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Tue 01 Jan 2007Heaney wins TS Eliot prize for poetryEvery artist begins a journey but few have sustained it as eloquently and as doggedly as Seamus Heaney who has won this year's TS Eliot prize for poetry. The award, worth £10,000, was presented last night in London for Heaney's latest collection, District and Circle. It has previously been won by Les Murray and Ted Hughes, as well as Paul Muldoon and Michael Longley.It is named in honour of TS Eliot and presented by his widow, Valerie Eliot. Heaney, who has been ill recently, was unable to attend the ceremony.