"Ted Hughes Award The Ted Hughes Award is an annual prize given to a living UK poet for new work in poetry. It is awarded each spring in recognition of a work from the previous year. The award was established in 2009 with the permission of Carol Hughes in honour of British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes. Annually the members of the Poetry Society and Poetry Book Society recommend a living UK poet who has completed the newest and most innovative work that year, ""highlighting outstanding contributions made by poets to our cultural life."" The award seeks to celebrate new work"
"was published by Peepal Tree Press in 2013 and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre prize for best first full collection published in the UK & Ireland. She was the inaugural Poet In Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Booker's poem ""Nine Nights"", first published in ""The Poetry Review"" in autumn 2016, was shortlisted for Best Single Poem in the 2017 Forward Prize. Malika Booker Malika Booker (born 1970) is a British poet, writer and artist. She is considered ""a pioneer of the present spoken word movement"" in the UK. Organizations for which she has worked include Arts Council"
"in January 2004) for her début collection. Shortlist: Judges: Simon Armitage, Selina Guinness, and Colm Tóibín. Poetry Now Award The Poetry Now Award is an annual literary prize presented for the best single volume of poetry by an Irish poet. The €5,000 award was first given in 2005 (reduced to €2,500 in 2013) and is presented during annual Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown poetry festivals. From 2005 to 2011, it was bestowed during the Poetry Now international poetry festival (the latter event was inaugurated in 1996) which was held in March or April each year. In 2012 and 2013, the award was given"
"T. S. Eliot Prize The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is a prestigious prize that was, for many years, awarded by the Poetry Book Society (UK) to ""the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland"" in any particular year. The Prize was inaugurated in 1993 in celebration of the Poetry Book Society's 40th birthday and in honour of its founding poet, T. S. Eliot. Since its inception, the prize money was donated by Eliot's widow, Mrs Valerie Eliot and more recently it has been given by the T S"
"associates and friends, including Patrick Marber, Nina Raine, Tom Stoppard, Peter Nichols, Susanna Gross, Richard Eyre, and David Hare. A memorial cricket match at Lord's Cricket Ground between the Gaieties Cricket Club and the Lord's Taverners, followed by performances of Pinter's poems and excerpts from his plays, took place on 27 September 2009. In 2009, English PEN established the PEN Pinter Prize, which is awarded annually to a British writer or a writer resident in Britain who, in the words of Pinter's Nobel speech, casts an 'unflinching, unswerving' gaze upon the world, and shows a 'fierce intellectual determination ... to"
"and Wordsworth died. Edward Gibbon condemned the position's artificial approach to poetry: The salary has varied, but traditionally includes some alcohol. Ben Jonson first received a pension of 100 marks, and later an annual ""terse of Canary wine"". Dryden had a pension of £300 and a butt of Canary wine. Pye received £27 instead of the wine. Tennyson drew £72 a year from the Lord Chamberlain's department, and £27 from the Lord Steward's ""in lieu of the butt of sack"". The current annual salary is £5,750. The present laureate is Carol Ann Duffy, appointed in May 2009. The United Kingdom"
"to advance the study, use and enjoyment of poetry. The Poetry Society was founded in 1909 to 'promote ""a more general recognition and appreciation of poetry"". Since then, it has grown into one of Britain's most dynamic arts organisations, representing British poetry both nationally and internationally. Today it has nearly 4000 members worldwide and publishes the leading poetry magazine, ""The Poetry Review"". Geoffrey Dearmer Award The Geoffrey Dearmer Award is an annual poetry prize founded in 1997 and run by the Poetry Society in memory of the poet Geoffrey Dearmer (1893–1996), who at 103 was the Society's oldest member. By"
"Geoffrey Hill Sir Geoffrey William Hill, FRSL (18 June 1932 – 30 June 2016) was an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University. Hill has been considered to be among the most distinguished poets of his generation and was called the ""greatest living poet in the English language."" From 2010 to 2015 he held the position of Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford. Following his receiving the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in 2009 for his ""Collected Critical Writings"", and the publication of ""Broken Hierarchies"
