TS Eliot in the news

Having read one of his plays (The Family Reunion) at the weekend, I’m pleased to see that TS Eliot is still very much in the news.

Firstly a new volume of his letters has helped to “restore the personal reputation of the troubled writer” who had long been branded an uncaring husband and other slurs.

Meanwhile his poetic legacy is still being remembered as the short list for the TS Eliot prize was recently unveiled.

His influence on today’s poets remains strong too, with the Guardian’s Stephen Moss traveling to Margate, where Eliot wrote The Waste Land, and Andrew Motion referencing that work as he defends himself against plagiarism charges.