Forward Prizes for Poetry

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Forward Prize)

Template:Short description Template:DMCA

Template:Short descriptionPage Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.

Forward Prizes for Poetry
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:InfoboxImage/data' not found.
Awarded forBest Collection (£10,000); Best First Collection (£5,000); Best Single Poem (written) (£1,000); Best Single Poem (performed) (£1,000)
Sponsored byForward Worldwide, Arts Council England, The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, The estate of Felix Dennis
Date1992
LocationUnited Kingdom
CountryScript error: No such module "WikidataIB".
Presented byScript error: No such module "WikidataIB".
WebsiteScript error: No such module "WikidataIB".

Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".

The Forward Prizes for Poetry are major British awards for poetry, presented annually at a public ceremony in London. They were founded in 1992 by William Sieghart with the aim of celebrating excellence in poetry and increasing its audience. The prizes do this by identifying and honouring talent: collections published in the UK and Ireland over the course of the previous year are eligible, as are single poems nominated by journal editors or prize organisers. Each year, works shortlisted for the prizes – plus those highly commended by the judges – are collected in the Forward Book of Poetry.

The awards have been sponsored since their inception by the content marketing agency Bookmark, formerly Forward Worldwide. The best first collection prize is sponsored by the estate of Felix Dennis.

The Forward Prizes for Poetry celebrated their 30th anniversary in 2021. In 2023, a new category for outstanding performance of a poem was added to the list of awards.[1]

Awards

The Forward Prizes for Poetry consist of four awards:

  • The Forward Prize for Best Collection, £10,000
  • The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection, £5,000
  • The Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (written) in memory of Michael Donaghy, £1,000
  • The Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (performed), £1,000

The Prizes are run by the Forward Arts Foundation, which is also responsible for National Poetry Day. The executive director of the Forward Arts Foundation is Susannah Herbert.[2]

Previous winners

Best Collection

Forward Prizes for Best Poetry Collection
Year Author Title Publisher Ref.
1992 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Faber and Faber
1993 Script error: No such module "Sort". Mean Time Anvil Press Poetry
1994 Script error: No such module "Sort". Harm Chatto & Windus
1995 Script error: No such module "Sort". Ghost Train Oxford University Press [3]
1996 Script error: No such module "Sort". Stones and Fires Chatto & Windus
1997 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Oxford University Press
1998 Script error: No such module "Sort". Birthday Letters Faber and Faber
1999 Script error: No such module "Sort". My Life Asleep Oxford University Press
2000 Script error: No such module "Sort". Conjure Picador
2001 Script error: No such module "Sort". Downriver Picador [3]
2002 Script error: No such module "Sort". Max is Missing Picador
2003 Script error: No such module "Sort". Breaking News Gallery Press
2004 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Picador [4]
2005 Script error: No such module "Sort". Legion Faber and Faber [5][6]
2006 Script error: No such module "Sort". Swithering Picador [7]
2007 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Picador [3]
2008 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Faber and Faber [8]
2009 Script error: No such module "Sort". Rain Faber and Faber [9]
2010 Script error: No such module "Sort". Human Chain Faber and Faber [10]
2011 Script error: No such module "Sort". Black Cat Bone Jonathan Cape [11]
2012 Script error: No such module "Sort". PLACE Carcanet Press [12]
2013 Script error: No such module "Sort". Drysalter Cape Poetry [13]
2014 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Carcanet Press [14]
2015 Script error: No such module "Sort". Citizen: An American Lyric Penguin Books [15]
2016 Script error: No such module "Sort". Measures of Expatriation Carcanet Press [16][17][18]
2017 Script error: No such module "Sort". On Balance Carcanet Press [19]
2018 Script error: No such module "Sort". Don't Call Us Dead Chatto & Windus [20][21]
2019 Script error: No such module "Sort". Vertigo and Ghost Cape Poetry [22][23]
2020 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Carcanet Press [24][25]
2021 Script error: No such module "Sort". Notes on the Sonnets Penned in the Margins [26][27]
2022 Script error: No such module "Sort". All the Men I Never Married Seren Books [28][29]
2023 Jason Allen-Paisant Self-Portrait as Othello Carcanet Press [30]
2024 Victoria Chang With My Back to the World Corsair [31]
2025 Vidyan Ravinthiran Avidyā Bloodaxe Books [32] Ravinthiran and Solie were the prize's first joint winners
Karen Solie Wellwater Picador