"begin to try to change that"". Christopher James, the 2008 winner, commented ""if there is an unspoken Grand Slam circuit for poetry prizes, then the National Poetry Competition is definitely Wimbledon – it's the one everyone dreams of winning"". Other prestigious names to have won the competition include Ruth Padel, Jo Shapcott, Sinéad Morrissey, Ian Duhig, Colette Bryce and the poet and novelist Helen Dunmore. The competition runs annually, opening in the spring and closing at the end of October. A new team of judges (made up of three respected poets) is announced each year. The first prize is £5,000"
"in north Wales with four full-time employees. [GCSE Poetry Live] is now well-established in many school’s academic programme. Poets reading at the 2009/2010 events across the UK include: [Carol Ann Duffy], [Simon Armitage], [Gillian Clarke], John Agard, [Imtiaz Dharker], Grace Nichols, [Daljit Nagra] and [Moniza Alvi] Poetry Live Poetry Live, also known as Poetry Live! for GCSE, is a series of annual events in venues across the UK where poets perform their poetry to English school children. Poetry Live! has its origins in large conferences Simon Powell used to organize in the UK for A-level English students. At first, distinguished"
"and October 1892, there was a break of four years as a mark of respect; Tennyson's laureate poems ""Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington"" and ""The Charge of the Light Brigade"" were particularly cherished by the Victorian public. Five poets, Thomas Gray, Samuel Rogers, Walter Scott, Philip Larkin and Seamus Heaney, turned down the laureateship. The holder of the position as of 2018 is Carol Ann Duffy, who was appointed in May 2009 on a fixed ten-year term. The origins of the poet laureateship date back to 1616 when James I of England granted a pension to"
"Andrew Motion Sir Andrew Motion (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work. In 2012, he became President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, taking over from Bill Bryson. Motion was born on 26 October 1952 in London; his mother was Catherine Gillian Bakewell (known as Gillian) and his father Andrew Richard Michael Motion (known as Richard). The family"
"Peter Porter Poetry Prize The Peter Porter Poetry Prize is an ongoing international literary award run by the Australian Book Review for outstanding poetry. Established by the ""ABR"" in 2005, the Prize is named after the late Australian poet Peter Porter. The Porter Prize, awarded annually by the ""ABR"", is considered 'one of Australia’s most lucrative and respected awards for poetry' and among the country's 'most prestigious prizes for a new poem'. It 'guarantees winners wide exposure through publication in ""ABR""' and in 2017 received 'nearly 1000 entries from twenty-two countries'. The Porter Prize was established in 2005 by the"
"National Poetry Competition The National Poetry Competition is an annual poetry prize established in 1978 in the United Kingdom. Itlis run by the UK-based Poetry Society and accepts entries from all over the world, with over 10,000 poems being submitted to the competition each year. Winning has been an important milestone in the careers of many well-known poets. Carol Ann Duffy, the current UK Poet Laureate, won in 1983 with 'Whoever She Was'. Looking back in 2007 she commented: ""in those days, one was still called a 'poetess' – so it meant a lot, as a young woman poet, to"
"Poetry Now Award The Poetry Now Award is an annual literary prize presented for the best single volume of poetry by an Irish poet. The €5,000 award was first given in 2005 (reduced to €2,500 in 2013) and is presented during annual Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown poetry festivals. From 2005 to 2011, it was bestowed during the Poetry Now international poetry festival (the latter event was inaugurated in 1996) which was held in March or April each year. In 2012 and 2013, the award was given during the Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival, in September (""dlr"" stands for ""Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown""). The"
"Helen Mort Helen Mort (born 28 September 1985, Sheffield) is a British poet. She is a five-times winner of the Foyle Young Poets award, received an Eric Gregory Award from The Society of Authors in 2007, and won the Manchester Poetry Prize Young Writer Prize in 2008. In 2010, she became the youngest ever poet-in-residence at The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere. In the same year she was shortlisted for the Picador Prize and won the Norwich Café Writers' Poetry Competition with a poem called `Deer`. She was the Derbyshire Poet Laureate from 2013 to 2015. In 2014, she won the Fenton"
