T. S. Eliot Prize

The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is a prize for poetry awarded by the T. S. Eliot Foundation. For many years it was awarded by the Eliots' 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, Valerie Eliot and more recently it has been given by the T. S. Eliot Estate.

The T. S. Eliot Foundation took over the running of the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2016, appointing as its new director Chris Holifield (formerly director of the Poetry Book Society), when the former Poetry Book Society charity had to be wound up, with its book club and company name taken over by book sales agency Inpress Ltd in Newcastle. Holifield retired at the end of June 2022 after 20 years in the post, being replaced by Mike Sims. The winner now receives £25,000 and the ten shortlisted poets each receive £1,500, making it the United Kingdom's most valuable annual poetry competition. The Prize has been called "the most coveted award in poetry".

The shortlist for the Prize is announced in October of each year, and the 10 shortlisted poets take part in the Readings at the Royal Festival Hall in London's Southbank Centre on the evening before the announcement of the Prize. Two thousand people attended the 2011 reading.

List of winners

 * 1993 – Ciarán Carson, First Language: Poems
 * 1994 – Paul Muldoon, The Annals of Chile
 * 1995 – Mark Doty, My Alexandria
 * 1996 – Les Murray, Subhuman Redneck Poems
 * 1997 – Don Paterson, God's Gift to Women
 * 1998 – Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
 * 1999 – Hugo Williams, Billy's Rain
 * 2000 – Michael Longley, The Weather in Japan
 * 2001 – Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband
 * 2002 – Alice Oswald, Dart
 * 2003 – Don Paterson, Landing Light
 * 2004 – George Szirtes, Reel
 * 2005 – Carol Ann Duffy, Rapture
 * 2006 – Seamus Heaney, District and Circle
 * 2007 – Sean O'Brien, The Drowned Book
 * 2008 – Jen Hadfield, Nigh-No-Place
 * 2009 – Philip Gross, The Water Table
 * 2010 – Derek Walcott, White Egrets
 * 2011 – John Burnside, Black Cat Bone
 * 2012 – Sharon Olds, Stag's Leap
 * 2013 – Sinéad Morrissey, Parallax
 * 2014 – David Harsent, Fire Songs
 * 2015 – Sarah Howe, Loop of Jade
 * 2016 – Jacob Polley, Jackself
 * 2017 – Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
 * 2018 – Hannah Sullivan, Three Poems
 * 2019 – Roger Robinson, A Portable Paradise
 * 2020 – Bhanu Kapil, How to Wash a Heart
 * 2021 – Joelle Taylor, C+nto & Othered Poems
 * 2022 – Anthony Joseph, Sonnets for Albert
 * 2023 – Jason Allen-Paisant, Self-Portrait as Othello

List of judges

 * 2023 – Paul Muldoon, Sasha Dugdale and Denise Saul
 * 2022 – Jean Sprackland, Hannah Lowe and Roger Robinson
 * 2021 – Glyn Maxwell, Caroline Bird and Zaffar Kunial
 * 2020 – Lavinia Greenlaw, Mona Arshi and Andrew McMillan
 * 2019 — John Burnside, Sarah Howe and Nick Makoha
 * 2018 — Clare Pollard, Sinéad Morrissey and Daljit Nagra
 * 2017 — W. N. Herbert, James Lasdun and Helen Mort
 * 2016 — Julia Copus, Ruth Padel and Alan Gillis
 * 2015 – Kei Miller, Pascale Petit and Ahren Warner
 * 2014 – Sean Borodale, Helen Dunmore and Fiona Sampson
 * 2013 – Imtiaz Dharker, Ian Duhig and Vicki Feaver
 * 2012 – Carol Ann Duffy, Michael Longley and David Morley
 * 2011 – Gillian Clarke, Stephen Knight and Dennis O'Driscoll
 * 2010 – Bernardine Evaristo, Anne Stevenson and Michael Symmons Roberts
 * 2009 – Simon Armitage, Colette Bryce and Penelope Shuttle
 * 2008 – Lavinia Greenlaw, Tobias Hill and Andrew Motion
 * 2007 – Sujata Bhatt, W. N. Herbert and Peter Porter
 * 2006 – Sophie Hannah, Gwyneth Lewis and Sean O'Brien
 * 2005 – David Constantine, Kate Clanchy and Jane Draycott
 * 2004 – Douglas Dunn, Paul Farley and Carol Rumens
 * 2003 – David Harsent, Mimi Khalvati and George Szirtes
 * 2002 – Michael Longley, Fred D’Aguiar and Deryn Rees-Jones
 * 2001 – John Burnside, Helen Dunmore and Maurice Riordan
 * 2000 – Paul Muldoon, Glyn Maxwell and Kathleen Jamie
 * 1999 – Blake Morrison, Selima Hill and Jamie McKendrick
 * 1998 – Bernard O’Donoghue, Simon Armitage and Maura Dooley
 * 1997 – Gillian Clarke, Sean O’Brien and Hugo Williams
 * 1996 – Andrew Motion, Helen Dunmore and Ruth Padel
 * 1995 – James Fenton, Maura Dooley and Liz Lochhead
 * 1994 – Elaine Feinstein, Ciaran Carson, Robert Crawford, John Fuller and Candia McWilliam
 * 1993 – Peter Porter, Fleur Adcock, Edna Longley, Robert Crawford and John Lucas

