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The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos is a 2001 collection of poetry by Anne Carson that won her the T. S. Eliot Prize.

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Birthday Letters, published in 1998, is a collection of poetry by English poet and children's writer Ted Hughes. Released only months before Hughes's death, the collection won multiple prestigious literary awards. This collection of eighty-eight poems is widely considered to be Hughes's most explicit response to the suicide of his estranged wife Sylvia Plath in 1963, and to their widely discussed, politicized and "explosive" marriage.

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District and Circle is a poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It was published in 2006 and won the 2006 T. S. Eliot Prize, the most prestigious poetry award in the UK. The collection also won the Irish Times "Poetry Now Award".

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Fire Songs is a collection of poetry written by David Harsent that uses multiple themes to display a greater meaning. It was published in 2014, and it won the T.S. Eliot Prize that year. It is the 11th collection of poems that Harsent has published.

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Landing Light, written by Don Paterson, is his third book of poems. After its publication in 2003 by Faber and Faber, it was awarded both the Whitbread Poetry award and the T. S. Eliot Prize.

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Loop of Jade is the first book of poetry by Chinese-British poet Sarah Howe, and the first debut collection to ever win the T. S. Eliot Prize, in 2015. The collection contains poems that trace the author's journey into her own roots, including poems about growing up in Hong Kong and about her mother.

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Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a 2016 collection of poetry by Vietnamese American poet and essayist Ocean Vuong. The book won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2017.

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Rapture is a collection of poetry written by the Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy, the British poet laureate from 2009 to 2019. It marks her 37th work of poetry and has been described as "intensely personal, emotional and elegiac, and markedly different from Duffy’s other works" by the British Council. Rapture was first published in 2005 in the UK by Picador, and in 2013 in the US, by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

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Reel is a collection of poetry by George Szirtes, a Hungarian-born British poet and translator, which won the T. S. Eliot Prize for poetry in 2004. The collection has two parts, in a variety of forms, including sonnet and terza rima. It was praised by critics, who remarked on its emotional power and its attempts to recollect places and people in poems that use ekphrasis to incorporate and emulate elements of cinematography and photography.

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Stag's Leap is a book of poetry written by Sharon Olds and published in 2012. It follows the events leading up to and following the poet's divorce, after a thirty-year marriage. The book won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2012, and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2013.