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Raymond Antrobus
Signs, Music
Picador Poetry
Hannah Copley
Lapwing
Pavilion Poetry (Liverpool University Press)
Helen Farish
The Penny Dropping
Bloodaxe Books
Peter Gizzi
Fierce Elegy
Penguin Poetry
#0d7490
WINNER
Gustav Parker Hibbett
High Jump as Icarus Story
Banshee Press
Rachel Mann
Eleanor Among the Saints
Carcanet Press
Gboyega Odubanjo
Adam
Faber & Faber
Carl Phillips
Scattered Snows, to the North
Carcanet Press
Katrina Porteous
Rhizodont
Bloodaxe Books
Karen McCarthy Woolf
Top Doll
Dialogue Books
Judges
Mimi Khalvati
CHAIR
Hannah Sullivan
Anthony Joseph
2023
Shortlist
Jason Allen-Paisant
Self-Portrait as Othello
Carcanet Press
#0d7490
WINNER
Joe Carrick-Varty
More Sky
Carcanet Press
Jane Clarke
A Change in the Air
Bloodaxe Books
Kit Fan
The Ink Cloud Reader
Carcanet Press
Katie Farris
Standing in the Forest of Being Alive
Pavilion Poetry (Liverpool University Press)
Ishion Hutchinson
School of Instructions
Faber & Faber
Fran Lock
Hyena!
Poetry Bus Press
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
The Map of the World
Gallery Press
Sharon Olds
Balladz
Cape Poetry
Abigail Parry
I Think We're Alone Now
Bloodaxe Books
Judges
Paul Muldoon
CHAIR
Denise Saul
Sasha Dugdale
2022
Shortlist
Fiona Benson
Ephemeron
Cape Poetry
Jemma Borg
Wilder
Pavilion Poetry (Liverpool University Press)
Victoria Adukwei Bulley
Quiet
Faber & Faber
Philip Gross
The Thirteenth Angel
Bloodaxe Books
Anthony Joseph
Sonnets for Albert
Bloomsbury Poetry
#0d7490
WINNER
Zaffar Kunial
England's Green
Faber & Faber
Mark Pajak
Slide
Cape Poetry
James Conor Patterson
bandit country
Picador Poetry
Denise Saul
The Room Between Us
Pavilion Poetry (Liverpool University Press)
Yomi Ṣode
Manorism
Penguin Poetry
Judges
Jean Sprackland
CHAIR
Roger Robinson
Hannah Lowe
2021
Shortlist
Raymond Antrobus
All the Names Given
Picador Poetry
Kayo Chingonyi
A Blood Condition
Chatto & Windus
Selima Hill
Men Who Feed Pigeons
Bloodaxe Books
Victoria Kennefick
Eat or We Both Starve
Carcanet Press
Hannah Lowe
The Kids
Bloodaxe Books
Michael Symmons Roberts
Ransom
Cape Poetry
Daniel Sluman
single window
Nine Arches Press
Joelle Taylor
Cunto & Othered Poems
The Westbourne Press
#0d7490
WINNER
Jack Underwood
A Year in the New Life
Faber & Faber
Kevin Young
Stones
Cape Poetry
Judges
Glyn Maxwell
CHAIR
Zaffar Kunial
Caroline Bird
2020
Shortlist
Natalie Diaz
Postcolonial Love Poem
Faber & Faber
Sasha Dugdale
Deformations
Carcanet Press
Ella Frears
Shine Darling
Offord Road Books
Will Harris
RENDANG
Granta Poetry
Wayne Holloway-Smith
Love Minus Love
Bloodaxe Books
Bhanu Kapil
How to Wash a Heart
Pavilion Poetry (Liverpool University Press)
#0d7490
WINNER
Daisy Lafarge
Life Without Air
Granta Poetry
Glyn Maxwell
How the hell are you
Picador Poetry
Shane McCrae
Sometimes I Never Suffered
Corsair Poetry
J. O. Morgan
The Martian's Regress
Cape Poetry
Judges
Lavinia Greenlaw