2020s
2023


 * Self-Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant (Carcanet Press)
 * More Sky by Joe Carrick-Varty (Carcanet Press)
 * A Change in the Air by Jane Clarke (Bloodaxe Books)
 * The Ink Cloud Reader by Kit Fan (Carcanet Press)
 * Standing in the Forest of Being Alive by Katie Farris (Pavilion Poetry / Liverpool University Press)
 * School of Instructions by Ishion Hutchinson (Faber & Faber)
 * Hyena! by Fran Lock (Poetry Bus Press)
 * The Map of the World by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (Gallery Press)
 * Balladz by Sharon Olds (Cape Poetry)
 * I Think We’re Alone Now by Abigail Parry (Bloodaxe Books)

2022


 * Quiet by Victoria Adukwei Bulley (Faber & Faber)
 * Ephemeron by Fiona Benson (Cape Poetry)
 * Wilder by Jemma Borg (Pavilion Poetry / Liverpool University Press)
 * The Thirteenth Angel by Philip Gross (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Sonnets for Albert by Anthony Joseph (Bloomsbury Poetry)
 * England's Green by Zaffar Kunial (Faber & Faber)
 * Slide by Mark Pajak (Cape Poetry)
 * bandit country by James Conor Patterson (Picador Poetry)
 * The Room Between Us by Denise Saul (Pavilion Poetry/Liverpool University Press)
 * Manorism by Yomi Sode (Penguin Poetry)

2021


 * Eat or We Both Starve by Victoria Kennefick (Carcanet)
 * Ransom by Michael Symmons Roberts (Cape Poetry)
 * Stones by Kevin Young (Cape Poetry)
 * Men Who Feed Pigeons by Selima Hill (Bloodaxe)
 * The Kids by Hannah Lowe (Bloodaxe)
 * All the Names Given by Raymond Antrobus (Picador)
 * A Blood Condition by Kayo Chingonyi (Chatto & Windus)
 * single window by Daniel Sluman (Nine Arches Press)
 * C+nto & Othered Poems by Joelle Taylor (Westbourne Press) 
 * A Year in the New Life by Jack Underwood (Faber & Faber)

2020
 * Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz (Faber & Faber)
 * Deformations by Sasha Dugdale (Carcanet Press)
 * Shine, Darling by Ella Frears (Offord Road Books)
 * RENDANG by Will Harris (Granta Poetry)
 * Love Minus Love by Wayne Holloway-Smith (Bloodaxe Books)
 * How to Wash a Heart by Bhanu Kapil (Liverpool University Press / Pavilion Poetry)
 * Life Without Air by Daisy Lafarge (Granta Poetry)
 * How the Hell Are Youl by Glyn Maxwell (Picador Poetry)
 * Sometimes I Never Suffered by Shane McCrae (Corsair Poetry)
 * The Martian’s Regress by J. O. Morgan (Cape Poetry)

2010s
2019
 * After the Formalities by Anthony Anaxagorou (Penned in the Margins)
 * Vertigo and Ghost by Fiona Benson (Cape Poetry)
 * Surge by Jay Bernard (Chatto & Windus)
 * The Mizzy by Paul Farley (Picador Poetry)
 * Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky (Faber & Faber)
 * Arias by Sharon Olds (Cape Poetry)
 * The Million-Petalled Flower of Being Here by Vidyan Ravinthiran (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Erato by Deryn Rees-Jones (Seren Books)
 * A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson (Peepal Tree Press)
 * The Caiplie Caves by Karen Solie (Picador Poetry)