Best First Collection

Forward Prizes for Best First Poetry Collection
Year Author Title Publisher Ref.
1992 Script error: No such module "Sort". Kid Faber and Faber
1993 Script error: No such module "Sort". Nil Nil Faber and Faber
1994 Script error: No such module "Sort". Progeny of Air Peepal Tree Press
1995 Script error: No such module "Sort". Breathe Now, Breathe Enitharmon Press
1996 Script error: No such module "Sort". The Thing in the Gap Stone Stile Faber and Faber
1997 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Picador
1998 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Picador
1999 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Bloodaxe Books
2000 Script error: No such module "Sort". In The Rialto
2001 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Picador
2002 Script error: No such module "Sort". Touching the Bones The Gallery Press
2003 Script error: No such module "Sort". Fire Stations Anvil Press Poetry
2004 Script error: No such module "Sort". These Days Jonathan Cape
2005 Script error: No such module "Sort". Intimates Jonathan Cape
2006 Script error: No such module "Sort". Countries of the Body Aark Arts
2007 Script error: No such module "Sort". Look We Have Coming to Dover! Faber and Faber [8]
2008 Script error: No such module "Sort". Sunday at the Skin Launderette Seren Books
2009 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Faber and Faber
2010 Script error: No such module "Sort". Berg Seren Books
2011 Script error: No such module "Sort". Sidereal Picador
2012 Script error: No such module "Sort". 81 Austerities [12]
2013 Script error: No such module "Sort". Dear Boy Faber and Faber
2014 Script error: No such module "Sort". Black Country Chatto & Windus
2015 Script error: No such module "Sort". Small Hands Liverpool University Press
2016 Script error: No such module "Sort". Wife Peepal Tree Press [18]
2017 Script error: No such module "Sort". Night Sky with Exit Wounds Jonathan Cape [33]
2018 Script error: No such module "Sort". Shrines of Upper Austria Carcanet Press [20]
2019 Script error: No such module "Sort". If All the World and Love Were Young Penguin Books
2020 Script error: No such module "Sort". RENDANG Granta [24]
2021 Script error: No such module "Sort". Poor Penguin Poetry [26]
2022 Script error: No such module "Sort". Amnion Granta [28]
2023 Momtaza Mehri Bad Diaspora Poems Jonathan Cape [34]
2024 Marjorie Lotfi The Wrong Person to Ask Bloodaxe [31]
2025 Isabelle Baafi Chaotic Good Faber and Faber [35]

Best Single Poem (written)

Forward Prizes for Best Single Poem (written)
Year Author Title Publication Ref.
1992 Script error: No such module "Sort". "Black Bottom"
1993 Script error: No such module "Sort". "Judith"
1994 Script error: No such module "Sort". "Autumn"
1995 Script error: No such module "Sort". "In Honour of Love"
1996 Script error: No such module "Sort". "The Graduates"
1997 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort".
1998 Script error: No such module "Sort". "Envying Owen Beattie"
1999 Script error: No such module "Sort". "Twenty-five Laments for Iraq"
2000 Script error: No such module "Sort". "The Death of Descartes"
2001 Script error: No such module "Sort". "The Lammas Hireling"
2002 Script error: No such module "Sort". "She is in the Past, She has this Grace" The Shop
2003 Script error: No such module "Sort". "The Fox in the National Museum of Wales" Poetry London
2004 Script error: No such module "Sort". "Look We Have Coming to Dover!" Poetry Review
2005 Script error: No such module "Sort". "Liverpool Disappears for a Billionth of a Second" The North
2006 Script error: No such module "Sort". "Fantasia on a Theme of James Wright" Poetry Review
2007 Script error: No such module "Sort". "Dunt" Poetry London [8]
2008 Script error: No such module "Sort". "Love Poem for Natalie 'Tusja' Beridze" Poetry Review
2009 Script error: No such module "Sort". "At Roane Head"
2010 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort".
2011 Script error: No such module "Sort". "To a Nightingale" London Review of Books
2012 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". [12]
2013 Script error: No such module "Sort". "The Metric System" The Warwick Review
2014 Script error: No such module "Sort". "In a Restaurant" The Bridport Prize
2015 Script error: No such module "Sort". "The Mighty Hudson" TLS
2016 Script error: No such module "Sort". "Joy" PN Review [18]
2017 Script error: No such module "Sort". "The Plenty of Nothing" PN Review [36]
2018 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Granta [20]
2019 Script error: No such module "Sort". "Forty Names" PN Review
2020 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Magma [24]
2021 Script error: No such module "Sort". "Pages 22–29" an excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure Poetry London [26]
2022 Script error: No such module "Sort". "Up Late" Granta [28]
2023 Malika Booker "Libation" Poetry Review [37]
2024 Cindy Juyoung Ok "Ward of One" Poetry London [38]
2025 Abeer Ameer "At Least" MODRON Magazine [39]

Best Single Poem (performed)

Forward Prizes for Best Single Poem (performed)
Year Author Title Ref.
2023 Bohdan Piasecki 'Almost Certainly' [40]
2024 Leyla Josephine 'Dear John Berger' [41]
2025 Griot Gabriel 'Where I'm From' [42]

See also

References

Page Template:Reflist/styles.css has no content.