CHAIR
Andrew McMillan
Mona Arshi
2019
Shortlist
Anthony Anaxagorou
After the Formalities
Penned in the Margins
Fiona Benson
Vertigo and Ghost
Cape Poetry
Jay Bernard
Surge
Chatto & Windus
Paul Farley
The Mizzy
Picador Poetry
Ilya Kaminsky
Deaf Republic
Faber & Faber
Sharon Olds
Arias
Cape Poetry
Vidyan Ravinthiran
The Million-petalled Flower of Being Here
Bloodaxe Books
Deryn Rees-Jones
Erato
Seren
Roger Robinson
A Portable Paradise
Peepal Tree Press
#0d7490
WINNER
Karen Solie
The Caiplie Caves
Picador Poetry
Judges
John Burnside
CHAIR
Nick Makoha
Sarah Howe
2018
Shortlist
Ailbhe Darcy
Insistence
Bloodaxe Books
Terrance Hayes
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins
Penguin Poetry
Zaffar Kunial
Us
Faber & Faber
Nick Laird
Feel Free
Faber & Faber
Fiona Moore
The Distal Point
HappenStance
Sean O’Brien
Europa
Picador Poetry
Phoebe Power
Shrines of Upper Austria
Carcanet Press
Richard Scott
Soho
Faber & Faber
Tracy K. Smith
Wade in the Water
Penguin Poetry
Hannah Sullivan
Three Poems
Faber & Faber
#0d7490
WINNER
Judges
Sinéad Morrissey
CHAIR
Clare Pollard
Daljit Nagra
2017
Shortlist
Tara Bergin
The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx
Carcanet Press
Caroline Bird
In These Days of Prohibition
Carcanet Press
Douglas Dunn
The Noise of a Fly
Faber & Faber
Leontia Flynn
The Radio
Cape Poetry
Roddy Lumsden
So Glad I'm Me
Bloodaxe Books
Robert Minhinnick
Diary of the Last Man
Carcanet Press
Michael Symmons Roberts
Mancunia
Cape Poetry
Jacqueline Saphra
All My Mad Mothers
Nine Arches Press
James Sheard
The Abandoned Settlements
Cape Poetry
Ocean Vuong
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Cape Poetry
#0d7490
WINNER
Judges
W. N. Herbert
CHAIR
Helen Mort
James Lasdun
2016
Shortlist
Rachael Boast
Void Studies
Picador Poetry
Anthony V. Capildeo
Measures of Expatriation
Carcanet Press
Ian Duhig
The Blind Roadmaker
Picador Poetry
J. O. Morgan
Interference Pattern
Cape Poetry
Bernard O’Donoghue
The Seasons of Cullen Church
Faber & Faber
Alice Oswald
Falling Awake
Cape Poetry
Jacob Polley
Jackself
Picador Poetry
#0d7490
WINNER
Denise Riley
Say Something Back
Picador Poetry
Ruby Robinson
Every Little Sound
Pavilion Poetry (Liverpool University Press)
Katharine Towers
The Remedies
Picador Poetry
Judges
Ruth Padel
CHAIR
Alan Gillis
Julia Copus
2015
Shortlist
Mark Doty
Deep Lane
Cape Poetry
Tracey Herd
Not In This World
Bloodaxe Books
Selima Hill
Jutland
Bloodaxe Books
Sarah Howe
Loop of Jade
Chatto & Windus
#0d7490
WINNER
Tim Liardet
The World Before Snow
Carcanet Press
Les Murray
Waiting for the Past
Carcanet Press
Sean O’Brien
The Beautiful Librarians
Picador Poetry
Don Paterson
40 Sonnets
Faber & Faber
Rebecca Perry
Beauty/Beauty
Bloodaxe Books
Claudia Rankine
Citizen
Penguin Poetry
Judges
Pascale Petit
CHAIR
Kei Miller
Ahren Warner
2014
Shortlist
Fiona Benson
Bright Travellers
Cape Poetry
John Burnside
All One Breath
Cape Poetry
