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The Cholmondeley Awards (/ ˈ tʃ ʌ m l i / CHUM-lee) are annual awards for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966. Since 1991 the award has been made to four poets each year, to the total value of £8000.
Sir Derek Alton Walcott KCSL OBE OM OCC (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright.. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. [1] His works include the Homeric epic poem Omeros (1990), which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement."
Stephen Breslow of University of Tampa had since the mid-1980s predicted that Walcott would become a Nobel laureate in literature and explained that the likely reasons why Swedish Academy chose Derek Walcott was because his work had "a strong regional voice that transcends its topical locality, through the depth and breadth of its poetic resonance and through its global human implication."
Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry; The Poetry.com Contest (First Prize=$1000) Asia ... Cholmondeley Award; Costa Poetry Award, formerly the Whitbread Poetry award;
Costa Award (formerly the Whitbread Awards) for poetry : John Haynes (poet), Letter to Patience (Seren, 2006), a book-length poem; (Judges: Elaine Feinstein, Jeremy Noel-Tod and Deryn Rees-Jones) Cholmondeley Award : Judith Kazantzis , Robert Nye , Penelope Shuttle
Cholmondeley Award: James Berry, Sujata Bhatt, Michael Hulse, Derek Mahon; Eric Gregory Award: Roddy Lumsden, Glyn Maxwell, Stephen Smith, Wayne Burrows, Jackie Kay; Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Judith Wright; Whitbread Award for poetry (United Kingdom): Michael Longley, Gorse Fires; National Poetry Competition : John Levett for A Shrunken Head
Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma and a monetary award prize that has varied throughout the years. [3] In 1901, the first laureate Sully Prudhomme received 150,782 SEK, which is equivalent to 8,823,637.78 SEK in January 2018. The award is presented in Stockholm at an annual ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death. [4]
Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes; David Wright, A View of the North; Edmund Leo Wright, The Horwich Hennets (the poet invented the "hennet", a 12-line hendecasyllabic verse with the rhymes "abacbcde deff") Paul Yates, Sky Made of Stone