Forward Prizes for Poetry

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox award The Forward Prizes for Poetry are major British awards for poetry, presented annually at a public ceremony in London. They were founded in 1992 by William Sieghart with the aim of celebrating excellence in poetry and increasing its audience. The prizes do this by identifying and honouring talent: collections published in the UK and Ireland over the course of the previous year are eligible, as are single poems nominated by journal editors or prize organisers. 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 Bookmark, formerly Forward Worldwide. The best first collection prize is sponsored by the estate of Felix Dennis.

The Forward Prizes for Poetry celebrated their 30th anniversary in 2021. For the 2023 prizes, a new category for outstanding performance of a poem was added to the list of awards.[1]

Awards

The Forward Prizes for Poetry consist of three awards:

  • The Forward Prize for Best Collection, £10,000
  • 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.[2]

Previous winners

Best Collection

Forward Prizes for Best Poetry Collection
Year Author Title Publisher Ref.
1992 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname Faber and Faber
1993 Template:Sortname Mean Time Anvil Press Poetry
1994 Template:Sortname Harm Chatto & Windus
1995 Template:Sortname Ghost Train Oxford University Press [3]
1996 Template:Sortname Stones and Fires Chatto & Windus
1997 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname Oxford University Press
1998 Template:Sortname Birthday Letters Faber and Faber
1999 Template:Sortname My Life Asleep Oxford University Press
2000 Template:Sortname Conjure Picador
2001 Template:Sortname Downriver Picador [3]
2002 Template:Sortname Max is Missing Picador
2003 Template:Sortname Breaking News Gallery Press
2004 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname Picador [4]
2005 Template:Sortname Legion Faber and Faber [5][6]
2006 Template:Sortname Swithering Picador [7]
2007 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname Picador [3]
2008 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname Faber and Faber [8]
2009 Template:Sortname Rain Faber and Faber [9]
2010 Template:Sortname Human Chain Faber and Faber [10]
2011 Template:Sortname Black Cat Bone Jonathan Cape [11]
2012 Template:Sortname PLACE Carcanet Press [12]
2013 Template:Sortname Drysalter Cape Poetry [13]
2014 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname Carcanet Press [14]
2015 Template:Sortname Citizen: An American Lyric Penguin Books [15]
2016 Template:Sortname Measures of Expatriation Carcanet Press [16][17][18]
2017 Template:Sortname On Balance Carcanet Press [19]
2018 Template:Sortname Don't Call Us Dead Chatto & Windus [20][21]
2019 Template:Sortname Vertigo and Ghost Cape Poetry [22][23]
2020 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname Carcanet Press [24][25]
2021 Template:Sortname Notes on the Sonnets Penned in the Margins [26][27]
2022 Template:Sortname All the Men I Never Married Seren Books [28][29]
2023 Jason Allen-Paisant Self-Portrait as Othello Carcanet Press [30]
2024 Victoria Chang With My Back to the World Corsair [31]

Best First Collection

Forward Prizes for Best First Poetry Collection
Year Author Title Publisher Ref.
1992 Template:Sortname Kid Faber and Faber
1993 Template:Sortname Nil Nil Faber and Faber
1994 Template:Sortname Progeny of Air Peepal Tree Press
1995 Template:Sortname Breathe Now, Breathe Enitharmon Press
1996 Template:Sortname The Thing in the Gap Stone Stile Faber and Faber
1997 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname Picador
1998 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname Picador
1999 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname Bloodaxe Books
2000 Template:Sortname In The Rialto
2001 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname Picador
2002 Template:Sortname Touching the Bones The Gallery Press
2003 Template:Sortname Fire Stations Anvil Press Poetry
2004 Template:Sortname These Days Jonathan Cape
2005 Template:Sortname Intimates Jonathan Cape
2006 Template:Sortname Countries of the Body Aark Arts
2007 Template:Sortname Look We Have Coming to Dover! Faber and Faber [8]
2008 Template:Sortname Sunday at the Skin Launderette Seren Books
2009 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname Faber and Faber
2010 Template:Sortname Berg Seren Books
2011 Template:Sortname Sidereal Picador
2012 Template:Sortname 81 Austerities [12]
2013 Template:Sortname Dear Boy Faber and Faber
2014 Template:Sortname Black Country Chatto & Windus
2015 Template:Sortname Small Hands Liverpool University Press
2016 Template:Sortname Wife Peepal Tree Press [18]
2017 Template:Sortname Night Sky with Exit Wounds Jonathan Cape [32]
2018 Template:Sortname Shrines of Upper Austria Carcanet Press [20]
2019 Template:Sortname If All the World and Love Were Young Penguin Books
2020 Template:Sortname RENDANG Granta [24]
2021 Template:Sortname Poor Penguin Poetry [26]
2022 Template:Sortname Amnion Granta [28]
2023 Momtaza Mehri Bad Diaspora Poems Jonathan Cape [33]
2024 Marjorie Lotfi The Wrong Person to Ask Bloodaxe [31]

Best Single Poem

Forward Prizes for Best Single Poetry
Year Author Title Publication Ref.
1992 Template:Sortname "Black Bottom"
1993 Template:Sortname "Judith"
1994 Template:Sortname "Autumn"
1995 Template:Sortname "In Honour of Love"
1996 Template:Sortname "The Graduates"
1997 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
1998 Template:Sortname "Envying Owen Beattie"
1999 Template:Sortname "Twenty-five Laments for Iraq"
2000 Template:Sortname "The Death of Descartes"
2001 Template:Sortname "The Lammas Hireling"
2002 Template:Sortname "She is in the Past, She has this Grace" The Shop
2003 Template:Sortname "The Fox in the National Museum of Wales" Poetry London
2004 Template:Sortname "Look We Have Coming to Dover!" Poetry Review
2005 Template:Sortname "Liverpool Disappears for a Billionth of a Second" The North
2006 Template:Sortname "Fantasia on a Theme of James Wright" Poetry Review
2007 Template:Sortname "Dunt" Poetry London [8]
2008 Template:Sortname "Love Poem for Natalie 'Tusja' Beridze" Poetry Review
2009 Template:Sortname "At Roane Head"
2010 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
2011 Template:Sortname "To a Nightingale" London Review of Books
2012 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname [12]
2013 Template:Sortname "The Metric System" The Warwick Review
2014 Template:Sortname "In a Restaurant" The Bridport Prize
2015 Template:Sortname "The Mighty Hudson" TLS
2016 Template:Sortname "Joy" PN Review [18]
2017 Template:Sortname "The Plenty of Nothing" PN Review [34]
2018 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname Granta [20]
2019 Template:Sortname "Forty Names" PN Review
2020 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname Magma [24]
2021 Template:Sortname "Pages 22–29" an excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure Poetry London [26]
2022 Template:Sortname "Up Late" Granta [28]
2023 Malika Booker "Libation" Poetry Review [35]
2024 Cindy Juyoung Ok "Ward of One" Poetry London [36]

See also

References

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External links

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