2018
 * Insistence by Ailbhe Darcy (Bloodaxe Books)
 * American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins by Terrance Hayes (Penguin)
 * Us by Zaffar Kunial (Faber & Faber)
 * Feel Free by Nick Laird (Faber & Faber)
 * The Distal Point by Fiona Moore (HappenStance)
 * Europa by Sean O’Brien (Picador Poetry)
 * Shrines of Upper Austria by Phoebe Power (Carcanet)
 * Soho by Richard Scott (Faber & Faber)
 * Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith (Penguin)
 * Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan (Faber & Faber)

2017
 * The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx by Tara Bergin (Carcanet)
 * In these Days of Prohibition by Caroline Bird (Carcanet)
 * The Noise of a Fly by Douglas Dunn (Faber & Faber)
 * The Radio by Leontia Flynn (Cape Poetry)
 * So Glad I'm Me by Roddy Lumsden (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Mancunia by Michael Symmons Roberts (Cape Poetry)
 * Diary of the Last Man by Robert Minhinnick (Carcanet)
 * The Abandoned Settlements by James Sheard (Cape Poetry)
 * All My Mad Mothers by Jacqueline Saphra (Nine Arches Press)
 * Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong (Cape Poetry)

2016
 * Void Studies by Rachael Boast (Picador Poetry)
 * Measures of Expatriation by Vahni Capildeo (Carcanet)
 * The Blind Road-Maker by Ian Duhig (Picador Poetry)
 * Interference Pattern by J. O. Morgan (Cape Poetry)
 * The Seasons of Cullen Church by Bernard O'Donoghue (Faber & Faber)
 * Falling Awake by Alice Oswald (Cape Poetry)
 * Jackself by Jacob Polley (Picador Poetry)
 * Say Something Back by Denise Riley (Picador Poetry)
 * Every Little Sound by Ruby Robinson (Pavilion / Liverpool University Press)
 * The Remedies by Katharine Towers (Picador Poetry)

2015
 * Deep Lane by Mark Doty (Cape Poetry)
 * Not in This World by Tracey Herd (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Jutland by Selima Hill (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe (Chatto & Windus)
 * The World Before Snowby Tim Liardet (Carcanet)
 * Waiting for the Past by Les Murray (Carcanet)
 * The Beautiful Librarians by Sean O'Brien (Picador Poetry)
 * 40 Sonnets by Don Paterson (Faber & Faber)
 * Beauty/Beauty by Rebecca Perry (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine (Penguin Poetry)

2014
 * Bright Travellers by Fiona Benson (Cape Poetry)
 * All One Breath by John Burnside (Cape Poetry)
 * Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Glück (Carcanet)
 * Fire Songs by David Harsent (Faber & Faber)
 * The Stairwell by Michael Longley (Cape Poetry)
 * Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth by Ruth Padel (Chatto & Windus)
 * Fauverie by Pascale Petit (Poetry Wales)
 * Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting by Kevin Powers (Little Brown)
 * When God is a Traveller by Arundhathi Subramaniam (Bloodaxe Books)
 * I Knew the Bride by Hugo Williams (Faber & Faber)

2013

The shortlist was announced 23 October 2013.
 * Speak, Old Parrot by Dannie Abse (Hutchinson)
 * At the Time of Partition by Moniza Alvi (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Red Doc> by Anne Carson (Cape Poetry)
 * Parallax by Sinéad Morrissey (Carcanet)
 * Division Street by Helen Mort (Chatto & Windus)
 * Ramayana: A Retelling by Daljit Nagra (Faber & Faber)
 * The Water Stealer by Maurice Riordan (Faber & Faber)
 * Hill of Doors by Robin Robertson (Picador Poetry)
 * Drysalter by Michael Symmons Roberts (Cape Poetry)
 * Bad Machine by George Szirtes (Bloodaxe Books)

