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2021
Winner
Poor by Caleb Femi

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Bird of Winter by Alice Hiller
Honorifics by Cynthia Miller
Comic Timing by Holly Pester
Rotten Days in Late Summer by Ralf Webb
2020
Winner
RENDANG by Will Harris

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Shine, Darling by Ella Frears
My Darling from the Lions by Rachel Long
Magnolia 木蘭 by Nina Minya Powles
Citadel by Martha Sprackland
2019
Winner
If All the World and Love Were Young by Stephen Sexton
 
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The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus
Surge by Jay Bernard
Truth Street by David Cain
Significant Other by Isabel Galleymore
2018
Winner
Shrines of Upper Austria by Phoebe Power

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Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar
Jinx by Abigail Parry
Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting by Shivanee Ramlochan
Soho by Richard Scott
2017
Winner
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

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Psalmody by Maria Apichella
Make Us All Islands by Richard Georges
Raking Light by Eric Langley
Kingdom of Gravity by Nick Makoha
2016
Winner
Wife by Tiphanie Yanique

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Disko Bay by Nancy Campbell
Distance by Ron Carey
Tonguit by Harry Giles
Every Little Sound by Ruby Robinson
2015
Winner
Small Hands by Mona Arshi

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Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe
An Aviary of Small Birds by Karen McCarthy Woolf
Physical by Andrew McMillan
Blood Work by Matthew Siegel
2014
Winner
Black Country by Liz Berry

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Bright Travellers by Fiona Benson
Moontide by Niall Campbell
The Invention of Fireworks by Beatrice Garland
Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting by Kevin Powers
Grun-tu-molani by Vidyan Ravinthiran
2013
Winner
Dear Boy by Emily Berry

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She Inserts the Key by Marianne Burton
Oswald’s Book of Hours by Steve Ely
Chick by Hannah Lowe
Accurate Measurements by Adam White
2012
Winner
81 Austerities by Sam Riviere

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The Twelve Foot Neon Woman by Loretta Collins Klobah
Clueless Dogs by Rhian Edwards
Stalker by Lucy Hamilton
Breaking Silence by Jacob Sam-La Rose
2011
Winner
Sidereal by Rachael Boast

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Loudness by Judy Brown
Tokaido Road by Nancy Gaffield
Confer by Ahren Warner
Waterloo Teeth by John Whale
Sound Archive by Nerys Williams
2010
Winner
Berg by Hilary Menos

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Running the Dusk by Christian Campbell
How to Pour Madness into a Teacup by Abegail Morley
Learning Gravity by Helen Oswald
A Curious Shipwreck by Steve Spence
New Light for the Old Dark by Sam Willetts
2009
Winner
The Striped World by Emma Jones

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The Missing by Sian Hughes
Moonrise by Meirion Jordan
Furniture by Lorraine Mariner
Natural Mechanical by JO Morgan
Halflife by Meghan O'Rourke
​2008
Winner
Sunday at the Skin Launderette by Kathryn Simmonds

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Los Alamos Mon Amour by Simon Barraclough
Fear of Thunder by Andrew Forster
Public Dream by Frances Leviston
The Night Trotsky Came to Stay by Allison McVety
Hidden River by Stephanie Norgate
2007
Winner
Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra

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Twenty Four Preludes and Fugues on Dimitri Shostakovich by Joanna Boulter
Galatea by Melanie Challenger
Andraste’s Hair by Eleanor Rees
2006
Winner
Countries of the Body by Tishani Doshi

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Impossible Objects by Bill Greenwell
Call Centre Love Song by Ian Gregson
Autumnologist by Anne Ryland
Stranded in Sub-Atomica by Tim Turnbull
Boys’ Night Out in the Afternoon by Tim Wells
2005
Winner
Intimates by Helen Farish

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To a Fault by Nick Laird
Lucky Day by Richard Price
Scattering Eva by James Sheard
Marabou by Jane Yeh
2004
Winner
These Days by Leontia Flynn

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The Never-Never by Kathryn Gray
Ground Water by Matthew Hollis
Walking the Animals by Carola Luther
The Brink by Jacob Polley
2003
Winner
Fire Stations by AB Jackson

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Salt Water Creek by Rhian Gallagher
A Better Life by John McAuliffe
Circumnavigation by Jane Routh
Fields Away by Sarah Wardle
2002
Winner
Touching the Bones by Tom French

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Swaledale Sketchbook by Chris Considine
The Basics by Stuart Pickford
In Dr No’s Garden by Henry Shukman
Crossing the Outskirts by Julian Turner
2001
Winner
Panoramic Lounge-Bar by John Stammers

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Nevermore by Andrew McNeillie
The Nowhere Birds by Caitriona O'Reilly
The New Bride by Catherine Smith
At Home in the Dark by Greta Stoddart
2000
Winner
In by Andrew Waterhouse

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The Heel of Bernadette by Colette Bryce
Astronaut by Brian Henry
Femenismo by Joanne Limburg
The Blue Book by Owen Sheers
1999
Winner
The Man in the White Suit by Nick Drake

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Thirst by Matthew Caley
How to Disappear by Amanda Dalton
A Mesh of Wires by Christopher North
The Garden of Slender Trust by Christiania Whitehead
1998
Winner
The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See you by Paul Farley

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From a Benediction by Olivia Byard
The Red Wardrobe by Sarah Corbett
Tattoos for Mothers Day by Jean Sprackland
Thirst by David Wheatley
1997
Winner
A Painted Field by Robin Robertson

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No Theatre by Jane Draycott
Blizzard by Matthew Francis
No Hiding Place by Tracey Herd
Yeah Yeah Yeah by Roddy Lumsden
1996
Winner
Slattern by Kate Clanchy

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The Shuttered Eye by Julia Copus
The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile by Alice Oswald
The Glass Enclosure by Ian Pople
1995
Winner
Breathe Now, Breathe by Jane Duran

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Liar, Jones by Maggie Hannan
Parables and Faxes by Gwyneth Lewis
The ‘O’o’a’a’ Bird by Justin Quinn
The Memory Tray by Deryn Rees-Jones
1994
Winner
Progeny of Air by Kwame Dawes

Shortlist
The Brown Parrots of Providencia by Fergus Allen
Night Photograph by Lavinia Greenlaw
The History of Rain by Conor O'Callaghan
Winners
1993
Nil Nil by Don Paterson

1992
Kid by Simon Armitage