The shortlist for the TS Eliot award, the UK's most prestigious prize in poetry, has been announced. It has been awarded to the author of the best new collection of poetry published in the UK and Ireland in the last year.

This week on Today we are going to be featuring all ten of the poets shortlisted for this year's prize. Today it is Pascale Petit reading What the Water Gave Me Six.

Listen to nominated poet Pascale Petit read two of her poems.

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