T. S. Eliot Foundation
@tseliotfoundation.bsky.social
Official account for the T. S. Eliot Foundation, a charity for the promotion of poetry, literacy and all things Eliot.
'At the end we preferred to travel all night,
Sleeping in snatches,
With the voices singing in our ears, saying
That this was all folly.'
Listen to Daniel Day Lewis read Journey of the Magi on the Feast of the Epiphany.
tseliot.com/poetry/ariel...
@faberbooks.bsky.social
Sleeping in snatches,
With the voices singing in our ears, saying
That this was all folly.'
Listen to Daniel Day Lewis read Journey of the Magi on the Feast of the Epiphany.
tseliot.com/poetry/ariel...
@faberbooks.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 10:39 AM
'At the end we preferred to travel all night,
Sleeping in snatches,
With the voices singing in our ears, saying
That this was all folly.'
Listen to Daniel Day Lewis read Journey of the Magi on the Feast of the Epiphany.
tseliot.com/poetry/ariel...
@faberbooks.bsky.social
Sleeping in snatches,
With the voices singing in our ears, saying
That this was all folly.'
Listen to Daniel Day Lewis read Journey of the Magi on the Feast of the Epiphany.
tseliot.com/poetry/ariel...
@faberbooks.bsky.social
'We die with the dying:
See, they depart, and we go with them.
We are born with the dead:
See, they return, and bring us with them.'
Remembering T. S. Eliot who died on 4th January 1965
See, they depart, and we go with them.
We are born with the dead:
See, they return, and bring us with them.'
Remembering T. S. Eliot who died on 4th January 1965
January 4, 2026 at 10:42 AM
'We die with the dying:
See, they depart, and we go with them.
We are born with the dead:
See, they return, and bring us with them.'
Remembering T. S. Eliot who died on 4th January 1965
See, they depart, and we go with them.
We are born with the dead:
See, they return, and bring us with them.'
Remembering T. S. Eliot who died on 4th January 1965
'When the short day is brightest, with frost and fire,
The brief sun flames the ice, on pond and ditches,
In windless cold that is the heart’s heat,
Reflecting in a watery mirror
A glare that is blindness in the early afternoon.'
— Little Gidding
#Wintersolstice
The brief sun flames the ice, on pond and ditches,
In windless cold that is the heart’s heat,
Reflecting in a watery mirror
A glare that is blindness in the early afternoon.'
— Little Gidding
#Wintersolstice
December 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
'When the short day is brightest, with frost and fire,
The brief sun flames the ice, on pond and ditches,
In windless cold that is the heart’s heat,
Reflecting in a watery mirror
A glare that is blindness in the early afternoon.'
— Little Gidding
#Wintersolstice
The brief sun flames the ice, on pond and ditches,
In windless cold that is the heart’s heat,
Reflecting in a watery mirror
A glare that is blindness in the early afternoon.'
— Little Gidding
#Wintersolstice
On Sun 8 Feb, Marylebone Theatre is hosting a programme of music & readings from Four Quartets.
From 1 to 28 February 2026, a selection of paintings by artist Jérémie Queyras, inspired by Four Quartets will be on display in the theatre foyer.
More info: marylebonetheatre.com/productions/...
From 1 to 28 February 2026, a selection of paintings by artist Jérémie Queyras, inspired by Four Quartets will be on display in the theatre foyer.
More info: marylebonetheatre.com/productions/...
Four Quartets at Marylebone Theatre
Four Quartets at Marylebone Theatre from Feb 08, 2026 to . spoken word
marylebonetheatre.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
On Sun 8 Feb, Marylebone Theatre is hosting a programme of music & readings from Four Quartets.
From 1 to 28 February 2026, a selection of paintings by artist Jérémie Queyras, inspired by Four Quartets will be on display in the theatre foyer.
More info: marylebonetheatre.com/productions/...
From 1 to 28 February 2026, a selection of paintings by artist Jérémie Queyras, inspired by Four Quartets will be on display in the theatre foyer.
More info: marylebonetheatre.com/productions/...
'...the question whether one is a writer at all is one which constantly asks itself and I think ought to go on asking itself from time to time...I have never got rid of it myself and it attacks me from time to time most unexpectedly.'
—8 Sep 1943
#writers
#TheLettersofTSEliot
—8 Sep 1943
#writers
#TheLettersofTSEliot
December 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
'...the question whether one is a writer at all is one which constantly asks itself and I think ought to go on asking itself from time to time...I have never got rid of it myself and it attacks me from time to time most unexpectedly.'
—8 Sep 1943
#writers
#TheLettersofTSEliot
—8 Sep 1943
#writers
#TheLettersofTSEliot
Last chance to see Adrian Dunbar's setting of The Waste Land at the Southbank tonight!
Performances at 6pm and 8pm.
@FaberBooks @southbankcentre
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/adr...
Performances at 6pm and 8pm.
@FaberBooks @southbankcentre
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/adr...
