Costa Poetry Award

Costa Poetry Award
2017
Winner
Inside the Wave by Helen Dunmore

Shortlist
Kumukanda by Kayo Chingonyi
On Balance by Sinéad Morrissey
Useful Verses by Richard Osmond

2016
Winner
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald

Shortlist
Sunshine by Melissa Lee-Houghton
Say Something Back by Denise Riley
Let Them Eat Chaos by Kate Tempest

2015
Winner
40 Sonnets by Don Paterson

Shortlist
Physical by Andrew McMillan
The Observances by Kate Miller
Talking Dead by Neil Rollinson

2014
Winner
My Family and Other Superheroes by Jonathan Edwards

Shortlist
The Whole and Rain-domed Universe by Colette Bryce
A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde by Lavinia Greenlaw
The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion by Kei Miller

2013
Winner
Drysalter by Michael Symmons Roberts

Shortlist
Dante, The Divine Comedy by Clive James
Division Street by Helen Mort
Hill of Doors by Robin Robertson

2012
Winner
The Overhaul by Kathleen Jamie

Shortlist
Bee Journal by Sean Borodale
The World’s Two Smallest Humans by Julia Copus
People Who Like Meatballs by Selima Hill

2011
Winner
The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy

Shortlist
Night by David Harsent
Fiere by Jackie Kay
November by Sean O'Brien

2010
Winner
Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott *

Shortlist
Standard Midland by Roy Fisher
The Wrecking Light by Robin Robertson
New Light for the Old Dark by Sam Willetts

2009
Winner
A Scattering by Christopher Reid *

Shortlist
Angels over Elsinore by Clive James
One Eye’d Leigh by Katherine Kilalea
Darwin: A Life in Poems by Ruth Padel

2008
Winner
The Broken Word by Adam Foulds

Shortlist
For All We Know by Ciaran Carson
Sunday at the Skin Launderette by Kathryn Simmonds
Salvation Jane by Greta Stoddart

2007
Winner
Tilt by Jean Sprackland

Shortlist
The Speed of Dark by Ian Duhig
The Space of Joy by John Fuller
Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra

2006
Winner
Letter to Patience by John Haynes

Shortlist
The Book of Blood by Vicki Feaver
District and Circle by Seamus Heaney
Dear Room by Hugo Williams

Whitbread Poetry Award

2005
Winner

Cold Calls by Christopher Logue

Shortlist
Legion by David Harsent
Lucky Day by Richard Price
Marabou by Jane Yeh

2004
Winner

Corpus by Michael Symmons Roberts

Shortlist
These Days by Leontia Flynn
Ghosts by John Fuller
Ground Water by Matthew Hollis

2003
Winner

Landing Light by Don Paterson

Shortlist
Minsk by Lavinia Greenlaw
Ink Stone by Jamie McKendrick
Hard Water by Jean Sprackland

2002
Winner

The Ice Age by Paul Farley

Shortlist
Something for the Ghosts by David Constantine
Voodoo Shop by Ruth Padel
The Beautiful Lie by Sheenagh Pugh

2001
Winner

Bunny by Selima Hill

Shortlist
The Age of Cardboard and String by Charles Boyle
If I Don’t Know by Wendy Cope
Panoramic Lounge-Bar by John Stammers

2000
Winner

The Asylum Dance by John Burnside

Shortlist
Conjure by Michael Donaghy
Collected Poems by RF Langley
Floods by Maurice Riordan
Granny Scarecrow by Anne Stevenson

1999
Winner

Beowulf by Seamus Heaney *

Shortlist
Approximately Nowhere by Michael Hofmann
Alcestis by Ted Hughes
The Eyes by Don Paterson

1998
Winner

Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes *

Shortlist
The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See you by Paul Farley
The Wasting Game by Philip Gross

1997
Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes *

Shortlist

CloudCuckooLand by Simon Armitage

Sugar-Paper blue by Ruth Fainlight

Violet by Selima Hill

Assembling a Ghost by Peter Redgrove

1996
Winner

The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney *

Shortlist
Safe As Houses by UA Fanthorpe
The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile by Alice Oswald
Expanded Universes by Christopher Reid
The Wound-dresser’s Dream by Pauline Stainer

1995
Winner

Gunpowder by Bernard O'Donoghue

Shortlist
The Dead Sea Poems by Simon Armitage
The Shadow of Hiroshima and other film/poems by Tony Harrison
Rest for the Wicked by Glyn Maxwell

1994
Winner

Out of Danger by James Fenton

1993
Winner

Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy

1992
Winner

The Gaze of the Gorgon by Tony Harrison

1991
Winner

Gorse Flies by Michael Longley

1990
Winner

Daddy, Daddy by Paul Durcan

1989
Winner

Shibboleth by Michael Donaghy

1988
Winner

The Automatic Oracle by Peter Porter

1987
Winner

The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney

1986
Winner

Stet by Peter Reading

1985
Winner

Elegies by Douglas Dunn *

1971
Winner

Mercian Hymns by Geoffrey Hill

* Book of the Year