Forward Poetry Prize

Il Forward Poetry Prize è un premio letterario del Regno Unito, istituito nel 1991. Lo scopo del premio è finanziare gli scrittori inglesi che si impegnano nel campo della poesia contemporanea ed è assegnato, di volta in volta, a turno, ai poeti emergenti o affermati, la cui opera dimostra successo di pubblico. Il premio contempla le seguenti categorie:

migliore raccolta (£ 10.000)
migliore raccolta di debutto (£ 5.000)
miglior componimento singolo (£ 1.000)
miglior interpretazione di componimento singolo (£ 1.000, dal 2023^[1])

Gli autori vincenti vengono pubblicati in un'antologia annuale dal titolo The Forward Book of Poetry.

Vincitori

Miglior raccolta

2023: Jason Allen-Paisant, Self-Portrait as Othello (Carcanet Press)^[2]
2022: Kim Moore, All the Men I Never Married (Seren)^[3]
2021: Luke Kennard, Notes on the Sonnets (Penned in the Margins)^[4]
2020: Caroline Bird, The Air Year (Carcanet Press)
2019: Fiona Benson, Vertigo and Ghost (Cape Poetry)
2018: Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead (Chatto & Windus)^[5]
2017: Sinéad Morrissey, On Balance (Carcanet Press)^[6]
2016: Vahni Capildeo, Measures of Expatriation (Carcanet Press)^[7]
2015: Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Penguin Books)^[8]
2014: Kei Miller, The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion (Carcanet)^[9]
2013: Michael Symmons Roberts, Drysalter (Cape Poetry)
2012: Jorie Graham, Place^[10]
2011: John Burnside, Black Cat Bone (Jonathan Cape)
2010: Séamus Heaney, Human Chain (Faber)
2009: Don Paterson, Rain
2008: Mick Imlah, The Lost Leader (Faber)
2007: Seán O'Brien, The Drowned Book (Picador)
2006: Robin Robertson, Swithering (Picador)
2005: David Harsent, Legion (Faber & Faber)
2004: Kathleen Jamie, The Tree House (Picador)
2003: Ciaran Carson, Breaking News (The Gallery Press)
2002: Peter Porter, Max is Missing (Picador)
2001: Seán O'Brien, Downriver (Picador)
2000: Michael Donaghy, Conjure (Picador)
1999: Jo Shapcott, My Life Asleep (Oxford University Press)
1998: Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters (Faber and Faber)
1997: Jamie McKendrick, The Marble Fly (Oxford University Press)
1996: John Fuller, Stones and Fires (Chatto & Windus)
1995: Seán O'Brien, Ghost Train (Oxford University Press)
1994: Alan Jenkins, Harm (Chatto & Windus)
1993: Carol Ann Duffy, Mean Time (Anvil Press)
1992: Thom Gunn, The Man with Night Sweats (Faber and Faber)

Miglior raccolta di debutto

2023: Momtaza Mehri, Bad Diaspora Poems (Jonathan Cape)^[11]
2022: Stephanie Sy-Quia, Amnion (Granta Poetry)^[12]
2021: Caleb Femi, Poor (Penguin Books)
2020: Will Harris, RENDANG (Granta Books)
2019: Stephen Sexton, If All the World and Love Were Young (Penguin Books)
2018: Phoebe Power, Shrines of Upper Austria (Carcanet Press)
2017: Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Jonathan Cape)
2016: Tiphanie Yanique, Wife (Peepal Tree Press)
2015: Mona Arshi, Small Hands (Liverpool University Press)
2014: Liz Berry, Black Country (Chatto & Windus)
2013: Emily Berry, Dear Boy (Faber and Faber)
2012: Sam Riviere, 81 Austerities
2011: Rachael Boast, Sidereal (Picador Poetry)
2010: Hilary Menos, Berg (Seren)
2009: Emma Jones, The Striped World
2008: Kathryn Simmonds, Sunday at the Skin Launderette
2007: Daljit Nagra, Look We Have Coming to Dover! (Faber and Faber)
2006: Tishani Doshi, Countries of the Body (Aark Arts)
2005: Helen Farish, Intimates (Jonathan Cape)
2004: Leontia Flynn, These Days (Jonathan Cape)
2003: A. B. Jackson, Fire Stations (Anvil Press)
2002: Tom French, Touching the Bones (The Gallery Press)
2001: John Stammers, The Panoramic Lounge Bar (Picador)
2000: Andrew Waterhouse, In (The Rialto)
1999: Nick Drake, The Man in the White Suit (Bloodaxe)
1998: Paul Farley, The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You (Picador)
1997: Robin Robertson, A Painted Field (Picador)
1996: Kate Clanchy, Slattern (Chatto & Windus)
1995: Jane Duran, Breathe Now, Breathe (Enitharmon Press)
1994: Kwame Dawes, Progeny of Air (Peepal Tree)
1993: Don Paterson, Nil Nil (Faber and Faber)
1992: Simon Armitage, Kid (Faber and Faber)