2012

The shortlist was announced 23 October 2012.
 * The Death of King Arthur by Simon Armitage (Faber & Faber)
 * Bee Journal by Sean Borodale (Cape Poetry)
 * Ice by Gillian Clarke (Carcanet)
 * The World's Two Smallest Humans by Julia Copus (Faber & Faber)
 * The Dark Film by Paul Farley (Picador Poetry)
 * P L A C E by Jorie Graham (Carcanet)
 * The Overhaul by Kathleen Jamie (Picador Poetry)
 * Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds (Cape Poetry)
 * The Havocs by Jacob Polley (Picador Poetry)
 * Burying the Wren by Deryn Rees-Jones (Seren Books)

2011
 * Memorial by Alice Oswald (Faber & Faber) (withdrawn by the author in protest)
 * Black Cat Bone by John Burnside (Cape Poetry)
 * The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy (Picador Poetry)
 * Profit and Loss by Leontia Flynn (Cape Poetry)
 * Night by David Harsent (Faber & Faber)
 * Armour by John Kinsella (withdrawn by the author in protest) (Picador Poetry)
 * Grace by Esther Morgan (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!! by Daljit Nagra (Faber & Faber)
 * November by Sean O'Brien (Picador Poetry)
 * Farmer's Cross by Bernard O'Donoghue (Faber & Faber)

2010
 * Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage (Faber & Faber)
 * The Mirabelles by Annie Freud (Picador Poetry)
 * You by John Haynes (Seren Books)
 * Human Chain by Seamus Heaney (Faber & Faber)
 * What the Water Gave Me by Pascale Petit (Seren Books)
 * The Wrecking Light by Robin Robertson (Picador Poetry)
 * Rough Music by Fiona Sampson (Carcanet)
 * Phantom Noise by Brian Turner (Bloodaxe Books)
 * White Egrets by Derek Walcott (Faber & Faber)
 * New Light for the Old Dark by Sam Willetts (Cape Poetry)

2000s
2009
 * The Sun-fish by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (Gallery Press)
 * Continental Shelf by Fred D'Aguiar (Carcanet)
 * Over by Jane Draycott (Carcanet)
 * The Water Table by Philip Gross (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Through the Square Window by Sinéad Morrissey (Carcanet)
 * One Secret Thing by Sharon Olds (Cape Poetry)
 * Weeds & Wild Flowers by Alice Oswald (Faber & Faber)
 * A Scattering by Christopher Reid (Areté)
 * The Burning of the Books and Other Poems by George Szirtes (Bloodaxe Books)
 * West End Final by Hugo Williams (Faber & Faber)

2008
 * Europa by Moniza Alvi (Bloodaxe Books)
 * The Glass Swarm by Peter Bennet (Flambard Press)
 * For All We Know by Ciarán Carson (Gallery Press)
 * Full Volume by Robert Crawford (Cape Poetry)
 * Life Under Water by Maura Dooley (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Theories and Apparitions by Mark Doty (Cape Poetry)
 * Nigh-No-Place by Jen Hadfield (Bloodaxe Books)
 * The Lost Leader by Mick Imlah (Faber & Faber)
 * Hide Now by Glyn Maxwell (Picador Poetry)
 * Yellow Studio by Stephen Romer (Carcanet)

2007
 * The Speed of Dark by Ian Duhig (Picador Poetry)
 * Hawks and Doves by Alan Gillis (Gallery Press)
 * Pessimism for Beginners by Sophie Hannah (Carcanet)
 * The Meanest Flower by Mimi Khalvati (Carcanet)
 * Public Dream by Frances Leviston (Picador Poetry)
 * The Pomegranates of Kandahar by Sarah Maguire (Chatto & Windus)
 * A Book of Lives by Edwin Morgan (Carcanet)
 * The Drowned Book by Sean O'Brien (Picador Poetry)
 * Common Prayer by Fiona Sampson (Carcanet)
 * Black Moon by Matthew Sweeney (Cape Poetry)

2006
 * Tyrannosaurus Rex versus The Corduroy Kid by Simon Armitage (Faber & Faber)
 * Tramp in Flames by Paul Farley (Picador Poetry)
 * District and Circle by Seamus Heaney (Faber & Faber)
 * Bad Shaman Blues by W. N. Herbert (Bloodaxe Books)
 * After by Jane Hirshfield (Bloodaxe Books)
 * The Blood Choir by Tim Liardet (Seven Books)
 * Horse Latitudes by Paul Muldoon (Faber & Faber)
 * Swithering by Robin Robertson (Picador Poetry)
 * Redgrove's Wife by Penelope Shuttle (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Dear Room by Hugo Williams (Faber & Faber)