Adrian Dunbar: TS Eliot's The Waste Land | Southbank Centre
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Last chance to see Adrian Dunbar's setting of The Waste Land at the Southbank tonight!
Performances at 6pm and 8pm.
@FaberBooks @southbankcentre
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/adr...
Performances at 6pm and 8pm.
@FaberBooks @southbankcentre
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/adr...
Adrian Dunbar's staging of The Waste Land, with a score by Nick Roth, will be performed at
@middletemple
Hall on Tuesday 18 Nov @ 7pm and
@southbankcentre
on Wednesday 19 Nov @ 6pm and 8pm
Info & tickets:
fleetstreetquarter.co.uk/copy-of-even...
@middletemple
Hall on Tuesday 18 Nov @ 7pm and
@southbankcentre
on Wednesday 19 Nov @ 6pm and 8pm
Info & tickets:
fleetstreetquarter.co.uk/copy-of-even...
ADRIAN DUNBAR: T.S. ELIOT'S THE WASTE LAND AT MIDDLE TEMPLE HALL
Directed by Adrian Dunbar, with score by Nick Roth, T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land in the rarely-accessible Middle Temple is a must-see.
fleetstreetquarter.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Adrian Dunbar's staging of The Waste Land, with a score by Nick Roth, will be performed at
@middletemple
Hall on Tuesday 18 Nov @ 7pm and
@southbankcentre
on Wednesday 19 Nov @ 6pm and 8pm
Info & tickets:
fleetstreetquarter.co.uk/copy-of-even...
@middletemple
Hall on Tuesday 18 Nov @ 7pm and
@southbankcentre
on Wednesday 19 Nov @ 6pm and 8pm
Info & tickets:
fleetstreetquarter.co.uk/copy-of-even...
'Eliot was not only a prolific, but also a powerful prose writer.
...
The most important picture that emerges from these thousands of pages is that of a writer who works hard at writing both as a means of expression and as a mode of thought.''
hudsonreview.com/2025/10/what...
...
The most important picture that emerges from these thousands of pages is that of a writer who works hard at writing both as a means of expression and as a mode of thought.''
hudsonreview.com/2025/10/what...
What We Can Do Is to Use Our Minds: T. S. Eliot, Collected Prose | The Hudson Review
hudsonreview.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
'Eliot was not only a prolific, but also a powerful prose writer.
...
The most important picture that emerges from these thousands of pages is that of a writer who works hard at writing both as a means of expression and as a mode of thought.''
hudsonreview.com/2025/10/what...
...
The most important picture that emerges from these thousands of pages is that of a writer who works hard at writing both as a means of expression and as a mode of thought.''
hudsonreview.com/2025/10/what...
The latest exhibition at @WorldChessHOF features two items from our collection: a pocket chess set used by T S Eliot's father, Henry Ware Eliot, during the 1st World War to play correspondence chess with his son, & Henry's notebook of chess problems and solutions.
worldchesshof.org/program/2025...
worldchesshof.org/program/2025...
October 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The latest exhibition at @WorldChessHOF features two items from our collection: a pocket chess set used by T S Eliot's father, Henry Ware Eliot, during the 1st World War to play correspondence chess with his son, & Henry's notebook of chess problems and solutions.
worldchesshof.org/program/2025...
worldchesshof.org/program/2025...
'The period of these letters covers the time when Eliot was at the height of his fame as poet, critic, and Christian spokesman. They also reveal the very best side of his nature...
Once again, Haffenden has done a brilliant job'
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
Once again, Haffenden has done a brilliant job'
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
Book review: The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 10, 1942-1944, edited by Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden
Richard Harries reads wartime letters from the poet T. S. Eliot
www.churchtimes.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM
'The period of these letters covers the time when Eliot was at the height of his fame as poet, critic, and Christian spokesman. They also reveal the very best side of his nature...
Once again, Haffenden has done a brilliant job'
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
Once again, Haffenden has done a brilliant job'
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
Colm Tóibín will give this year's T. S. Eliot Lecture at the @AbbeyTheatre in Dublin.
The lecture, titled 'The Road to Little Gidding Yeats, Auden, Eliot 1939, 1940, 1941' will be delivered on Sunday 14 December.
www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/t-s...
#TSEliotLecture
The lecture, titled 'The Road to Little Gidding Yeats, Auden, Eliot 1939, 1940, 1941' will be delivered on Sunday 14 December.
www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/t-s...
#TSEliotLecture
October 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Colm Tóibín will give this year's T. S. Eliot Lecture at the @AbbeyTheatre in Dublin.
The lecture, titled 'The Road to Little Gidding Yeats, Auden, Eliot 1939, 1940, 1941' will be delivered on Sunday 14 December.
www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/t-s...
#TSEliotLecture
The lecture, titled 'The Road to Little Gidding Yeats, Auden, Eliot 1939, 1940, 1941' will be delivered on Sunday 14 December.
www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/t-s...
