Ted Hughes Award
The Ted Hughes Award was an annual literary prize given to a living UK poet for new work in poetry. It was awarded each spring in recognition of a work from the previous year. It was a project which ran alongside Carol Ann Duffy's tenure as Poet Laureate, which ended when Duffy finished her 10 years as Poet Laureate in 2019[1]
Background
The award was established in 2009 with the permission of Carol Hughes in honour of British Poet Laureate
Winners
Year | Judges | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2009 | Alice Oswald with etchings by Jessica Greenman | Weeds and Wildflowers | Winner | [3][7] | |
Chris Agee | Next To Nothing | Shortlist | |||
Dannie Abse | New Selected Poems 1949-2009: Anniversary Collection | Shortlist | |||
John Glenday | Grain | Shortlist | |||
Paul Farley | Field Recordings: BBC Poems (1998-2008) | Shortlist | |||
Jackie Kay | The Maw Broon Monologues | Shortlist | [7] | ||
Andrew Motion | The Cinder Path | Shortlist | [7] | ||
2010 | Kaite O'Reilly | The Persians[a] | Winner | [8][9] | |
Martin Figura | Whistle | Shortlist | [9] | ||
Christopher Reid | Song of Lunch[b] | Shortlist | [9] | ||
David Swann with wood-cuts by Clare Dunne | The Privilege of Rain[c] | Shortlist | [9] | ||
Katharine Towers | The Floating Man | Shortlist | [9] | ||
2011 | Lavinia Greenlaw | Audio Obscura | Winner | [10][11] | |
Simon Armitage | Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster | Shortlist | [11] | ||
Julia Copus | Ghost Lines | Shortlist | [11] | ||
Robert Crawford | Simonides | Shortlist | [11] | ||
Andrew Motion | Laurels and Donkeys | Shortlist | [11] | ||
Christopher Reid | Airs and Ditties of No Man’s Land | Shortlist | [11] | ||
2012 | Kae Tempest | Brand New Ancients | Winner | [12][13][14] | |
Colette Bryce | Ballasting the Ark | Shortlist | [15] | ||
Roy Fisher | Locklines | Shortlist | [15] | ||
Ruth Padel | The Mara Crossing | Shortlist | [15] | ||
Mario Petrucci | Tales from the Bridge | Shortlist | [15] | ||
Denise Riley | A Part Song | Shortlist | [15] | ||
Tamar Yoseloff | Formerly | Shortlist | [15] | ||
2013 | Maggie Sawkins | Zones of Avoidance[d] | Winner | [16] | |
Steve Ely | Oswald’s Book of Hours | Shortlist | [16] | ||
Chris McCabe | Pharmapoetica | Shortlist | [16] | ||
Hannah Silva | Total Man | Shortlist | [16] | ||
Zoë Skoulding | The Museum of Disappearing Sounds | Shortlist | [16] | ||
2014 | Sir Andrew Motion
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Coming Home[e] | Winner | [17][18] | |
Patience Agbabi | Telling Tales | Shortlist | [19] | ||
Imtiaz Dharker | Over the Moon | Shortlist | [19] | ||
Carrie Etter | Imagined Sons | Shortlist | [19] | ||
Alice Oswald | Tithonus | Shortlist | [19] | ||
2015 | David Morley | The Invisible Gift: Selected Poems | Winner | [20] | |
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi and Sarah Maguire | He Tells Tales of Meroe | Shortlist | |||
Chris Beckett | Sketches from the Poem Road | Shortlist | |||
Elizabeth Burns | Clay | Shortlist | |||
Kate Clanchy | We Are Writing a Poem about Home | Shortlist | |||
Carole Satyamurti | Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling | Shortlist | |||
2016 | Hollie McNish | Nobody Told Me | Winner | [21][22] | |
Will Eaves | The Inevitable Gift Shop | Shortlist | [23] | ||
Salena Godden | LIVEwire | Shortlist | [23] | ||
Melissa Lee-Houghton | Sunshine | Shortlist | [23] | ||
Harry Man | Finders Keepers | Shortlist | [23] | ||
Hollie McNish | Nobody Told Me | Shortlist | [23] | ||
Caroline Smith | The Immigration Handbook | Shortlist | [23] | ||
2017 | Jay Bernard | Surge: Side A | Winner | [24][25][26] | |
Caroline Bird | In These Days of Prohibition | Shortlist | |||
Kayo Chingonyi | Chingonyi for Kumukanda | Shortlist | |||
Inua Ellams | #Afterhours | Shortlist | |||
Matthew Francis | The Mabinogi | Shortlist | |||
Antony Owen | The Nagasaki Elder | Shortlist | |||
Greta Stoddart | Who’s There? | Shortlist | |||
2018 | Judges:
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Raymond Antrobus | The Perseverance | Winner | [27] |
Tishani Doshi | Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods | Shortlist | |||
Roy McFarlane | The Healing Next Time | Shortlist | |||
Susan Richardson | Words the Turtle Taught Me | Shortlist | |||
Hannah Sullivan | Three Poems | Shortlist |
Notes
- ^ The Persians is a site specific retelling of Aeschylus’ play by the same name first produced in 472 BCE.
