2025 @BZephaniah

Happy World Book Day! A young T. S. Eliot reading on the porch of his family's summer home in Gloucester, Massachusetts. #WorldBookDay

'Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still.' — Ash Wednesday

Happy 100th Birthday Edward Gorey! A well known lover of cats, Gorey illustrated the 1982 edition of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 🐈‍⬛

Register now for this year's T. S. Eliot International Summer School, 5th-13th July, at Merton College, Oxford. See the full @TSEliotSchool programme below. Further information and registration: tseliotschool.com