2005
 * Take Me with You by Polly Clark (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy (Picador Poetry)
 * Intimates by Helen Farish (Cape Poetry)
 * Legion by David Harsent (Faber & Faber)
 * The State of the Prisons by Sinéad Morrissey (Carcanet)
 * Woods etc by Alice Oswald (Faber & Faber)
 * The Huntress by Pascale Petit (Seren Books)
 * The Movement of Bodies by Sheenagh Pugh (Seren Books)
 * Stolen Love Behaviour by John Stammers (Picador Poetry)
 * We Were Pedestrians by Gerard Woodward (Chatto & Windus)

2004
 * The Full Indian Rope Trick by Colette Bryce (Picador Poetry)
 * The Never-Never by Kathryn Gray (Seven Books)
 * he Tree House by Kathleen Jamie (Picador Poetry)
 * Snow Water by Michael Longley (Cape Poetry)
 * The Soho Leopard by Ruth Padel (Chatto & Windus)
 * The Road to Inver by Tom Paulin (Faber & Faber)
 * Afterburner by Peter Porter (Picador Poetry)
 * Corpus by Michael Symmons Roberts (Cape Poetry)
 * Reel by George Szirtes (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Blues by John Hartley Williams (Cape Poetry)

2003
 * Nine Horses by Billy Collins (Picador Poetry)
 * Manhandling the Deity by John F. Deane (Carcanet)
 * The Lammas Hireling by Ian Duhig (Picador Poetry)
 * Minsk by Lavinia Greenlaw (Faber & Faber)
 * Ink Stone by Jamie McKendrick (Faber & Faber)
 * Outiving by Bernard O'Donoghue (Chatto & Windus)
 * Landing Light by Don Paterson (Faber & Faber)
 * The Brink by Jacob Polley (Picador Poetry)
 * For and After by Christopher Reid (Faber & Faber)
 * Hard Water by Jean Sprackland (Cape Poetry)

2002
 * The Universal Home Doctor by Simon Armitage (Faber & Faber)
 * The Light Trap by John Burnside (Cape Poetry)
 * The Ice Age by Paul Farley, (Picador Poetry)
 * Marriage by David Harsent (Faber & Faber)
 * The Orchards of Syon by Geoffrey Hill, (Penguin)
 * A Rough Climate by E. A. Markham (Anvil Press)
 * Between Here and There by Sinéad Morrissey (Carcanet)
 * Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon (Faber & Faber)
 * Dart by Alice Oswald (Faber & Faber)
 * Voodoo Shop by Ruth Padel (Chatto & Windus)

2001
 * Lintel by Gillian Allnutt (Bloodaxe Books)
 * The Age of Cardboard and String by Charles Boyle (Faber & Faber)
 * The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson (Cape Poetry)
 * Electric Light by Seamus Heaney (Faber & Faber)
 * Speech! Speech! by Geoffrey Hill (Penguin)
 * Bunny by Selima Hill (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Landscape with Chainsaw by James Lasdun (Cape Poetry)
 * Downriver by Sean O'Brien (Picador Poetry)
 * The Zoo Father by Pascale Petit (Seren Books)
 * Burning Babylon by Michael Symmons Roberts (Cape Poetry)

2000
 * The Asylum Dance by John Burnside (Cape Poetry)
 * Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson (Cape Poetry)
 * Conjure by Michael Donaghy (Picador Poetry)
 * The Year’s Afternoon by Douglas Dunn (Faber & Faber)
 * Boss Cupid by Thom Gunn (Faber & Faber)
 * The Drift by Alan Jenkins (Chatto & Windus)
 * The Weather in Japan by Michael Longley (Cape Poetry)
 * The Book of Love by Roddy Lumsden (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Granny Scarecrow by Anne Stevenson (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Tiepolo’s Hound by Derek Walcott (Faber & Faber)

1990s

1999
 * Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson (Cape Poetry)
 * The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy (Picador Poetry)
 * Greetings to our Friends in Brazil by Paul Durcan (Harvill Press)
 * Approximately Nowhere by Michael Hofmann (Faber & Faber)
 * Jizzen by Kathleen Jamie (Picador Poetry)
 * The Tightrope Wedding by Michael Laskey (Smith/Doorstop)
 * Here Nor There by Bernard O'Donoghue (Chatto & Windus)
 * The Wind Dog by Tom Paulin (Faber & Faber)
 * Repair by C. K. Williams (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Billy's Rain by Hugo Williams (Faber & Faber)

