News at Eleven: The Scottish poet John Burnside has won

the most controversial T.S. Eliot poetry prize in years, for a collection described as "haunting", after two of the original shortlisted poets dropped out in protest over funding from the hedge fund Aurum.

Burnside, a former winner of the Whitbread poetry prize, took the £15,000 prize for his 11th collection, Black Cat Bone. He beat a notably strong surviving list, including the poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy; Sean O'Brien, for his first collection since winning both the T.S. Eliot and the Forward prizes in 2008; and David Harsent, also a previous Forward winner.

from The Guardian: John Burnside wins most controversial T.S. Eliot prize in decades
then The Telegraph: John Burnside: How poetry can change lives
then The Guardian: Guardian books podcast: John Burnside wins T.S. Eliot poetry prize
then London Review of Books: Two Poems: John Burnside
then Granta: Interview: John Burnside

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