- ^ For Song of Lunch, Reid worked with director Niall MacCormick to adapt his narrative poem The Song of Lunch into a 50-minute BBC2 film.
- ^ The Privilege of Rain is a collection compiled following a year as Writer in Residence at HM Prison Nottingham.
- ^ Zones of Avoidance is a live production featuring multimedia written and performed by Sawkins and directed by Mark Hewitt
- ^ The Coming Home radio programme featured poetry by Motion based on recordings he made of British soldiers returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
References
- ^ "Ted Hughes Award".
- ^ Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry History. Archived 19 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b "The Blagger's Guide To...The Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry". The Independent. 13 March 2011. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
- ^ Ted Hughes Award, hosted by the Poetry Society Archived 26 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Website of the British Monarchy, "New poetry award announced", 9 July 2009
- ^ "Ted Hughes Award". The Poetry Society. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ^ a b c "Awards: Ted Hughes". Shelf Awareness. 31 March 2010. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ^ "Ceredigion poet Kaite O'Reilly wins Ted Hughes Award". BBC News. 25 March 2011.
- ^ a b c d e "The Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry: Kaite O'Reilly is announced the winner". The Poetry Society. 2011. Archived from the original on 26 April 2011. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ^ Flood, Alison (30 March 2012). "Lavinia Greenlaw wins Ted Hughes award 2011 for new work in poetry". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f "The Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry Winner: Lavinia Greenlaw for Audio Obscura". The Poetry Society. Archived from the original on 6 August 2012. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ^ "Awards: Ted Hughes Innovation in Poetry". Shelf Awareness . 28 March 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ^ "Judges Maura Dooley, Ian Duhig and Cornelia Parker have presented the 2012 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry to Kate Tempest for Brand New Ancients!". The Poetry Society. 3 June 2013. Archived from the original on 3 June 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f "The Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry Shortlist". The Poetry Society. Archived from the original on 14 May 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ^ a b c d e "Congratulations to Maggie Sawkins who has won the Ted Hughes Award for Zones of Avoidance". The Poetry Society. Archived from the original on 11 August 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ^ Brown, Mark (2 April 2015). "Andrew Motion wins Ted Hughes award for poetry work about returning soldiers". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
- ^ "Awards: Hugo Nominations; Ted Hughes Winner". Shelf Awareness . 6 April 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Awards: Blue Peter; Kitschies; Ted Hughes". Shelf Awareness. 6 March 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ^ "Awards: PEN Hessell-Tiltman History; Ted Hughes Poetry". Shelf Awareness. 4 April 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ^ "Awards: Ted Hughes; RSL Encore". Shelf Awareness. 30 March 2017. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- Poetry Society. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f "Awards: IACP Cookbook Winners; Ted Hughes Poetry Shortlist". Shelf Awareness. 13 March 2017. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ^ "Awards: Indies Choice/E.B. White; Bookstore, Rep of the Year; Ted Hughes Poetry". Shelf Awareness. 29 March 2018. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ^ "Jay Bernard wins Ted Hughes new poetry award". BBC News Online. BBC. 28 March 2018. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
- ^ Lea, Richard (28 March 2018). "Jay Bernard's 'personal and brave' poetry wins Ted Hughes award". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
- ^ "Awards: Ted Hughes Poetry Winner". Shelf Awareness. 29 March 2019. Retrieved 16 February 2023.