Miglior componimento singolo

2023: Malika Booker, Libation (Poetry Review)
2022: Nick Laird, Up Late (Granta)
2021: Nicole Sealey, Pages 22-29, An excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure (Poetry London)
2020: Malika Booker, The Little Miracles (Magma)
2019: Parwana Fayyaz, Forty Names (PN Review)
2018: Liz Berry, The Republic of Motherhood (Granta)
2017: Ian Patterson, "The Plenty of Nothing" (PN Review)
2016: Sasha Dugdale, "Joy" (PN Review)
2015: Claire Harman, "The Mighty Hudson" (TLS)
2014: Stephen Santus, "In a Restaurant" (The Bridport Prize)
2013: Nick MacKinnon, "The Metric System" (The Warwick Review)
2012: Denise Riley, A Part Song
2011: R. F. Langley, To a Nightingale (London Review of Books)
2010: Julia Copus, An Easy Passage
2009: Robin Robertson, At Roane Head
2008: Don Paterson, Love Poem For Natalie 'Tusja' Beridze
2007: Alice Oswald, Dunt
2006: Seán O'Brien, Fantasia on a Theme of James Wright (Poetry Review)
2005: Paul Farley, Liverpool Disappears for a Billionth of a Second (The North)
2004: Daljit Nagra, Look We Have Coming to Dover!
2003: Robert Minhinnick, The Fox in the National Museum of Wales (Poetry London)
2002: Medbh McGuckian, She is in the Past, She has this Grace (The Shop)
2001: Ian Duhig, The Lammas Hireling
2000: Tessa Biddington, The Death of Descartes
1999: Robert Minhinnick, Twenty-five Laments for Iraq
1998: Sheenagh Pugh, Envying Owen Beattie
1997: Lavinia Greenlaw, A World Where News Travelled Slowly
1996: Kathleen Jamie, The Graduates
1995: Jenny Joseph, In Honour of Love
1994: Iain Crichton Smith,Autumn
1993: Vicki Feaver, Judith
1992: Jackie Kay, Black Bottom

Miglior interpretazione di componimento singolo

2023: Bohdan Piasecki, Almost Certainly

Note

^ (EN) Ella Creamer, Forward prizes for poetry add new award for performed poems, in The Guardian, 30 giugno 2023. URL consultato il 18 ottobre 2023.
^ (EN) Lucy Knight, Bohdan Piasecki wins best performed poem in new Forward prize category, in The Guardian, 16 ottobre 2023. URL consultato il 18 ottobre 2023.
^ (EN) Sarah Shaffi, Kim Moore wins Forward poetry prize for ‘phenomenal’ poems about everyday sexism, in The Guardian, 28 novembre 2022. URL consultato il 30 novembre 2022.
^ (EN) Alison Flood, Luke Kennard wins Forward poetry prize for ‘anarchic’ response to Shakespeare, in The Guardian, 24 ottobre 2021. URL consultato il 25 ottobre 2021.
^ Forward Prizes for Poetry 2018, Forward Prizes for Poetry. URL consultato il 31 dicembre 2018.
^ Forward Prizes of Poetry 2017 Winners, Forward Arts Foundation, 21 settembre 2017. URL consultato il 19 ottobre 2017 (archiviato dall'url originale il 2 ottobre 2017).
^ Sian Cain, Trinidadian poet Vahni Capildeo wins 2016 Forward prize for poetry, in The Guardian, 21 settembre 2015. URL consultato il 21 settembre 2016.
^ Mark Brown, Claudia Rankine's Citizen wins Forward poetry prize, in The Guardian, 28 settembre 2015. URL consultato il 7 giugno 2016.
^ Caroline Davies, Kei Miller wins Forward poetry prize, in The Guardian, 30 settembre 2014. URL consultato il 7 giugno 2016.
^ Flood, Alison, Jorie Graham takes 2012 Forward prize, in The Guardian, 1º ottobre 2012. URL consultato il 1º ottobre 2012.
^ (EN) Sian Bayley, Allen-Paisant, Mehri, Booker and Piasecki scoop Forward Poetry Prizes, su thebookseller.com, 17 ottobre 2023. URL consultato il 18 ottobre 2023.
^ (EN) Lauren Brown, Moore, Sy-Quia and Laird set 'benchmark of excellence' to win Forward Poetry Prizes, su thebookseller.com, 28 novembre 2022. URL consultato il 30 novembre 2022.

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Collegamenti esterni

(EN) Sito ufficiale dei premi e della Fondazione, su forwardartsfoundation.org. URL consultato il 13 marzo 2009 (archiviato dall'url originale il 3 agosto 2012).