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2020
Winner
How to Wash a Heart by Bhanu Kapil

Shortlist
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
Deformations by Sasha Dugdale
Shine, Darling by Ella Frears
RENDANG by Will Harris
Love Minus Love by Wayne Holloway-Smith
Life Without Air by Daisy Lafarge
How the Hell Are You by Glyn Maxwell
Sometimes I Never Suffered by Shane McCrae
The Martian’s Regress by JO Morgan
2019
Winner
A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson

Shortlist
After the Formalities by Anthony Anaxagorou
Vertigo and Ghost by Fiona Benson
Surge by Jay Bernard
The Mizzy by Paul Farley
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
Arias by Sharon Olds
The Million-Petalled Flower of Being Here by Vidyan Ravinthiran
Erato by Deryn Rees-Jones
The Caiplie Caves by Karen Solie
2018
Winner
Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan
 
Shortlist
Insistence by Ailbhe Darcy
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
Us by Zaffar Kunial
Feel Free by Nick Laird
The Distal Point by Fiona Moore
Europa by Sean O'Brien
Shrines of Upper Austria by Phoebe Power
Soho by Richard Scott
Wade in the Water by Tracy K Smith
2017
Winner
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
 
Shortlist
The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx by Tara Bergin
In these Days of Prohibition by Caroline Bird
The Noise of a Fly by Douglas Dunn
The Radio by Leontia Flynn
So Glad I'm Me by Roddy Lumsden
Diary of the Last Man by Robert Minhinnick
Mancunia by Michael Symmons Roberts
All My Mad Mothers by Jacqueline Saphra
The Abandoned Settlements by James Sheard
2016
Winner
Jackself by Jacob Polley
 
Shortlist
Void Studies by Rachael Boast
Measures of Expatriation by Vahni Capildeo
The Blind Roadmaker by Ian Duhig
Interference Pattern by JO Morgan
The Seasons of Cullen Church by Bernard O'Donoghue
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
Say Something Back by Denise Riley
Every Little Sound by Ruby Robinson
The Remedies by Katharine Towers
2015
Winner
Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe
 
Shortlist
Deep Lane by Mark Doty
Not in this World by Tracey Herd
Jutland by Selima Hill
The World Before Snow by Tim Liardet
Waiting for the Past by Les Murray
The Beautiful Librarians by Sean O'Brien
40 Sonnets by Don Paterson
Beauty/Beauty by Rebecca Perry
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
2014
Winner
Fire Songs by David Harsent
 
Shortlist
Bright Travellers by Fiona Benson
All One Breath by John Burnside
Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Gluck
The Stairwell by Michael Longley
Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth by Ruth Padel
Fauverie by Pascale Petit
Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting by Kevin Powers
When God is a Traveller by Arundhathi Subramaniam
I Knew the Bride by Hugo Williams
2013
Winner
Parallax by Sinead Morrissey
 
Shortlist
Speak, Old Parrot by Dannie Abse
At the Time of Partition by Moniza Alvi
Red Doc by Anne Carson
Division Street by Helen Mort
Ramayana: A Retelling by Daljit Nagra
The Water Stealer by Maurice Riordan
Drysalter by Michael Symmons Roberts
Hill of Doors by Robin Robertson
Bad Machine by George Szirtes
2012
Winner
Stag’s Leap by Sharon Olds
 
Shortlist
The Death of King Arthur by Simon Armitage
Bee Journal by Sean Borodale
Ice by Gillian Clarke
The World’s Two Smallest Humans by Julia Copus
The Dark Film by Paul Farley
PLACE by Jorie Graham
The Overhaul by Kathleen Jamie
The Havocs by Jacob Polley
Burying the Wren by Deryn Rees-Jones
2011
Winner
Black Cat Bone by John Burnside
 
Shortlist
The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy
Profit and Loss by Leontia Flynn
Night by David Harsent
Armour by John Kinsella
Grace by Esther Morgan
Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!! by Daljit Nagra
November by Sean O'Brien
Farmer's Cross by Bernard O'Donoghue
Memorial by Alice Oswald
2010
Winner
White Egrets by Derek Walcott
 
Shortlist
Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage
The Mirabelles by Annie Freud
You by John Haynes
Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
What the Water Gave Me by Pascale Petit
The Wrecking Light by Robin Robertson
Rough Music by Fiona Sampson
Phantom Noise by Brian Turner
New Light for the Old Dark by Sam Willetts
2009
Winner
The Water Table by Philip Gross
 
