Joseph takes £25,000 prize for Sonnets for Albert, which weighs the impact of growing up with a largely absent father

Anthony Joseph has won the TS Eliot prize for his collection Sonnets for Albert, described as “luminous” by the judges.

Joseph takes the £25,000 poetry prize, which this year saw a record 201 submissions.

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