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2024

Winner
The Wrong Person to Ask by Marjorie Lotfi

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I cannot be good until you say it by Sanah Ahsan
Inheritance by Jasmine Cooray
American Anthem by Kelly Michels
Food for the Dead by Charlotte Shevchenko Knight
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2023

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Bad Diaspora Poems by Momtaza Mehri

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ISDAL by Susannah Dickey
A Method, A Path by Rowan Evans
Cane, Corn & Gully by Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa
Cowboy by Kandace Siobhan Walker
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2022

Winner
Amnion by Stephanie Sy-Quia

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Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd
The English Summer by Holly Hopkins
Some Integrity by Padraig Regan
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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2013

Winner
Dear Boy by Emily Berry

Shortlist
She Inserts the Key by Marianne Burton
Oswald’s Book of Hours by Steve Ely
Chick by Hannah Lowe
Accurate Measurements by Adam White
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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
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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
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2010

Winner
Berg by Hilary Menos

Shortlist
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
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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
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2008

Winner
Sunday at the Skin Launderette by Kathryn Simmonds

Shortlist
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
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2007

Winner
Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra

Shortlist
Twenty Four Preludes and Fugues on Dimitri Shostakovich by Joanna Boulter
Galatea by Melanie Challenger
Andraste’s Hair by Eleanor Rees
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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
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2005

Winner
Intimates by Helen Farish

Shortlist
To a Fault by Nick Laird
Lucky Day by Richard Price
Scattering Eva by James Sheard
Marabou by Jane Yeh
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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
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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
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2002

Winner
Touching the Bones by Tom French

Shortlist
Swaledale Sketchbook by Chris Considine
The Basics by Stuart Pickford
In Dr No’s Garden by Henry Shukman
Crossing the Outskirts by Julian Turner
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2001

Winner
Panoramic Lounge-Bar by John Stammers

Shortlist
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
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2000

Winner
In by Andrew Waterhouse

Shortlist
The Heel of Bernadette by Colette Bryce
Astronaut by Brian Henry
Femenismo by Joanne Limburg
The Blue Book by Owen Sheers
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1999

Winner
The Man in the White Suit by Nick Drake

Shortlist
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
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1998

Winner
The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See you by Paul Farley

Shortlist
From a Benediction by Olivia Byard
The Red Wardrobe by Sarah Corbett
Tattoos for Mothers Day by Jean Sprackland
Thirst by David Wheatley
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1997

Winner
A Painted Field by Robin Robertson

Shortlist
No Theatre by Jane Draycott
Blizzard by Matthew Francis
No Hiding Place by Tracey Herd
Yeah Yeah Yeah by Roddy Lumsden
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1996

Winner
Slattern by Kate Clanchy

Shortlist
The Shuttered Eye by Julia Copus
The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile by Alice Oswald
The Glass Enclosure by Ian Pople
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1995

Winner
Breathe Now, Breathe by Jane Duran

Shortlist
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
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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
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1993

Winner
Nil Nil by Don Paterson
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1992

Winner
Kid by Simon Armitage
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