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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 New Criterion Poetry Prize – given by The New Criterion magazine O. B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize – awarded by the Folger Shakespeare Library to a U.S. poet who has published at least one book within the last five years, has made important contributions as a teacher, and is committed to furthering the understanding of poetry
The author of four books of poetry, McCullough was the winner of the 2020 Hawthornden Prize for Literature as well as the 2012 Polari First Book Prize. He was shortlisted for both the Costa Poetry Award (2019) and a Forward Prize (2021).
Ocean Vuong is a Vietnamese-American writer who has received numerous awards and nominations. His three separate poems – Prayer for the Newly Damned, Telemachus, and Self Portrait as Exit Wounds – respectively won the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, the Chad Walsh Poetry Prize, and the Pushcart Prize before being published as a complete collection of poems.
The Poetry Business were established in 1986, [2] and is now "headquartered just a stone's throw from Sheffield's historic cathedral." [3] They publish The North magazine, which was 70 issues old in August 2024, [4] and several imprints, and their poets "have won or been shortlisted for almost every major poetry prize, including the Forward Prize on 11 occasions and 10 Poetry Book Society ...
Sy-Quia is a Ledbury Poetry Critic [8] and has been shortlisted for the Bodley Head Essay Prize. Her debut poetry collection, Amnion, was published by Granta [3] in 2021 and won the Forward Prize for Poetry (Best First Collection, 2022), [9] Somerset Maugham Award, Eric Gregory Award, [10] and was the Poetry Book Society's Winter Recommendation ...
She won the 2015 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize for The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named, and her collection Ordinary Beast was a finalist for the 2018 PEN Open Book Award. [4] Her poem "Pages 22–29, an excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure" ( Poetry London ) won a Forward Prize for Poetry in October 2021. [ 5 ]
In 1986, he founded Forward Publishing with a business partner Neil Mendoza, an independent contract publisher, publishing magazines, children's books and poetry books. He is the author of The Poetry Pharmacy and The Poetry Pharmacy Returns , as well as various other poetry anthologies and a book on golf, The Swing Factory .