"significant place. With regard to the current situation of Welsh poetry in English, Ian Gregson suggests that ""much of the most exciting poetry in Britain is being written in Wales"". He singles out Oliver Reynolds (born 1957), Gwyneth Lewis (born 1959), and Stephen Knight (born 1960) as having fulfilled ""their early promise"". The National Theatre Wales, was founded in 2009, several years after its Welsh language equivalent. As well as non-Welsh productions, it aims to produce original English language works by Welsh playwrights. In addition to Anglo-Welsh writers winning awards outside Wales, there are also several Welsh awards that can"
"and the top three winners are published in Britain's leading poetry magazine, ""Poetry Review"". National Poetry Competition The National Poetry Competition is an annual poetry prize established in 1978 in the United Kingdom. Itlis run by the UK-based Poetry Society and accepts entries from all over the world, with over 10,000 poems being submitted to the competition each year. Winning has been an important milestone in the careers of many well-known poets. Carol Ann Duffy, the current UK Poet Laureate, won in 1983 with 'Whoever She Was'. Looking back in 2007 she commented: ""in those days, one was still called"
"Seatonian Prize The Seatonian Prize is awarded by the University of Cambridge for the best English poem on a sacred subject, and is open to any Master of Arts of the university. Seaton, and his prize, is referred to in the poem of George Gordon, Lord Byron 'English Bards and Scots Reviewers' 1809. It was founded by the Rev. Thomas Seaton, educated at Stamford School and a Fellow of Clare College, who died in 1741. The prize was financed by the revenue from his Kislingbury estate bequeathed to the University. The bequest was not formally accepted by the University and"
"Seatonian Prize The Seatonian Prize is awarded by the University of Cambridge for the best English poem on a sacred subject, and is open to any Master of Arts of the university. Seaton, and his prize, is referred to in the poem of George Gordon, Lord Byron 'English Bards and Scots Reviewers' 1809. It was founded by the Rev. Thomas Seaton, educated at Stamford School and a Fellow of Clare College, who died in 1741. The prize was financed by the revenue from his Kislingbury estate bequeathed to the University. The bequest was not formally accepted by the University and"
"Poetry Prize is awarded annually for the best volume of poetry written by a living U.S. citizen and published in the previous year in the United States. The Prize was created in 1975 by the New Hope Foundation of Pennsylvania, which was a philanthropic foundation created by Lenore Marshall and her husband, James Marshall, to ""support the arts and the cause of world peace""; Lenore Marshall, a poet, novelist, editor, and peace activist, had died in 1971. The Prize was initially administered by the ""Saturday Review"" magazine. Following the folding of ""Saturday Review"", the Prize was administered by ""The Nation"""
"20,000 respectively. They are also presented with a statuette designed by a Polish sculptor Michał Staszczak. 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 Silesius Poetry Award The Silesius Poetry Award (Polish: ""Wrocławska Nagroda Poetycka Silesius"") is an annual Polish literary prize established in 2008 in Wrocław. The award is presented during the Port Literacki Wrocław Festival and takes its name from a prominent Silesian Baroque poet Angelus Silesius. The award was created on the initiative of Jarosław Broda, head of the Wroclaw Department of Culture, and is funded by the city of Wrocław. It is awarded"
"Matthew Sweeney, Leontia Flynn, Marie Howe, Michael Symmons Roberts, Billy Collins, Deborah Landau and Daljit Nagra. Previous winners: Paul McMahon, Tom Moore, Ann Gray, Lisa Bickmore, Abigail Parry, and Lee Sharkey. The closing date is 31 December each year. The Moth International Poetry Prize The Moth International Poetry Prize, formerly the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize, was established by ""The Moth"" magazine in 2011. €10,000 is awarded for a single unpublished poem, with 3 runner-up prizes of €1,000. The Moth Poetry Prize is open to anyone (over 16), as long as the poem is previously unpublished, and each year it attracts"
"Book Review"" established its annual Poetry Prize in 2005, and in 2011 renamed it the Peter Porter Poetry Prize in memory of the Australian poet Peter Porter (1929-2010). The Prize is one of Australia's most lucrative awards for poetry. Winning and short-listed entries are published in ""ABR"". To date, Judith Bishop is the only poet to win the prize twice. The prize is open to poets around the world writing in English. Entrants can submit a single poem of no more than 75 lines. Multiple entries are permitted, and all poems are judged anonymously. ""Australian Book Review"" revived its annual"
