Forward Prizes for Poetry

Forward Prizes for Poetry

Awarded for	Best Collection (£10,000); Best First Collection (£5,000); Best Single Poem (£1,000)
Sponsor	Forward Worldwide, Arts Council England, The John Ellerman Foundation, The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, The Rothschild Foundation, The Felix Dennis Trust
Location	United Kingdom

The Forward Prizes for Poetry is an annual poetry awards ceremony in London. They were founded in 1992 by William Sieghart with the aim of celebrating excellence in poetry and increasing its audience, raising poetry's profile and linking poetry to people in new ways. The prizes do this by identifying and honouring talent. Each year, works shortlisted for the prizes - plus those highly commended by the judges - are collected in the Forward Book of Poetry.

The awards have been sponsored since their inception by the content marketing agency Forward Worldwide.

The 25th Forward Prizes will take place on 20 September 2016 at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

The winners of the 2015 prizes were awarded on 28 September 2015 at Southbank Centre

The 24th Forward Book of Poetry, an anthology of all the poems shortlisted for the prizes or highly commended by the judges, was published on 17 September 2015.

Awards

The Forward Prizes for Poetry consist of three awards:

The Forward Prize for Best Collection, £15,000
The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection, £5,000
The Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in memory of Michael Donaghy, £1,000

The Prizes are run by the Forward Arts Foundation, which is also responsible for National Poetry Day. The executive director of the Forward Arts Foundation is Susannah Herbert.^[1]

Judges

The 2016 judging panel is chaired by Malika Booker, writer and spoken word artist, and includes poets George Szirtes and Liz Berry, with singer/songwriter Tracey Thorn and Don Share, editor of Poetry (magazine). The Prizes will be awarded on 20 September 2016 at London's Southbank Centre.^[2]

Previous Winners

Best Collection

2015: Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Penguin Books)
2014: Kei Miller, The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion (Carcanet)
2013: Michael Symmons Roberts, Drysalter (Cape Poetry)
2012: Jorie Graham, Place^[3]
2011: John Burnside, Black Cat Bone (Jonathan Cape)
2010: Seamus Heaney, Human Chain (Faber)
2009: Don Paterson, Rain (Faber)
2008: Mick Imlah, The Lost Leader (Faber)
2007: Sean O'Brien, The Drowned Book (Picador)
2006: Robin Robertson, Swithering (Picador)
2005: David Harsent, Legion (Faber & Faber)
2004: Kathleen Jamie, The Tree House (Picador)
2003: Ciarán Carson, Breaking News (The Gallery Press)
2002: Peter Porter, Max is Missing (Picador)
2001: Sean O'Brien, Downriver (Picador)
2000: Michael Donaghy, Conjure (Picador)
1999: Jo Shapcott, My Life Asleep (Oxford University Press)
1998: Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters (Faber and Faber)
1997: Jamie McKendrick, The Marble Fly (Oxford University Press)
1996: John Fuller, Stones and Fires (Chatto & Windus)
1995: Sean O'Brien, Ghost Train (Oxford University Press)
1994: Alan Jenkins, Harm (Chatto & Windus)
1993: Carol Ann Duffy, Mean Time (Anvil Press)
1992: Thom Gunn, The Man with Night Sweats (Faber and Faber)

Best First Collection

2015: Mona Arshi, Small Hands (Liverpool University Press)
2014: Liz Berry, Black Country (Chatto & Windus)
2013: Emily Berry, Dear Boy (Faber and Faber)
2012: Sam Riviere, 81 Austerities^[3]
2011: Rachael Boast, Sidereal (Picador Poetry)
2010: Hilary Menos, Berg (Seren)
2009: Emma Jones, The Striped World (Faber)
2008: Kathryn Simmonds, Sunday at the Skin Launderette (Seren)
2007: Daljit Nagra, Look We Have Coming to Dover! (Faber and Faber)
2006: Tishani Doshi, Countries of the Body (Aark Arts)
2005: Helen Farish, Intimates (Jonathan Cape)
2004: Leontia Flynn, These Days (Jonathan Cape)
2003: A. B. Jackson, Fire Stations (Anvil Press)
2002: Tom French, Touching the Bones (The Gallery Press)
2001: John Stammers, The Panoramic Lounge Bar (Picador)
2000: Andrew Waterhouse, In (The Rialto)
1999: Nick Drake, The Man in the White Suit (Bloodaxe)
1998: Paul Farley, The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You (Picador)
1997: Robin Robertson, A Painted Field (Picador)
1996: Kate Clanchy, Slattern (Chatto & Windus)
1995: Jane Duran, Breathe Now, Breathe (Enitharmon Press)
1994: Kwame Dawes, Progeny of Air (Peepal Tree)
1993: Don Paterson, Nil Nil (Faber and Faber)
1992: Simon Armitage, Kid (Faber and Faber)

Best Single Poem

2015: Claire Harman, 'The Mighty Hudson' (TLS)
2014: Stephen Santus, 'In a Restaurant' (The Bridport Prize)
2013: Nick MacKinnon, 'The Metric System' (The Warwick Review)
2012: Denise Riley, 'A Part Song'^[3]
2011: R. F. Langley, 'To a Nightingale' (London Review of Books)
2010: Julia Copus, 'An Easy Passage'
2009: Robin Robertson, 'At Roane Head'
2008: Don Paterson, 'Love Poem for Natalie 'Tusja' Beridze' (Poetry Review)
2007: Alice Oswald, 'Dunt' (Poetry London)
2006: Sean O'Brien, 'Fantasia on a Theme of James Wright' (Poetry Review)
2005: Paul Farley, 'Liverpool Disappears for a Billionth of a Second' (The North)
2004: Daljit Nagra, 'Look We Have Coming to Dover!' (Poetry Review)
2003: Robert Minhinnick, 'The Fox in the National Museum of Wales' (Poetry London)
2002: Medbh McGuckian, 'She is in the Past, She has this Grace' (The Shop)
2001: Ian Duhig, 'The Lammas Hireling'
2000: Tessa Biddington, 'The Death of Descartes'
1999: Robert Minhinnick, 'Twenty-five Laments for Iraq'
1998: Sheenagh Pugh, 'Envying Owen Beattie'
1997: Lavinia Greenlaw, 'A World Where News Travelled Slowly'
1996: Kathleen Jamie, 'The Graduates'
1995: Jenny Joseph, 'In Honour of Love'
1994: Iain Crichton Smith, 'Autumn'
1993: Vicki Feaver, 'Judith'
1992: Jackie Kay, 'Black Bottom'

References

↑ Forward Arts Foundation. Retrieved 04 July 2013
↑ "Forward Prizes 2016 | Forward Arts Foundation". www.forwardartsfoundation.org. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
1 2 3 Alison Flood (1 October 2012). "Jorie Graham takes 2012 Forward prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 October 2012.

External links

http://www.forwardartsfoundation.org/poetry.htm

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