Louise Glück
Faithful and Virtuous Night
Carcanet Press
David Harsent
Fire Songs
Faber & Faber
#0d7490
WINNER
Michael Longley
The Stairwell
Cape Poetry
Ruth Padel
Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth
Chatto & Windus
Pascale Petit
Fauverie
Seren
Kevin Powers
Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting
Sceptre
Arundhathi Subramaniam
When God is a Traveller
Bloodaxe Books
Hugo Williams
I Knew the Bride
Faber & Faber
Judges
Helen Dunmore
CHAIR
Fiona Sampson
Sean Borodale
2013
Shortlist
Dannie Abse
Speak, Old Parrot
Hutchinson Random House
Moniza Alvi
At the Time of Partition
Bloodaxe Books
Anne Carson
Red Doc >
Cape Poetry
Sinéad Morrissey
Parallax
Carcanet Press
#0d7490
WINNER
Helen Mort
Division Street
Chatto & Windus
Daljit Nagra
Ramayana: A Retelling
Faber & Faber
Maurice Riordan
The Water Stealer
Faber & Faber
Michael Symmons Roberts
Drysalter
Cape Poetry
Robin Robertson
Hill of Doors
Picador Poetry
George Szirtes
Bad Machine
Bloodaxe Books
Judges
Ian Duhig
CHAIR
Vicki Feaver
Imtiaz Dharker
2012
Shortlist
Simon Armitage
The Death of King Arthur
Faber & Faber
Sean Borodale
Bee Journal
Cape Poetry
Gillian Clarke
Ice
Carcanet Press
Julia Copus
The World's Two Smallest Humans
Faber & Faber
Paul Farley
The Dark Film
Picador Poetry
Jorie Graham
P L A C E
Carcanet Press
Kathleen Jamie
The Overhaul
Picador Poetry
Sharon Olds
Stag's Leap
Cape Poetry
#0d7490
WINNER
Jacob Polley
The Havocs
Picador Poetry
Deryn Rees-Jones
Burying the Wren
Seren
Judges
Carol Ann Duffy
CHAIR
David Morley
Michael Longley
2011
Shortlist
John Burnside
Black Cat Bone
Cape Poetry
#0d7490
WINNER
Carol Ann Duffy
The Bees
Picador Poetry
Leontia Flynn
Profit and Loss
Cape Poetry
David Harsent
Night
Faber & Faber
Esther Morgan
Grace
Bloodaxe Books
Daljit Nagra
Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!!
Faber & Faber
Sean O’Brien
November
Picador Poetry
Bernard O’Donoghue
Farmers Cross
Faber & Faber
Judges
Gillian Clarke
CHAIR
Dennis O’Driscoll
Stephen Knight
2010
Shortlist
Simon Armitage
Seeing Stars
Faber & Faber
Annie Freud
The Mirabelles
Picador Poetry
John Haynes
You
Seren
Seamus Heaney
Human Chain
Faber & Faber
Pascale Petit
What the Water Gave Me
Bloodaxe Books
Robin Robertson
The Wrecking Light
Picador Poetry
Fiona Sampson
Rough Music
Carcanet Press
Brian Turner
Phantom Noise
Bloodaxe Books
Derek Walcott
White Egrets
Faber & Faber
#0d7490
WINNER
Sam Willetts
New Light for the Old Dark
Cape Poetry
Judges
Anne Stevenson
CHAIR
Bernardine Evaristo
Michael Symmons Roberts
2009
Shortlist
Fred D'Aguiar
Continental Shelf
Carcanet Press
Jane Draycott
Over
Carcanet Press
Philip Gross
The Water Table
Bloodaxe Books
#0d7490
WINNER
Sinéad Morrissey
Through the Square Window
Carcanet Press
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
The Sun-fish
Gallery Press
Sharon Olds
One Secret Thing
Cape Poetry
Alice Oswald
Weeds & Wild Flowers
Faber & Faber
Christopher Reid