  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Creamer, Ella (30 June 2023). "Forward prizes for poetry add new award for performed poems". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  2. ^ Forward Arts Foundation. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
  3. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lea, Richard (3 October 2007). "O'Brien breaks poetry record". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Crown, Sarah (6 October 2004). "Forward prize goes to Kathleen Jamie". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kennedy, Maev (12 January 2015). "David Harsent wins TS Eliot prize for poetry for Fire Songs". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Crown, Sarah (6 October 2005). "Forward goes to David Harsent". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brown, Mark (5 October 2006). "Poet puts Heaney in shade by scooping £10,000 prize". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  8. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Flood, Alison (8 October 2008). "Mick Imlah takes Forward prize after 20-year silence". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Flood, Alison (7 October 2009). "Don Paterson wins the Forward poetry prize with 'masterful' collection". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Page, Benedicte (6 October 2010). "Seamus Heaney wins £10k Forward poetry prize for Human Chain". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brown, Mark (5 October 2011). "John Burnside finally wins Forward poetry prize". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  12. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Flood, Alison (1 October 2012). "Jorie Graham takes 2012 Forward prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Higgins, Charlotte (1 October 2013). "Michael Symmons Roberts wins Forward poetry prize". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Davies, Caroline (30 September 2014). "Kei Miller wins Forward poetry prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brown, Mark (28 September 2015). "Claudia Rankine's Citizen wins Forward poetry prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cain, Sian (21 September 2015). "Trinidadian poet Vahni Capildeo wins 2016 Forward prize for poetry". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Roffey, Monique (3 May 2022). "'The pendulum has swung': Why we female Trinidadian writers are having our moment". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  18. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Forward prize, backward reading: who grumbles if white writers win awards?". The Guardian. 30 September 2016. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Forward Prizes of Poetry 2017 Winners". Forward Arts Foundation. 21 September 2017. Archived from the original on 2 October 2017. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
  20. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Forward Prizes for Poetry 2018". Forward Prizes for Poetry. Archived from the original on 25 May 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  21. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Flood, Alison (18 September 2018). "Danez Smith becomes youngest winner of Forward poetry prize". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  22. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Higgins, Charlotte (25 October 2019). "Forward prize winner Fiona Benson: 'It's still taboo to talk about rape and women's bodies'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  23. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hay, Emily (20 October 2019). "Fiona Benson wins Forward prize with Greek myth poems for #MeToo age". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  24. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Bird's 'The Air Year' wins Forward Poetry Prize". Books+Publishing. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  25. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cain, Sian (25 October 2020). "Forward poetry prize goes to 'audacious, erotically charged' The Air Year". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  26. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bayley, Sian (25 October 2021). "Kennard, Femi and Sealey win Forward Prizes for Poetry". The Bookseller. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  27. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Flood, Alison (24 October 2021). "Luke Kennard wins Forward poetry prize for 'anarchic' response to Shakespeare". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  28. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Forward Prizes for Poetry 2022 Winners". National Poetry Library. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
  29. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Shaffi, Sarah (28 November 2022). "Kim Moore wins Forward poetry prize for 'phenomenal' poems about everyday sexism". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  30. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Poetry Book Society. "ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE FORWARD PRIZES 2023".
  31. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."2024 Forward Prizes for Poetry winners announced". Books+Publishing. 15 October 2024. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
  32. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Loffhagen, Emma (26 October 2025). "Forward prize names poets Vidyan Ravinthiran and Karen Solie its first joint winners". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  33. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Tristram Fane Saunders (21 September 2017). "Vietnamese refugee Ocean Vuong wins 2017 Forward Prize for Poetry". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 21 December 2023. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  34. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Poetry Book Society. "ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE FORWARD PRIZES 2023".
  35. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Loffhagen, Emma (26 October 2025). "Forward prize names poets Vidyan Ravinthiran and Karen Solie its first joint winners". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  36. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Flood, Alison (21 September 2017). "Husband's elegy for Jenny Diski wins Forward prize for best single poem". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  37. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Poetry Society. "Poetry Review poem by Malika Booker wins major award at Forward Prize 2023 announcements".
  38. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Knight, Lucy (10 October 2024). "Forward poetry prize goes to Victoria Chang for collection inspired by painter Agnes Martin". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  39. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Loffhagen, Emma (26 October 2025). "Forward prize names poets Vidyan Ravinthiran and Karen Solie its first joint winners". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  40. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Almost Certainly by Bohdan Piasecki". Forward Arts Foundation. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  41. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Previous Years". Forward Arts Foundation. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  42. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Loffhagen, Emma (26 October 2025). "Forward prize names poets Vidyan Ravinthiran and Karen Solie its first joint winners". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
Retrieved from "https://cosmopedia.co/index.php?title=Forward_Prizes_for_Poetry&oldid=1461174"