"John Llewellyn Rhys Prize The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize was a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of literature (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama) by an author from the Commonwealth aged 35 or under, written in English and published in the United Kingdom. Established in 1942, it was the second oldest literary award in the UK. Since 2011 the award has been suspended due to funding problems. The last award was in 2010. The prize was initiated in 1942 by Jane Oliver in memory of her husband John Llewellyn Rhys, a young author who was killed on 5 August"
"Centers located around the world. PEN Pinter Prize The PEN Pinter Prize and the Pinter International Writer of Courage Award both comprise an annual literary award launched in 2009 by English PEN in honour of the late Nobel Literature Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, who had been a Vice President of English PEN and an active member of the International PEN Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC). The award is given to ""a British writer or a writer resident in Britain of outstanding literary merit who, in the words of Pinter’s Nobel speech ['Art, Truth and Politics'], casts an 'unflinching, unswerving' gaze"
"the most energised, giving a real sense of poetry as an important living, contemporary literary form."" In 2017 the Ledbury Poetry Festival will celebrate its 21st anniversary by launching the biannual Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize for Second Collections, the only prize of this kind in the UK. This prize aims to support and encourage poets at the ‘mid-career’ stage with a prize of £5,000 for the winning second collection. The Ledbury Poetry Festival has received financial support from Arts Council England, the Pennington-Mellor-Munthe Charity Trust and The Elmley Foundation. British poets who have performed at the festival include Simon Armitage,"
"Poetry Live Poetry Live, also known as Poetry Live! for GCSE, is a series of annual events in venues across the UK where poets perform their poetry to English school children. Poetry Live! has its origins in large conferences Simon Powell used to organize in the UK for A-level English students. At first, distinguished academics and critics gave talks about novels, plays and poetry but then the idea emerged that it might be better to have the writers themselves talking about their work. Soon after, large audiences of A-level students were seeing and hearing regular contributors such as Beryl Bainbridge,"
"Jim Causley (see above), Natalie Merchant, Johnny Coppin, Mervyn Horder and Phyllis Tate. New versions continue to be composed. The Charles Causley International Poetry Prize began in 2013 and has continued in most recent years, the winners usually being announced in the build up to Christmas. First prize awards have been £2000, second prize awards £250 and third prize awards £100. It is an international competition open to anyone over the age of 18 and held in the memory of Charles Causley, renowned Cornish poet. Entries usually cost £7 each and more than one can be submitted per poet. 1st"
"Forward Prizes for Poetry 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"
"PEN Pinter Prize The PEN Pinter Prize and the Pinter International Writer of Courage Award both comprise an annual literary award launched in 2009 by English PEN in honour of the late Nobel Literature Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, who had been a Vice President of English PEN and an active member of the International PEN Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC). The award is given to ""a British writer or a writer resident in Britain of outstanding literary merit who, in the words of Pinter’s Nobel speech ['Art, Truth and Politics'], casts an 'unflinching, unswerving' gaze upon the world and shows"
"the London Arts' New London Writers Awards. Maura Dooley Maura Dooley is a British poet and writer. She has published 4 collections of Poetry and edited several anthologies. She is winner of the Eric Gregory Award in 1987, the Cholmondeley Award in 2016 and was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize (single poem) in 1997 and again in 2015. Her poetry collections ""Life Under Water"" (2008) and ""Kissing A Bone"" (1996) were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Maura Dooley was born 18 May 1957 in Truro, England to Irish parents. She grew up in Bristol, England. She obtained"
"a fellowship by the Ballinglen Arts Foundation. He held the Judith E Wilson Fellowship for poetry to the University of Cambridge for 2009/10. In 2017 he was named by previous winner, the English poet Tom Raworth, as the latest recipient of the biennial N. C. Kaser prize for poetry. Trevor Joyce Trevor Joyce (born 26 October 1947) is an Irish poet, born in Dublin. He co-founded New Writers' Press (NWP) in Dublin in 1967 and was a founding editor of NWP's ""The Lace Curtain; A Magazine of Poetry and Criticism"" in 1968. Joyce was the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Poetry"