A Scattering
Areté
George Szirtes
The Burning of the Books
Bloodaxe Books
Hugo Williams
West End Final
Faber & Faber
Judges
Simon Armitage
CHAIR
Colette Bryce
Penelope Shuttle
2008
Shortlist
Moniza Alvi
Europa
Bloodaxe Books
Peter Bennet
The Glass Swarm
Flambard Press
Ciaran Carson
For All We Know
Gallery Press
Robert Crawford
Full Volume
Cape Poetry
Maura Dooley
Life Under Water
Bloodaxe Books
Mark Doty
Theories and Apparitions
Cape Poetry
Jen Hadfield
Nigh-No-Place
Bloodaxe Books
#0d7490
WINNER
Mick Imlah
The Lost Leader
Faber & Faber
Glyn Maxwell
Hide Now
Picador Poetry
Stephen Romer
Yellow Studio
Carcanet Press
Judges
Andrew Motion
CHAIR
Tobias Hill
Lavinia Greenlaw
2007
Shortlist
Ian Duhig
The Speed of Dark
Picador Poetry
Alan Gillis
Hawks and Doves
Gallery Press
Sophie Hannah
Pessimism for Beginners
Carcanet Press
Mimi Khalvati
The Meanest Flower
Carcanet Press
Frances Leviston
Public Dream
Picador Poetry
Sarah Maguire
The Pomegranates of Kandahar
Chatto & Windus
Edwin Morgan
A Book of Lives
Carcanet Press
Sean O’Brien
The Drowned Book
Picador Poetry
#0d7490
WINNER
Fiona Sampson
Common Prayer
Carcanet Press
Matthew Sweeney
Black Moon
Cape Poetry
Judges
Peter Porter
CHAIR
Sujata Bhatt
W. N. Herbert
2006
Shortlist
Simon Armitage
Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid
Faber & Faber
Paul Farley
Tramp in Flames
Picador Poetry
Seamus Heaney
District and Circle
Faber & Faber
#0d7490
WINNER
W. N. Herbert
Bad Shaman Blues
Bloodaxe Books
Jane Hirshfield
After
Bloodaxe Books
Tim Liardet
The Blood Choir
Seren
Paul Muldoon
Horse Latitudes
Faber & Faber
Robin Robertson
Swithering
Picador Poetry
Penelope Shuttle
Redgrove’s Wife
Bloodaxe Books
Hugo Williams
Dear Room
Faber & Faber
Judges
Sean O’Brien
CHAIR
Sophie Hannah
Gwyneth Lewis
2005
Shortlist
Polly Clark
Take Me With You
Bloodaxe Books
Carol Ann Duffy
Rapture
Picador Poetry
#0d7490
WINNER
Helen Farish
Intimates
Cape Poetry
David Harsent
Legion
Faber & Faber
Sinéad Morrissey
The State of the Prisons
Carcanet Press
Alice Oswald
Woods etc.
Faber & Faber
Pascale Petit
The Huntress
Seren
Sheenagh Pugh
The Movement of Bodies
Seren
John Stammers
Stolen Love Behaviour
Picador Poetry
Gerard Woodward
We Were Pedestrians
Chatto & Windus
Judges
David Constantine
CHAIR
Kate Clanchy
Jane Draycott
2004
Shortlist
Colette Bryce
The Full Indian Rope Trick
Picador Poetry
Kathryn Gray
The Never Never
Seren
John Hartley Williams
Blues
Cape Poetry
Kathleen Jamie
The Tree House
Picador Poetry
Michael Longley
Snow Water
Cape Poetry
Ruth Padel
The Soho Leopard
Chatto & Windus
Tom Paulin
The Road to Inver
Faber & Faber
Peter Porter
Afterburner
Picador Poetry
Michael Symmons Roberts
Corpus
Cape Poetry
George Szirtes
Reel
Bloodaxe Books
#0d7490
WINNER
Judges
Douglas Dunn
CHAIR
Carol Rumens
Paul Farley
2003
Shortlist
Billy Collins
Nine Horses
Picador Poetry
John F. Deane
Manhandling the Deity
Carcanet Press
Ian Duhig
The Lammas Hireling
