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2017
James Sheard
The Abandoned Settlements
Cape Poetry
2024
Gboyega Odubanjo
Adam
Faber & Faber
2006
Jane Hirshfield
After
Bloodaxe Books
1994
Gerard Woodward
After the Deafening
Chatto & Windus
2019
Anthony Anaxagorou
After the Formalities
Penned in the Margins
2004
Peter Porter
Afterburner
Picador Poetry
2001
Charles Boyle
The Age of Cardboard & String
Faber & Faber
2017
Jacqueline Saphra
All My Mad Mothers
Nine Arches Press
2014
John Burnside
All One Breath
Cape Poetry
2021
Raymond Antrobus
All the Names Given
Picador Poetry
2018
Terrance Hayes
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins
Penguin Poetry
#0d7490
WINNER
1994
1994
Paul Muldoon
The Annals of Chile
Faber & Faber
1999
Michael Hofmann
Approximately Nowhere
Faber & Faber
2019
Sharon Olds
Arias
Cape Poetry
2000
John Burnside
The Asylum Dance
Cape Poetry
2013
Moniza Alvi
At the Time of Partition
Bloodaxe Books
1999
Anne Carson
Autobiography of Red
Cape Poetry
B
2013
George Szirtes
Bad Machine
Bloodaxe Books
2006
W. N. Herbert
Bad Shaman Blues
Bloodaxe Books
2023
Sharon Olds
Balladz
Cape Poetry
2022
James Conor Patterson
bandit country
Picador Poetry
2015
Sean O’Brien
The Beautiful Librarians
Picador Poetry
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WINNER
2001
2001
Anne Carson
The Beauty of the Husband
Cape Poetry
2015
Rebecca Perry
Beauty/Beauty
Bloodaxe Books
2012
Sean Borodale
Bee Journal
Cape Poetry
2011
Carol Ann Duffy
The Bees
Picador Poetry
1997
Helen Dunmore
Bestiary
Bloodaxe Books
2002
Sinéad Morrissey
Between Here and There
Carcanet Press
1998
Fred D'Aguiar
Bill of Rights
Chatto & Windus
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WINNER
1999
1999
Hugo Williams
Billy’s Rain
Faber & Faber
1998
David Harsent
A Bird’s Idea of Flight
Faber & Faber
#0d7490
WINNER
1998
1998
Ted Hughes
Birthday Letters
Faber & Faber
#0d7490
WINNER
2011
2011
John Burnside
Black Cat Bone
Cape Poetry
2007
Matthew Sweeney
Black Moon
Cape Poetry
2016
Ian Duhig
The Blind Roadmaker
Picador Poetry
2006
Tim Liardet
The Blood Choir
Seren
2021
Kayo Chingonyi
A Blood Condition
Chatto & Windus
1996
Adrian Mitchell
Blue Coffee
Bloodaxe Books
2004
John Hartley Williams
Blues
Cape Poetry
2007
Edwin Morgan
A Book of Lives
Carcanet Press
2000
Roddy Lumsden
The Book of Love
Bloodaxe Books
2000
Thom Gunn
Boss Cupid
Faber & Faber
1997
Derek Walcott
The Bounty
Faber & Faber
1998
Glyn Maxwell
The Breakage
Faber & Faber
1997
Matthew Sweeney
The Bridal Suite
Cape Poetry
2014
Fiona Benson
Bright Travellers
Cape Poetry
2003
Jacob Polley
The Brink
Picador Poetry
2001
Selima Hill
Bunny
Bloodaxe Books
2001
Michael Symmons Roberts
Burning Babylon
Cape Poetry
