Sinead Morrissey is TS Eliot Prize winner

Parallax, her fifth collection, won Sinead Morrissey the prize for which she's been shortlisted four times
Sinead is the inaugural poet laureate for Belfast, and reader in creative writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre.
The Poetry Book Society's TS Eliot Prize is worth £15,000 to the winner, and each of the shortlisted poets – Dannie Abse, Moniza Alvi, Anne Carson, Helen Mort, Daljit Nagra, Maurice Riordan, Robin Robertson, Michael Symmons Roberts and George Szirtes – wins £1,000.
'In a year of brilliantly themed collections, the judges were unanimous in choosing Sinéad Morrissey’s Parallax as the winner,' said judge Ian Duhig. 'Politically, historically and personally ambitious, expressed in beautifully turned language, her book is as many-angled and any-angled as its title suggests.'

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