Picador Poetry
Lavinia Greenlaw
Minsk
Faber & Faber
Jamie McKendrick
Ink Stone
Faber & Faber
Bernard O’Donoghue
Outliving
Chatto & Windus
Don Paterson
Landing Light
Faber & Faber
#0d7490
WINNER
Jacob Polley
The Brink
Picador Poetry
Christopher Reid
For and After
Faber & Faber
Jean Sprackland
Hard Water
Cape Poetry
Judges
George Szirtes
CHAIR
David Harsent
Mimi Khalvati
2002
Shortlist
Simon Armitage
The Universal Home Doctor
Faber & Faber
John Burnside
The Light Trap
Cape Poetry
Paul Farley
The Ice Age
Picador Poetry
David Harsent
Marriage
Faber & Faber
Geoffrey Hill
The Orchards of Syon
Penguin Poetry
E. A. Markham
A Rough Climate
Anvil Press
Sinéad Morrissey
Between Here and There
Carcanet Press
Paul Muldoon
Moy Sand and Gravel
Faber & Faber
Alice Oswald
Dart
Faber & Faber
#0d7490
WINNER
Ruth Padel
Voodoo Shop
Chatto & Windus
Judges
Michael Longley
CHAIR
Fred D'Aguiar
Deryn Rees-Jones
2001
Shortlist
Gillian Allnutt
Lintel
Bloodaxe Books
Charles Boyle
The Age of Cardboard & String
Faber & Faber
Anne Carson
The Beauty of the Husband
Cape Poetry
#0d7490
WINNER
Seamus Heaney
Electric Light
Faber & Faber
Geoffrey Hill
Speech! Speech!
Penguin Poetry
Selima Hill
Bunny
Bloodaxe Books
James Lasdun
Landscape with Chainsaw
Cape Poetry
Sean O’Brien
Downriver
Picador Poetry
Pascale Petit
The Zoo Father
Seren
Michael Symmons Roberts
Burning Babylon
Cape Poetry
Judges
Helen Dunmore
CHAIR
Maurice Riordan
John Burnside
2000
Shortlist
John Burnside
The Asylum Dance
Cape Poetry
Anne Carson
Men in the Off Hours
Cape Poetry
Michael Donaghy
Conjure
Picador Poetry
Douglas Dunn
The Year's Afternoon
Faber & Faber
Thom Gunn
Boss Cupid
Faber & Faber
Alan Jenkins
The Drift
Chatto & Windus
Michael Longley
The Weather in Japan
Cape Poetry
#0d7490
WINNER
Roddy Lumsden
The Book of Love
Bloodaxe Books
Anne Stevenson
Granny Scarecrow
Bloodaxe Books
Derek Walcott
Tiepolo's Hound
Faber & Faber
Judges
Paul Muldoon
CHAIR
Kathleen Jamie
Glyn Maxwell
1999
Shortlist
Anne Carson
Autobiography of Red
Cape Poetry
Carol Ann Duffy
The World's Wife
Picador Poetry
Paul Durcan
Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil
Harvill Press
Michael Hofmann
Approximately Nowhere
Faber & Faber
Kathleen Jamie
Jizzen
Picador Poetry
Michael Laskey
The Tightrope Wedding
Smith|Doorstop
Bernard O’Donoghue
Here Nor There
Chatto & Windus
Tom Paulin
The Wind Dog
Faber & Faber
Hugo Williams
Billy's Rain
Faber & Faber
#0d7490
WINNER
C. K. Williams
Repair
Bloodaxe Books
Judges
Blake Morrison
CHAIR
Jamie McKendrick
Selima Hill
1998
Shortlist
Sarah Corbett
The Red Wardrobe
Seren
Fred D'Aguiar
Bill of Rights
Chatto & Windus
David Harsent
A Bird's Idea of Flight
Faber & Faber
Ted Hughes
Birthday Letters
Faber & Faber
#0d7490
WINNER
Jackie Kay
Off Colour
Bloodaxe Books
Glyn Maxwell
The Breakage
Faber & Faber
Paul Muldoon
Hay
Faber & Faber
Ruth Padel
Rembrandt Would Have Loved You
Chatto & Windus
Jo Shapcott
My Life Asleep
