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2021

Winner
​The Kids by Hannah Lowe

Shortlist
All the Names Given by Raymond Antrobus
A Blood Condition by Kayo Chingonyi
Eat Or We Both Starve by Victoria Kennefick
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2020

Winner
The Historians by Eavan Boland

Shortlist
The Air Year by Caroline Bird
My Darling from the Lions by Rachel Long
Citadel by Martha Sprackland
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2019

Winner
Fleche by Mary Jean Chan

Shortlist
Surge by Jay Bernard
The Mizzy by Paul Farley
Reckless Paper Birds by John McCullough
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2018

Winner
Assurances by JO Morgan

Shortlist
Us by Zaffar Kunial
Soho by Richard Scott
Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan​
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2017

Winner
Inside the Wave by Helen Dunmore

Shortlist
Kumukanda by Kayo Chingonyi
On Balance by Sinéad Morrissey
Useful Verses by Richard Osmond
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2016

Winner
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
 
Shortlist
Sunshine by Melissa Lee-Houghton
Say Something Back by Denise Riley
Let Them Eat Chaos by Kae Tempest
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2015

Winner
40 Sonnets by Don Paterson
 
Shortlist
Physical by Andrew McMillan
The Observances by Kate Miller
Talking Dead by Neil Rollinson
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2014

Winner
My Family and Other Superheroes by Jonathan Edwards
 
Shortlist
The Whole and Rain-domed Universe by Colette Bryce
A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde by Lavinia Greenlaw
The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion by Kei Miller
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2013

Winner
Drysalter by Michael Symmons Roberts
 
Shortlist
Dante, The Divine Comedy by Clive James
Division Street by Helen Mort
Hill of Doors by Robin Robertson
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2012

Winner
The Overhaul by Kathleen Jamie
 
Shortlist
Bee Journal by Sean Borodale
The World’s Two Smallest Humans by Julia Copus
People Who Like Meatballs by Selima Hill
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2011

Winner
The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy
 
Shortlist
Night by David Harsent
Fiere by Jackie Kay
November by Sean O'Brien
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2010

Winner
Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott
 
Shortlist
Standard Midland by Roy Fisher
The Wrecking Light by Robin Robertson
New Light for the Old Dark by Sam Willetts
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2009

Winner
A Scattering by Christopher Reid
 
Shortlist
Angels over Elsinore by Clive James
One Eye’d Leigh by Katherine Kilalea
Darwin: A Life in Poems by Ruth Padel
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2008

Winner
The Broken Word by Adam Foulds
 
Shortlist
For All We Know by Ciaran Carson
Sunday at the Skin Launderette by Kathryn Simmonds
Salvation Jane by Greta Stoddart
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2007

Winner
Tilt by Jean Sprackland
 
Shortlist
The Speed of Dark by Ian Duhig
The Space of Joy by John Fuller
Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra
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2006

Winner
Letter to Patience by John Haynes
 
Shortlist
The Book of Blood by Vicki Feaver
District and Circle by Seamus Heaney
Dear Room by Hugo Williams
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Whitbread Poetry Award

2005

Winner
Cold Calls by Christopher Logue
 
Shortlist
Legion by David Harsent
Lucky Day by Richard Price
Marabou by Jane Yeh
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2004

Winner
Corpus by Michael Symmons Roberts
 
Shortlist
These Days by Leontia Flynn
Ghosts by John Fuller
Ground Water by Matthew Hollis
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2003

Winner
Landing Light by Don Paterson
 
Shortlist
Minsk by Lavinia Greenlaw
Ink Stone by Jamie McKendrick
Hard Water by Jean Sprackland
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2002

Winner
The Ice Age by Paul Farley
 
Shortlist
Something for the Ghosts by David Constantine
Voodoo Shop by Ruth Padel
The Beautiful Lie by Sheenagh Pugh
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2001

Winner
Bunny by Selima Hill
 
Shortlist
The Age of Cardboard and String by Charles Boyle
If I Don’t Know by Wendy Cope
Panoramic Lounge-Bar by John Stammers
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2000

Winner
The Asylum Dance by John Burnside
 
Shortlist
Conjure by Michael Donaghy
Collected Poems by RF Langley
Floods by Maurice Riordan
Granny Scarecrow by Anne Stevenson
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1999

Winner
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
 
Shortlist
Approximately Nowhere by Michael Hofmann
Alcestis by Ted Hughes
The Eyes by Don Paterson
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1998

Winner
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
 
Shortlist
The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See you by Paul Farley
The Wasting Game by Philip Gross
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1997

Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes
 
Shortlist
CloudCuckooLand by Simon Armitage
Sugar-Paper blue by Ruth Fainlight
Violet by Selima Hill
Assembling a Ghost by Peter Redgrove
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1996

Winner
The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney
 
Shortlist
Safe As Houses by UA Fanthorpe
The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile by Alice Oswald
Expanded Universes by Christopher Reid
The Wound-dresser’s Dream by Pauline Stainer
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1995

Winner
Gunpowder by Bernard O'Donoghue
 
Shortlist
The Dead Sea Poems by Simon Armitage
The Shadow of Hiroshima and other film/poems by Tony Harrison
Rest for the Wicked by Glyn Maxwell
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1994

Winner
Out of Danger by James Fenton

1993

Winner
Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy

1992

Winner
The Gaze of the Gorgon by Tony Harrison

1991

Winner
Gorse Flies by Michael Longley
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1990

Winner
Daddy, Daddy by Paul Durcan

1989

Winner
Shibboleth by Michael Donaghy

1988

Winner
The Automatic Oracle by Peter Porter

1987

Winner
The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney

1986

Winner
Stet by Peter Reading
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1985

Winner
Elegies by Douglas Dunn

1971

Winner
Mercian Hymns by Geoffrey Hill
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