#TSEliotLecture
We're delighted to support Slow Burn, a biannual collection of new lyric poetry, edited by Callum MacKillop. The first edition is available to purchase now: slowburnpoetry.com
Slow Burn
a biannual collection of lyric poetry
slowburnpoetry.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
We're delighted to support Slow Burn, a biannual collection of new lyric poetry, edited by Callum MacKillop. The first edition is available to purchase now: slowburnpoetry.com
Reposted by T. S. Eliot Foundation
We are deeply saddened to share the news that Chris Holifield, Director of the Poetry Book Society 2003–16 and Director of the T. S. Eliot Prize 2016–22, died on 3 September 2025.
Read our tribute to Chris in full: tseliot.com/prize/a-tire...
Read our tribute to Chris in full: tseliot.com/prize/a-tire...
September 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
We are deeply saddened to share the news that Chris Holifield, Director of the Poetry Book Society 2003–16 and Director of the T. S. Eliot Prize 2016–22, died on 3 September 2025.
Read our tribute to Chris in full: tseliot.com/prize/a-tire...
Read our tribute to Chris in full: tseliot.com/prize/a-tire...
Reposted by T. S. Eliot Foundation
We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist!
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."
Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."
Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/
October 6, 2025 at 8:06 AM
We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist!
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."
Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."
Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/
'HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
Goonight Bill. Goonight Lou. Goonight May. Goonight.
Ta ta. Goonight. Goonight.
Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night.'
Happy #nationalpoetryday2025
The Waste Land: tseliot.com/poetry/the-w...
Goonight Bill. Goonight Lou. Goonight May. Goonight.
Ta ta. Goonight. Goonight.
Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night.'
Happy #nationalpoetryday2025
The Waste Land: tseliot.com/poetry/the-w...
October 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
'HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
Goonight Bill. Goonight Lou. Goonight May. Goonight.
Ta ta. Goonight. Goonight.
Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night.'
Happy #nationalpoetryday2025
The Waste Land: tseliot.com/poetry/the-w...
Goonight Bill. Goonight Lou. Goonight May. Goonight.
Ta ta. Goonight. Goonight.
Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night.'
Happy #nationalpoetryday2025
The Waste Land: tseliot.com/poetry/the-w...
'We die with the dying:
See, they depart, and we go with them.
We are born with the dead:
See, they return, and bring us with them.'
Remembering T. S. Eliot on his birthday. Born in St Louis #OTD 1888.
A cabinet card portrait of TSE, aged about 3, holding Toby the dog, c.1891.
See, they depart, and we go with them.
We are born with the dead:
See, they return, and bring us with them.'
Remembering T. S. Eliot on his birthday. Born in St Louis #OTD 1888.
A cabinet card portrait of TSE, aged about 3, holding Toby the dog, c.1891.
September 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
'We die with the dying:
See, they depart, and we go with them.
We are born with the dead:
See, they return, and bring us with them.'
Remembering T. S. Eliot on his birthday. Born in St Louis #OTD 1888.
A cabinet card portrait of TSE, aged about 3, holding Toby the dog, c.1891.
See, they depart, and we go with them.
We are born with the dead:
See, they return, and bring us with them.'
Remembering T. S. Eliot on his birthday. Born in St Louis #OTD 1888.
A cabinet card portrait of TSE, aged about 3, holding Toby the dog, c.1891.
'Between midnight and dawn, when the past is all deception,
The future futureless, before the morning watch
When time stops and time is never ending;
And the ground swell, that is and was from the beginning,
Clangs
The bell.'
— The Dry Salvages, 1st published by Faber #OTD 1941
The future futureless, before the morning watch
When time stops and time is never ending;
And the ground swell, that is and was from the beginning,
Clangs
The bell.'
— The Dry Salvages, 1st published by Faber #OTD 1941
September 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
'Between midnight and dawn, when the past is all deception,
The future futureless, before the morning watch
When time stops and time is never ending;
And the ground swell, that is and was from the beginning,
Clangs
The bell.'
— The Dry Salvages, 1st published by Faber #OTD 1941
The future futureless, before the morning watch
When time stops and time is never ending;
And the ground swell, that is and was from the beginning,
Clangs
The bell.'
— The Dry Salvages, 1st published by Faber #OTD 1941
'Four Quartets' will be performed by Alfred Enoch & Tim Crouch at Marylebone Theatre, London
Monday 29th September, 7:30pm
More information: marylebonetheatre.com/productions/...
@faberbooks.bsky.social
Monday 29th September, 7:30pm
More information: marylebonetheatre.com/productions/...
@faberbooks.bsky.social
Four Quartets at Marylebone Theatre
Four Quartets at Marylebone Theatre from Sep 29, 2025 to . Spoken Word
marylebonetheatre.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
'Four Quartets' will be performed by Alfred Enoch & Tim Crouch at Marylebone Theatre, London
Monday 29th September, 7:30pm
More information: marylebonetheatre.com/productions/...
@faberbooks.bsky.social
Monday 29th September, 7:30pm
More information: marylebonetheatre.com/productions/...
@faberbooks.bsky.social