Costa Book Award for Poetry
The Costa Book Award for Poetry, formerly known as the Whitbread Award (1971-2006), is an annual literary award for poetry collections. The awards are given both for high literary merit but also for works that are enjoyable reading and whose aim is to convey the enjoyment of reading to the widest possible audience. As such, they are a more populist literary prize than the Booker Prize.
The name was changed to the Costa Books Awards when Costa Coffee, then a subsidiary of Whitbread, took over sponsorship.[1][2]
Recipients
Costa Books of the Year are distinguished with a bold font and a blue ribbon (). Award winners are listed in bold.
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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1971 | Geoffrey Hill | Mercian Hymns | Winner | |
No award presented 1972-1984 | ||||
1985 | Douglas Dunn | Elegies ![]() |
Winner | |
1986 | Peter Reading | Stet | Winner | |
1987 | Seamus Heaney | The Haw Lantern | Winner | |
1988 | Peter Porter | The Automatic Oracle | Winner | |
1989 | Michael Donaghy | Shibboleth | Winner | |
1990 | Paul Durcan | Daddy, Daddy | Winner | |
1991 | Michael Longley | Gorse Fires | Winner | |
1992 | Tony Harrison | The Gaze of the Gorgon | Winner | |
1993 | Carol Ann Duffy | Mean Time | Winner | |
1994 | James Fenton | Out of Danger | Winner | |
1995 | Bernard O'Donoghue | Gunpowder | Winner | |
Simon Armitage | The Dead Sea Poems | Shortlist | ||
Tony Harrison | The Shadow of Hiroshima and other film/poems | |||
Glyn Maxwell | Rest for the Wicked | |||
1996 | Seamus Heaney | The Spirit Level ![]() |
Winner | |
U. A. Fanthorpe | Safe As Houses | Shortlist | ||
Alice Oswald | The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile | |||
Christopher Reid | Expanded Universes | |||
Pauline Stainer | The Wound-dresser’s Dream | |||
1997 | Ted Hughes | Tales from Ovid ![]() |
Winner | |
Simon Armitage | CloudCuckooLand | Shortlist | ||
Selima Hill | Sugar-Paper blue Violet | |||
Christopher Reid | Expanded Universes | |||
Peter Redgrove | Assembling a Ghost | |||
1998 | Ted Hughes | Birthday Letters ![]() |
Winner | |
Philip Gross | The Wasting Game | Shortlist | ||
Paul Farley | The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See you | |||
1999 | Seamus Heaney | Beowulf: A New Verse Translation ![]() |
Winner | |
Michael Hofmann | Approximately Nowhere | Shortlist | ||
Ted Hughes | Alcestis | |||
Don Paterson | The Eyes | |||
2000 | John Burnside | The Asylum Dance | Winner | |
Michael Donaghy | Conjure | Shortlist | ||
R F Langley | Collected Poems | |||
Anne Stevenson | Granny Scarecrow | |||
Maurice Riordan | Floods | |||
2001 | Selima Hill | Bunny | Winner | |
Charles Boyle | The Age of Cardboard and String | Shortlist | ||
Wendy Cope | If I don't know | |||
John Stammers | Panoramic Lounge-Bar | |||
2002 | Paul Farley | The Ice Age | Winner | |
David Constantine | Something for the Ghosts | Shortlist | ||
Ruth Padel | Voodoo Shop | |||
Sheenagh Pugh | The Beautiful Lie | |||
2003 | Don Paterson | Landing Light | Winner | |
Lavinia Greenlaw | Minsk | Shortlist | ||
Jamie McKendrick | Ink Stone | |||
Jean Sprackland | Hard Water | |||
2004 | Michael Symmons Roberts | Corpus | Winner | |
Leontia Flynn | These Days | Shortlist | ||
John Fuller | Ghosts | |||
Matthew Hollis | Ground Water | |||
Michael Symmons Roberts | Corpus | |||
2005 | Christopher Logue | Cold Calls | Winner | |
David Harsent | Legion | Shortlist | ||
Richard Price | Lucky Day | |||
Jane Yeh | Marabou | |||
2006 | John Haynes | Letter to Patience | Winner | |
Vicki Feaver | The Book of Blood | Shortlist | ||
Seamus Heaney | District and Circle | |||
Hugo Williams | Dear Room | |||
2007 | Jean Sprackland | Tilt | Winner | |
