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2017
First Love by Gwendoline Riley

​2016
The Art of Falling by Kim Moore

2015
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
 
2014
Bright Travellers by Fiona Benson
Black Country by Liz Berry
 
2013
A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
 
2012
The Havocs by Jacob Polley
 
2011
Solace by Belinda McKeon
 
2010
Perfect Blue by Kona Macphee
 
2009
London and the South-East by David Szalay
 
2008
On Purpose by Nick Laird
 
2007
Self Help by Edward Docx
 
2006
Woods Etc. by Alice Oswald
 
2005
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
 
2004
The Nerve: Poems by Glyn Maxwell
 
2003
The Drink and Dream Teahouse by Justin Hill
 
2002
At Home in the Dark by Greta Stoddart
 
2001
The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi
 
2000
Jizzen by Kathleen Jamie
 
1999
Shopping by Gavin Kramer
 
1998
God's Gift to Women by Don Paterson
 
1997
Not Her Real Name by Emily Perkins
 
1996
The Queen of Sheba by Kathleen Jamie
 
1995
Their Angel Reach by Livi Michael
 
1994
Feast Days by John Burnside
 
1993
The Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self
 
1992
Madoc: A Mystery by Paul Muldoon
 
1991
The Fog Line by Carol Birch
 
1990
Shibboleth by Michael Donaghy
 
1989
Sea Music by David Profumo
 
1988
Acrimony: Poems by Michael Hofmann
 
1987
Man Descending by Guy Vanderhaeghe
 
1986
A Quiet Gathering by David Scott
 
1985
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
 
1984
In Memory of War: Poems 1968-83 by James Fenton
 
1983
Shuttlecock by Graham Swift
 
1982
Why Brownlee Left by Paul Muldoon
The Strange Museum by Tom Paulin
 
1981
Waiting for the Barbarians by JM Coetzee
 
1980
The Slant Door by George Szirtes
Love-Life by Hugo Williams
 
1979
The Monkey King by Timothy Mo
 
1978
Dreams of the Dead by David Harsent
The Bear Looked Over the Mountain by Kit Wright
 
1977
The Story of the Weasel by Carolyn Slaughter
 
1976
Love or Nothing by Douglas Dunn
 
1975
In the Middle of a Life by Richard B Wright
 
1974
Cannibals and Missionaries and Epistles to Several Persons by John Fuller
 
1973
Pasmore by David Storey
 
1972
The Loiners by Tony Harrison
 
1971
Troubles by JG Farrell
 
1970
King Log by Geoffrey Hill
 
1969
The Junkers by Piers Paul Read
 
1968
Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
 
1967
Remedy is None by William McIlvanney
The Man with the Chocolate Egg by John Noone
 
1966
Nature Within Man by Jon Silkin
 
1965
The Ice Saints by Frank Tuohy
 
1964
The Broken Places: Poems by George MacBeth
Torse 3 Poems 1949-1961 by Christopher Middleton
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