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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."
Cholmondeley Award : John Heath-Stubbs, Sean O'Brien, John Whitworth; Eric Gregory Award : Michael Symmons Roberts, Gwyneth Lewis, Adrian Blackledge, Simon Armitage, Robert Crawford; Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry : Derek Walcott; National Poetry Competition : Martin Reed for The Widow's Dream
Arthur Rense Prize – in 1998, the $20,000 award was established to honor "an exceptional poet" once every third year; Michael Braude Award for Light Verse – $5,000 biennial award is given "for light verse written in English regardless of the country of origin of the writer"
Cholmondeley Award: Derek Walcott, Tony Harrison Eric Gregory Award : Gavin Bantock , Jeremy Hooker , Jenny King, Neil Powell , Landeg E. White Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry : Stevie Smith
Cholmondeley Award: Patric Dickinson, Philip Larkin; Eric Gregory Award: John Beynon, Ian Caws, James Fenton, Keith Harris, David Howarth, Philip Pacey; Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: John Heath-Stubbs
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
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