Ian Duhig | The Speed of Dark | Shortlist | ||
John Fuller | The Space of Joy | |||
Daljit Nagra | Look We Have Coming to Dover! | |||
2008 | Adam Foulds | The Broken Word | Winner | |
Ciarán Carson | For All We Know | Shortlist | ||
Kathryn Simmonds | Sunday at the Skin Launderette | |||
Greta Stoddart | Salvation Jane | |||
2009 | Christopher Reid | A Scattering ![]() |
Winner | |
Clive James | Angels Over Elsinore | Shortlist | ||
Katharine Kilalea | One Eye'd Leigh | |||
Ruth Padel | Darwin: A Life in Poems | |||
2010 | Jo Shapcott | Of Mutability ![]() |
Winner | |
Roy Fisher | Standard Midland | Shortlist | ||
Robin Robertson | The Wrecking Light | |||
Sam Willetts | New Light for the Old Dark | |||
2011 | Carol Ann Duffy | The Bees | Winner | |
David Harsent | Night | Shortlist | ||
Jackie Kay | Fiere | |||
Sean O'Brien | November | |||
2012 | Kathleen Jamie | The Overhaul | Winner | |
Sean Borodale | Bee Journal | Shortlist | ||
Julia Copus | The World's Two Smallest Humans | |||
Selima Hill | People Who Like Meatballs | |||
2013 | Michael Symmons Roberts | Drysalter | Winner | [3] |
Clive James | Dante, The Divine Comedy | Shortlist | [4] | |
Helen Mort | Division Street | |||
Robin Robertson | Hill of Doors | |||
2014 | Jonathan Edwards | My Family and Other Superheroes | Winner | [5] |
Colette Bryce | The Whole and Rain-domed Universe | Shortlist | [6] | |
Lavinia Greenlaw | A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde | |||
Kei Miller | The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion | |||
2015 | Don Paterson | 40 Sonnets | Winner | |
Andrew McMillan | Physical | Shortlist | ||
Kate Miller | The Observances | |||
Neil Rollinson | Talking Dead | |||
2016 | Alice Oswald | Falling Awake | Winner | |
2017 | Helen Dunmore | Inside the Wave ![]() |
Winner | |
2018 | J. O. Morgan | Assurances | Winner | [7] |
2019 | Mary Jean Chan | Flèche | Winner | [8] |
2020 | Eavan Boland | The Historians | Winner | [9] |
2021 | Hannah Lowe | The Kids ![]() |
Winner | [10] |
See also
- Costa Book Award for Biography
- Costa Book Award for Children's Books
- Costa Book Award for First Novel
- Costa Book Award for Novel
- Costa Book Award for Short Story
- Costa Book Awards
References
- "Costa Book Awards" (PDF). Costa Book Awards. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-15. Retrieved 2022-02-06.
- "Costa (Formerly Whitbread) Book Awards Shortlists 1995-present" (PDF). Costa Book Awards. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-11-24. Retrieved 2022-02-06.
- "Former winners recapture Costa prize". BBC News. 6 January 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
- Mark Brown (26 November 2013). "Costa book awards 2013: late author on all-female fiction shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved November 27, 2013.
- Alice Vincent (5 January 2015). "Wartime adaptation of Five Children and It wins in Costa Book Award categories". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved January 12, 2015.
- Oliver Arnoldi (18 November 2014). "2014 Costa Book Awards shortlists announced". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved January 12, 2015.
- "BBC Radio 4 - Front Row - The Cut Out Girl by Bart van Es named Costa Book of the Year 2018". BBC. Retrieved 2022-02-06.
- Doyle, Martin (6 January 2020). "Costa Book Awards 2019 winners revealed". The Irish Times. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
- "Costa Book of the Year: 'Utterly original' Mermaid of Black Conch wins". BBC. January 2021. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
- "Costa Book Awards 2021 category winners announced". Costa. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
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