2009
George Szirtes
The Burning of the Books
Bloodaxe Books
2012
Deryn Rees-Jones
Burying the Wren
Seren
C
2019
Karen Solie
The Caiplie Caves
Picador Poetry
1997
John Hartley Williams
Canada
Bloodaxe Books
2023
Jane Clarke
A Change in the Air
Bloodaxe Books
2015
Claudia Rankine
Citizen
Penguin Poetry
1996
Susan Wicks
The Clever Daughter
Faber & Faber
2007
Fiona Sampson
Common Prayer
Carcanet Press
2000
Michael Donaghy
Conjure
Picador Poetry
2009
Fred D'Aguiar
Continental Shelf
Carcanet Press
2004
Michael Symmons Roberts
Corpus
Cape Poetry
1995
Glyn Wright
Could Have Been Funny
Spike
1993
Moniza Alvi
The Country at My Shoulder
Oxford Poetry / OUP
#0d7490
WINNER
2021
2021
Joelle Taylor
Cunto & Othered Poems
The Westbourne Press
D
1993
Douglas Dunn
Dante’s Drum Kit
Faber & Faber
2012
Paul Farley
The Dark Film
Picador Poetry
#0d7490
WINNER
2002
2002
Alice Oswald
Dart
Faber & Faber
1995
Simon Armitage
The Dead Sea Poems
Faber & Faber
2019
Ilya Kaminsky
Deaf Republic
Faber & Faber
2006
Hugo Williams
Dear Room
Faber & Faber
2012
Simon Armitage
The Death of King Arthur
Faber & Faber
2015
Mark Doty
Deep Lane
Cape Poetry
2020
Sasha Dugdale
Deformations
Carcanet Press
2017
Robert Minhinnick
Diary of the Last Man
Carcanet Press
2018
Fiona Moore
The Distal Point
HappenStance
#0d7490
WINNER
2006
2006
Seamus Heaney
District and Circle
Faber & Faber
2013
Helen Mort
Division Street
Chatto & Windus
1994
Hugo Williams
Dock Leaves
Oxford Poetry / OUP
2001
Sean O’Brien
Downriver
Picador Poetry
1996
Stephen Knight
Dream City Cinema
Bloodaxe Books
2000
Alan Jenkins
The Drift
Chatto & Windus
#0d7490
WINNER
2007
2007
Sean O’Brien
The Drowned Book
Picador Poetry
2013
Michael Symmons Roberts
Drysalter
Cape Poetry
E
2021
Victoria Kennefick
Eat or We Both Starve
Carcanet Press
2024
Rachel Mann
Eleanor Among the Saints
Carcanet Press
2001
Seamus Heaney
Electric Light
Faber & Faber
2022
Zaffar Kunial
England’s Green
Faber & Faber
2022
Fiona Benson
Ephemeron
Cape Poetry
2019
Deryn Rees-Jones
Erato
Seren
2018
Sean O’Brien
Europa
Picador Poetry
2016
Ruby Robinson
Every Little Sound
Pavilion Poetry (Liverpool University Press)
1996
Christopher Reid
Expanded Universes
Faber & Faber
F
2014
Louise Glück
Faithful and Virtuous Night
Carcanet Press
2016
Alice Oswald
Falling Awake
Cape Poetry
2011
Bernard O’Donoghue
Farmers Cross
Faber & Faber
1993
Sharon Olds
The Father
Secker & Warburg
2014
Pascale Petit
Fauverie
Seren
2018
Nick Laird
Feel Free
Faber & Faber
#0d7490
WINNER
2024
2024
Peter Gizzi
Fierce Elegy
Penguin Poetry
#0d7490
WINNER
2014
2014
David Harsent
Fire Songs
Faber & Faber
#0D7490
WINNER
1993
1993
Ciaran Carson
First Language
Gallery Press
1993
Stephen Knight
Flowering Limbs