1998
 * The Red Wardrobe by Sarah Corbett (Seren Books)
 * Bill of Rights by Fred D'Aguiar (Chatto & Windus)
 * A Bird's Idea of Flight by David Harsent (Faber & Faber)
 * Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes (Faber & Faber)
 * Off Colour by Jackie Kay (Bloodaxe Books)
 * The Breakage by Glyn Maxwell (Faber & Faber)
 * Hay by Paul Muldoon (Faber & Faber)
 * Rembrandt Would Have Loved You by Ruth Padel (Chatto & Windus)
 * My Life Asleep by Jo Shapcott (OUP / Oxford Poetry)
 * Wild Root by Ken Smith (Bloodaxe Books)

1997
 * Looking Back by Fleur Adcock (OUP / Oxford Poetry)
 * Nantucket and the Angel by Gillian Allnutt (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Bestiary by Helen Dunmore (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Violet by Selima Hill (Bloodaxe Books)
 * The Marble Fly by Jamie McKendrick (OUP / Oxford Poetry)
 * God's Gift to Women by Don Paterson (Faber & Faber)
 * Work in Regress by Peter Reading (Bloodaxe Books)
 * The Bridal Suite by Matthew Sweeney (Cape Poetry)
 * The Bounty by Derek Walcott (Faber & Faber)
 * Canada by John Hartley Williams (Bloodaxe Books)

1996
 * Opera Et Cetera by Ciaran Carson (Bloodaxe Books / Gallery Press)
 * Kissing A Bone by Maura Dooley (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Stones and Fires by John Fuller (Chatto & Windus)
 * The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney (Faber & Faber)
 * Dream City Cinema by Stephen Knight (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Blue Coffee by Adrian Mitchell (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Subhuman Redneck Poems by Les Murray (Carcanet)
 * The Thing in the Gap Stone Stile by Alice Oswald (OUP / Oxford Poetry)
 * Expanded Universes by Christopher Reid (Faber & Faber)
 * The Clever Daughter by Susan Wicks (Faber & Faber)

1995
 * The Dead Sea Poems by Simon Armitage (Faber & Faber)
 * My Alexandria by Mark Doty (Cape Poetry)
 * The Mersey Goldfish by Ian Duhig (Bloodaxe Books)
 * The Ghost Orchid by Michael Longley (Cape Poetry)
 * Rest for the Wicked by Glyn Maxwell (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Gunpowder by Bernard O’Donoghue (Chatto & Windus)
 * Truffle Beds by Katherine Pierpoint (Faber & Faber)
 * A Word from the Loki by Maurice Riordan (Faber & Faber)
 * Powder Tower by Jackie Wills (Arc Poetry)
 * Could Have Been Funny by Glyn Wright (Spike)

1994
 * The Myth of the Twin by John Burnside (Cape Poetry)
 * In a Time of Violence by Eavan Boland (Carcanet)
 * Forked Tongue by W. N. Herbert (Bloodaxe Books)
 * The Queen of Sheba by Kathleen Jamie (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Spring Forest by Geoffrey Lehmann (Angus & Robertson)
 * The Annals of Chile by Paul Muldoon (Faber & Faber)
 * Walking a Line by Tom Paulin (Faber & Faber)
 * Millenial Fables by Peter Porter (OUP / Oxford Poetry)
 * Dock Leaves by Hugo Williams (OUP / Oxford Poetry)
 * After the Deafening by Gerard Woodward (Chatto & Windus)

1993
 * The Country at My Shoulder by Moniza Alvi (OUP / Oxford Poetry)
 * Friend of Heraclitus by Patricia Beer (Carcanet)
 * First Language by Ciaran Carson (Gallery Press)
 * Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy (Anvil Press)
 * Dante’s Drum Kit by Douglas Dunn (Faber & Faber)
 * Out of Danger by James Fenton (Penguin)
 * Flowering Limbs by Stephen Knight (Bloodaxe Books)
 * Translations from the Natural World by Les Murray (Carcanet)
 * The Father by Sharon Olds (Secker & Warburg)
 * Nil Nil by Don Paterson (Faber & Faber)