Poetry Prize Winners

‘At Roane Head’ won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem.

Shortlisted for the inaugural Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, and was also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Paul Farley was awarded the E M Forster Prize in 2009 by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2009.

Sean O’Brien was the first poet to win both the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the T S Eliot Prize in the same year.

In 2007 John Kinsella was awarded the Fellowship of Australian Writers Christopher Brennan Award for lifetime achievement in poetry.

A Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. The poet is also the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award.

Winner of the Glen Dimplex Award and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Shortlisted for Forward Prize for Best Collection and a Poetry Book Society recommendation.

Shortlisted for Forward Prize for Best First Collection.

Shortlisted for Forward Prize for Best Collection. In 2002 he was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.