Bloodaxe Books
2008
Ciaran Carson
For All We Know
Gallery Press
2003
Christopher Reid
For and After
Faber & Faber
1994
W. N. Herbert
Forked Tongue
Bloodaxe Books
1993
Patricia Beer
Friend of Heraclitus
Carcanet Press
2004
Colette Bryce
The Full Indian Rope Trick
Picador Poetry
2008
Robert Crawford
Full Volume
Cape Poetry
G
1995
Michael Longley
The Ghost Orchid
Cape Poetry
2008
Peter Bennet
The Glass Swarm
Flambard Press
#0d7490
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1997
1997
Don Paterson
God’s Gift to Women
Faber & Faber
2011
Esther Morgan
Grace
Bloodaxe Books
2000
Anne Stevenson
Granny Scarecrow
Bloodaxe Books
1999
Paul Durcan
Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil
Harvill Press
1995
Bernard O’Donoghue
Gunpowder
Chatto & Windus
H
2003
Jean Sprackland
Hard Water
Cape Poetry
2012
Jacob Polley
The Havocs
Picador Poetry
2007
Alan Gillis
Hawks and Doves
Gallery Press
1998
Paul Muldoon
Hay
Faber & Faber
1999
Bernard O’Donoghue
Here Nor There
Chatto & Windus
2008
Glyn Maxwell
Hide Now
Picador Poetry
2024
Gustav Parker Hibbett
High Jump as Icarus Story
Banshee Press
2013
Robin Robertson
Hill of Doors
Picador Poetry
2006
Paul Muldoon
Horse Latitudes
Faber & Faber
2020
Glyn Maxwell
How the hell are you
Picador Poetry
#0d7490
WINNER
2020
2020
Bhanu Kapil
How to Wash a Heart
Pavilion Poetry (Liverpool University Press)
2010
Seamus Heaney
Human Chain
Faber & Faber
2005
Pascale Petit
The Huntress
Seren
2023
Fran Lock
Hyena!
Poetry Bus Press
I
2014
Hugo Williams
I Knew the Bride
Faber & Faber
2023
Abigail Parry
I Think We’re Alone Now
Bloodaxe Books
2012
Gillian Clarke
Ice
Carcanet Press
2002
Paul Farley
The Ice Age
Picador Poetry
1994
Eavan Boland
In a Time of Violence
Carcanet Press
2017
Caroline Bird
In These Days of Prohibition
Carcanet Press
2023
Kit Fan
The Ink Cloud Reader
Carcanet Press
2003
Jamie McKendrick
Ink Stone
Faber & Faber
2018
Ailbhe Darcy
Insistence
Bloodaxe Books
2016
J. O. Morgan
Interference Pattern
Cape Poetry
2005
Helen Farish
Intimates
Cape Poetry
J
#0d7490
WINNER
2016
2016
Jacob Polley
Jackself
Picador Poetry
1999
Kathleen Jamie
Jizzen
Picador Poetry
2015
Selima Hill
Jutland
Bloodaxe Books
K
2021
Hannah Lowe
The Kids
Bloodaxe Books
1996
Maura Dooley
Kissing a Bone
Bloodaxe Books
L
2003
Ian Duhig
The Lammas Hireling
Picador Poetry
#0d7490
WINNER
2003
2003
Don Paterson
Landing Light
Faber & Faber
2001
James Lasdun
Landscape with Chainsaw
Cape Poetry
2024
Hannah Copley
Lapwing
Pavilion Poetry (Liverpool University Press)
2014
Ruth Padel
Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth
Chatto & Windus
2005
David Harsent
Legion
Faber & Faber
2014
Kevin Powers
Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting
Sceptre
2008
Maura Dooley
Life Under Water
Bloodaxe Books
2020
Daisy Lafarge
Life Without Air
Granta Poetry
2002
John Burnside
The Light Trap
Cape Poetry
2001
Gillian Allnutt
Lintel
Bloodaxe Books
1997
Fleur Adcock
Looking Back
Oxford Poetry / OUP
#0d7490
WINNER
2015
2015
Sarah Howe
Loop of Jade
Chatto & Windus
2008
Mick Imlah
The Lost Leader
Faber & Faber
2020
Wayne Holloway-Smith
Love Minus Love
Bloodaxe Books
M
2017
Michael Symmons Roberts
Mancunia
Cape Poetry
2003
John F. Deane
Manhandling the Deity
Carcanet Press
2022
Yomi á¹¢ode
Manorism
Penguin Poetry
2023
Eiléan Nà Chuilleanáin
The Map of the World
Gallery Press
1997
Jamie McKendrick
The Marble Fly
Oxford Poetry / OUP
2002
David Harsent
Marriage
Faber & Faber
2020
J. O. Morgan
The Martian’s Regress
Cape Poetry
1993
Carol Ann Duffy
Mean Time
Anvil Press
2007
Mimi Khalvati
The Meanest Flower
Carcanet Press
2016
Anthony V. Capildeo
Measures of Expatriation
Carcanet Press
2000
Anne Carson
Men in the Off Hours
Cape Poetry
2021
Selima Hill
Men Who Feed Pigeons
Bloodaxe Books
1995
Ian Duhig
The Mersey Goldfish
Bloodaxe Books
1994
Peter Porter
Millennial Fables
Oxford Poetry / OUP
2019
Vidyan Ravinthiran
The Million-petalled Flower of Being Here
Bloodaxe Books
2003
Lavinia Greenlaw
Minsk
Faber & Faber
2010
Annie Freud
The Mirabelles
Picador Poetry
2019
Paul Farley
The Mizzy
Picador Poetry
2023
Joe Carrick-Varty
More Sky
Carcanet Press
2005
Sheenagh Pugh
The Movement of Bodies
Seren
2002
Paul Muldoon
Moy Sand and Gravel
Faber & Faber
#0d7490
WINNER
1995
1995
Mark Doty
My Alexandria
Cape Poetry
1998
Jo Shapcott
My Life Asleep
Oxford Poetry / OUP
1994
John Burnside
The Myth of the Twin
Cape Poetry
N
1997
Gillian Allnutt
Nantucket and the Angel
Bloodaxe Books
2004
Kathryn Gray
The Never Never
Seren
2010
Sam Willetts
New Light for the Old Dark
Cape Poetry
#0d7490
WINNER
2008
2008
Jen Hadfield
Nigh-No-Place
Bloodaxe Books
2011
David Harsent
Night
Faber & Faber
#0d7490
WINNER
2017
2017
Ocean Vuong
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Cape Poetry
1993
Don Paterson
Nil Nil
Faber & Faber
2003
Billy Collins
Nine Horses
Picador Poetry
2017
Douglas Dunn
The Noise of a Fly
Faber & Faber
2015
Tracey Herd
Not In This World
Bloodaxe Books
2011
Sean O’Brien
November
Picador Poetry
O
1998
Jackie Kay
Off Colour
Bloodaxe Books
2009
Sharon Olds
One Secret Thing
Cape Poetry
1996
Ciaran Carson
Opera Et Cetera
Gallery Press
2002
Geoffrey Hill
The Orchards of Syon
Penguin Poetry
1993
James Fenton
Out of Danger
Penguin Poetry
2003
Bernard O’Donoghue
Outliving
Chatto & Windus
2009
Jane Draycott
Over
Carcanet Press
2012
Kathleen Jamie
The Overhaul
Picador Poetry
P
2012
Jorie Graham
P L A C E
Carcanet Press