Oxford Poetry / OUP
Ken Smith
Wild Root
Bloodaxe Books
Judges
Bernard O’Donoghue
CHAIR
Simon Armitage
Maura Dooley
1997
Shortlist
Fleur Adcock
Looking Back
Oxford Poetry / OUP
Gillian Allnutt
Nantucket and the Angel
Bloodaxe Books
Helen Dunmore
Bestiary
Bloodaxe Books
John Hartley Williams
Canada
Bloodaxe Books
Selima Hill
Violet
Bloodaxe Books
Jamie McKendrick
The Marble Fly
Oxford Poetry / OUP
Don Paterson
God's Gift to Women
Faber & Faber
#0d7490
WINNER
Peter Reading
Work in Regress
Bloodaxe Books
Matthew Sweeney
The Bridal Suite
Cape Poetry
Derek Walcott
The Bounty
Faber & Faber
Judges
Gillian Clarke
CHAIR
Hugo Williams
Sean O’Brien
1996
Shortlist
Ciaran Carson
Opera Et Cetera
Gallery Press
Maura Dooley
Kissing a Bone
Bloodaxe Books
John Fuller
Stones and Fires
Chatto & Windus
Seamus Heaney
The Spirit Level
Faber & Faber
Stephen Knight
Dream City Cinema
Bloodaxe Books
Adrian Mitchell
Blue Coffee
Bloodaxe Books
Les Murray
Subhuman Redneck Poems
Carcanet Press
#0d7490
WINNER
Alice Oswald
The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile
Oxford Poetry / OUP
Christopher Reid
Expanded Universes
Faber & Faber
Susan Wicks
The Clever Daughter
Faber & Faber
Judges
Andrew Motion
CHAIR
Helen Dunmore
Ruth Padel
1995
Shortlist
Simon Armitage
The Dead Sea Poems
Faber & Faber
Mark Doty
My Alexandria
Cape Poetry
#0d7490
WINNER
Ian Duhig
The Mersey Goldfish
Bloodaxe Books
Michael Longley
The Ghost Orchid
Cape Poetry
Glyn Maxwell
Rest for the Wicked
Bloodaxe Books
Bernard O’Donoghue
Gunpowder
Chatto & Windus
Katherine Pierpoint
Truffle Beds
Faber & Faber
Maurice Riordan
A Word from the Loki
Faber & Faber
Jackie Wills
Powder Tower
Arc Publications
Glyn Wright
Could Have Been Funny
Spike
Judges
James Fenton
CHAIR
Liz Lochhead
Maura Dooley
1994
Shortlist
Eavan Boland
In a Time of Violence
Carcanet Press
John Burnside
The Myth of the Twin
Cape Poetry
W. N. Herbert
Forked Tongue
Bloodaxe Books
Kathleen Jamie
The Queen of Sheba
Bloodaxe Books
Geoffrey Lehman
Spring Forest
Faber & Faber
Paul Muldoon
The Annals of Chile
Faber & Faber
#0d7490
WINNER
Tom Paulin
Walking a Line
Faber & Faber
Peter Porter
Millennial Fables
Oxford Poetry / OUP
Hugo Williams
Dock Leaves
Oxford Poetry / OUP
Gerard Woodward
After the Deafening
Chatto & Windus
Judges
Elaine Feinstein
CHAIR
Candia McWilliam
John Fuller
Ciaran Carson
Robert Crawford
1993
Shortlist
Moniza Alvi
The Country at My Shoulder
Oxford Poetry / OUP
Patricia Beer
Friend of Heraclitus
Carcanet Press
Ciaran Carson
First Language
Gallery Press
#0D7490
WINNER
Carol Ann Duffy
Mean Time
Anvil Press
Douglas Dunn
Dante's Drum Kit
Faber & Faber
James Fenton
Out of Danger
Penguin Poetry
Stephen Knight
Flowering Limbs
Bloodaxe Books
Les Murray
Translations from the Natural World
Carcanet Press
Sharon Olds
The Father
Secker & Warburg
Don Paterson
Nil Nil
Faber & Faber
Judges
Peter Porter
CHAIR
John Lucas
Robert Crawford
Edna Longley
Fleur Adcock