Shortlist
Continental Shelf by Fred D'Aguiar
Over by Jane Draycott
Through the Square Window by Sinead Morrissey
The Sun-fish by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
One Secret Thing by Sharon Olds
Weeds & Wild Flowers by Alice Oswald
A Scattering by Christopher Reid
The Burning of the Books and Other Poems by George Szirtes
West End Final by Hugo Williams
2008
Winner
Nigh-No-Place by Jen Hadfield
 
Shortlist
Europa by Moniza Alvi
The Glass Swarm by Peter Bennet
For All We Know by Ciaran Carson
Full Volume by Robert Crawford
Life Under Water by Maura Dooley
Theories and Apparitions by Mark Doty
The Lost Leader by Mick Imlah
Hide Now by Glyn Maxwell
 Yellow Studio by Stephen Romer
2007
Winner
The Drowned Book by Sean O'Brien
 
Shortlist
The Speed of Dark by Ian Duhig
Hawks and Doves by Alan Gillis
Pessimism for Beginners by Sophie Hannah
The Meanest Flower by Mimi Khalvati
Public Dream by Frances Leviston
The Pomegranates of Kandahar by Sarah Maguire
A Book of Lives by Edwin Morgan
Common Prayer by Fiona Sampson
Black Moon by Matthew Sweeney
2006
Winner
District and Circle by Seamus Heaney
 
Shortlist
Tyrannosaurus Rex versus the Corduroy Kid by Simon Armitage
Tramp in Flames by Paul Farley
Bad Shaman Blues by WN Herbert
After by Jane Hirshfield
The Blood Choir by Tim Liardet
Horse Latitudes by Paul Muldoon
Swithering by Robin Robertson
Redgrove’s Wife by Penelope Shuttle
Dear Room by Hugo Williams
2005
Winner
Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy
 
Shortlist
The Full Indian Rope Trick by Colette Bryce
Take Me with You by Polly Clark
Intimates by Helen Farish
Legion by David Harsent
The State of the Prisons by Sinead Morrissey
Woods Etc. by Alice Oswald
The Huntress by Pascale Petit
The Movement of Bodies by Sheenagh Pugh
Stolen Love Behaviour by John Stammers
We Were Pedestrians by Gerard Woodward
2004
Winner
Reel by George Szirtes
 
Shortlist
The Never-Never by Kathryn Gray
Blues by John Hartley Williams
The Tree House by Kathleen Jamie
Snow Water by Michael Longley
The Soho Leopard by Ruth Padel
The Road to Inver by Tom Paulin
Afterburner by Peter Porter
Corpus by Michael Symmons Roberts
2003
Winner
Landing Light by Don Paterson
 
Shortlist
Nine Horses by Billy Collins
Manhandling the Deity by John F Deane
The Lammas Hireling by Ian Duhig
Minsk by Lavinia Greenlaw
Ink Stone by Jamie McKendrick
Outiving by Bernard O'Donoghue
The Brink by Jacob Polley
For and After by Christopher Reid
Hard Water by Jean Sprackland
2002
Winner
Dart by Alice Oswald
 
Shortlist
The Universal Home Doctor by Simon Armitage
The Light Trap by John Burnside
The Ice Age by Paul Farley
Marriage by David Harsent
The Orchards of Syon by Geoffrey Hill
A Rough Climate by EA Markham
Between Here and There by Sinead Morrissey
Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon
Voodoo Shop by Ruth Padel
2001
Winner
The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson
 
Shortlist
Lintel by Gillian Allnut
The Age of Cardboard and String by Charles Boyle
Electric Light by Seamus Heaney
Speech! Speech! by Geoffrey Hill
Bunny by Selima Hill
Landscape with Chainsaw by James Lasdun
Downriver by Sean O'Brien
The Zoo Father by Pascale Petit
Burning Babylon by Michael Symmons Roberts
Winners
2000
The Weather in Japan by Michael Longley
 
1999
Billy's Rain by Hugo Williams
 
1998
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
 
1997
God's Gift to Women by Don Paterson
 
1996
Subhuman Redneck Poems by Les Murray
 
1995
My Alexandria by Mark Doty
 
1994
The Annals of Chile by Paul Muldoon
 
1993
First Language: Poems by Ciaran Carson
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