#0d7490
WINNER
2013
2013
Sinéad Morrissey
Parallax
Carcanet Press
2024
Helen Farish
The Penny Dropping
Bloodaxe Books
2007
Sophie Hannah
Pessimism for Beginners
Carcanet Press
2010
Brian Turner
Phantom Noise
Bloodaxe Books
2007
Sarah Maguire
The Pomegranates of Kandahar
Chatto & Windus
#0d7490
WINNER
2019
2019
Roger Robinson
A Portable Paradise
Peepal Tree Press
2020
Natalie Diaz
Postcolonial Love Poem
Faber & Faber
1995
Jackie Wills
Powder Tower
Arc Publications
2011
Leontia Flynn
Profit and Loss
Cape Poetry
2007
Frances Leviston
Public Dream
Picador Poetry
Q
1994
Kathleen Jamie
The Queen of Sheba
Bloodaxe Books
2022
Victoria Adukwei Bulley
Quiet
Faber & Faber
R
2017
Leontia Flynn
The Radio
Cape Poetry
2013
Daljit Nagra
Ramayana: A Retelling
Faber & Faber
2021
Michael Symmons Roberts
Ransom
Cape Poetry
#0d7490
WINNER
2005
2005
Carol Ann Duffy
Rapture
Picador Poetry
2013
Anne Carson
Red Doc >
Cape Poetry
1998
Sarah Corbett
The Red Wardrobe
Seren
2006
Penelope Shuttle
Redgrove’s Wife
Bloodaxe Books
#0d7490
WINNER
2004
2004
George Szirtes
Reel
Bloodaxe Books
1998
Ruth Padel
Rembrandt Would Have Loved You
Chatto & Windus
2016
Katharine Towers
The Remedies
Picador Poetry
2020
Will Harris
RENDANG
Granta Poetry
1999
C. K. Williams
Repair
Bloodaxe Books
1995
Glyn Maxwell
Rest for the Wicked
Bloodaxe Books
2024
Katrina Porteous
Rhizodont
Bloodaxe Books
2004
Tom Paulin
The Road to Inver
Faber & Faber
2022
Denise Saul
The Room Between Us
Pavilion Poetry (Liverpool University Press)
2002
E. A. Markham
A Rough Climate
Anvil Press
2010
Fiona Sampson
Rough Music
Carcanet Press
S
2016
Denise Riley
Say Something Back
Picador Poetry
2024
Carl Phillips
Scattered Snows, to the North
Carcanet Press
2009
Christopher Reid
A Scattering
Areté
2023
Ishion Hutchinson
School of Instructions
Faber & Faber
2016
Bernard O’Donoghue
The Seasons of Cullen Church
Faber & Faber
2010
Simon Armitage
Seeing Stars
Faber & Faber
#0d7490
WINNER
2023
2023
Jason Allen-Paisant
Self-Portrait as Othello
Carcanet Press
2020
Ella Frears
Shine Darling
Offord Road Books
2018
Phoebe Power
Shrines of Upper Austria
Carcanet Press
2024
Raymond Antrobus
Signs, Music
Picador Poetry
2021
Daniel Sluman
single window
Nine Arches Press
2022
Mark Pajak
Slide
Cape Poetry
2004
Michael Longley
Snow Water
Cape Poetry
2017
Roddy Lumsden
So Glad I’m Me
Bloodaxe Books
2018
Richard Scott
Soho
Faber & Faber
2004
Ruth Padel
The Soho Leopard
Chatto & Windus
2020
Shane McCrae
Sometimes I Never Suffered
Corsair Poetry
2015
Don Paterson
40 Sonnets
Faber & Faber
#0d7490
WINNER
2022
2022
Anthony Joseph
Sonnets for Albert
Bloomsbury Poetry
2013
Dannie Abse
Speak, Old Parrot
Hutchinson Random House
2001
Geoffrey Hill
Speech! Speech!
Penguin Poetry
2007
Ian Duhig
The Speed of Dark
Picador Poetry
1996
Seamus Heaney
The Spirit Level
Faber & Faber
1994
Geoffrey Lehman
Spring Forest
Faber & Faber
#0d7490
WINNER
2012
2012
Sharon Olds
Stag’s Leap
Cape Poetry
2014
Michael Longley
The Stairwell
Cape Poetry
2023
Katie Farris
Standing in the Forest of Being Alive
Pavilion Poetry (Liverpool University Press)
2005
Sinéad Morrissey
The State of the Prisons
Carcanet Press
2005
John Stammers
Stolen Love Behaviour
Picador Poetry
2021
Kevin Young
Stones
Cape Poetry
1996
John Fuller
Stones and Fires
Chatto & Windus
#0d7490
WINNER
1996
1996
Les Murray
Subhuman Redneck Poems
Carcanet Press
2009
Eiléan Nà Chuilleanáin
The Sun-fish
Gallery Press
2019
Jay Bernard
Surge
Chatto & Windus
2006
Robin Robertson
Swithering
Picador Poetry
T
2005
Polly Clark
Take Me With You
Bloodaxe Books
2008
Mark Doty
Theories and Apparitions
Cape Poetry
1996
Alice Oswald
The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile
Oxford Poetry / OUP
2022
Philip Gross
The Thirteenth Angel
Bloodaxe Books
#0d7490
WINNER
2018
2018
Hannah Sullivan
Three Poems
Faber & Faber
2009
Sinéad Morrissey
Through the Square Window
Carcanet Press
2000
Derek Walcott
Tiepolo’s Hound
Faber & Faber
1999
Michael Laskey
The Tightrope Wedding
Smith|Doorstop
2011
Daljit Nagra
Tippoo Sultan’s Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!!
Faber & Faber
2024
Karen McCarthy Woolf
Top Doll
Dialogue Books
2017
Tara Bergin
The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx
Carcanet Press
2006
Paul Farley
Tramp in Flames
Picador Poetry
1993
Les Murray
Translations from the Natural World
Carcanet Press
2004
Kathleen Jamie
The Tree House
Picador Poetry
1995
Katherine Pierpoint
Truffle Beds
Faber & Faber
2006
Simon Armitage
Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid
Faber & Faber
U
2002
Simon Armitage
The Universal Home Doctor
Faber & Faber
2018
Zaffar Kunial
Us
Faber & Faber
V
2019
Fiona Benson
Vertigo and Ghost
Cape Poetry
1997
Selima Hill
Violet
Bloodaxe Books
2016
Rachael Boast
Void Studies
Picador Poetry
2002
Ruth Padel
Voodoo Shop
Chatto & Windus
W
2018
Tracy K. Smith
Wade in the Water
Penguin Poetry
2015
Les Murray
Waiting for the Past
Carcanet Press
1994
Tom Paulin
Walking a Line
Faber & Faber
2013
Maurice Riordan
The Water Stealer
Faber & Faber
#0d7490
WINNER
2009
2009
Philip Gross
The Water Table
Bloodaxe Books
2005
Gerard Woodward
We Were Pedestrians
Chatto & Windus
#0d7490
WINNER
2000
2000
Michael Longley
The Weather in Japan
Cape Poetry
2009
Alice Oswald
Weeds & Wild Flowers
Faber & Faber
2009
Hugo Williams
West End Final
Faber & Faber
2010
Pascale Petit
What the Water Gave Me
Bloodaxe Books
2014
Arundhathi Subramaniam
When God is a Traveller
Bloodaxe Books
#0d7490
WINNER
2010
2010
Derek Walcott
White Egrets
Faber & Faber
1998
Ken Smith
Wild Root
Bloodaxe Books
2022
Jemma Borg
Wilder
Pavilion Poetry (Liverpool University Press)
1999
Tom Paulin
The Wind Dog
Faber & Faber
2005
Alice Oswald
Woods etc.
Faber & Faber
1995
Maurice Riordan
A Word from the Loki
Faber & Faber
1997
Peter Reading
Work in Regress
Bloodaxe Books
2015
Tim Liardet
The World Before Snow
Carcanet Press
2012
Julia Copus
The World’s Two Smallest Humans
Faber & Faber
1999
Carol Ann Duffy
The World’s Wife
Picador Poetry
2010
Robin Robertson
The Wrecking Light
Picador Poetry
Y
2021
Jack Underwood
A Year in the New Life
Faber & Faber
2000
Douglas Dunn
The Year’s Afternoon
Faber & Faber
2008
Stephen Romer
Yellow Studio
Carcanet Press
2010
John Haynes
You
Seren
Z
2001
Pascale Petit
The Zoo Father
Seren