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Costa Book Award for Poetry

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The Costa Book Award for Poetry, formerly known as the Whitbread Award (1971–2006), was an annual literary award for poetry collections, part of the Costa Book Awards. The award concluded in 2022.[1][2]

Recipients

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Costa Books of the Year are distinguished with a bold font and a blue ribbon (Blue ribbon). Award winners are listed in bold.

Costa Book Award for Poetry winners and finalists[3]
Year Author Title Result Ref.
1971 Geoffrey Hill Mercian Hymns Winner
No award presented 1972-1984
1985 Douglas Dunn Elegies Blue ribbon 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 Blue ribbon 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 Blue ribbon 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 Blue ribbon 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 Blue ribbon 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 [4]
Seamus Heaney District and Circle
Hugo Williams Dear Room
2007 Jean Sprackland Tilt Winner [5]
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 [6]
Ciarán Carson For All We Know Shortlist
Kathryn Simmonds Sunday at the Skin Launderette
Greta Stoddart Salvation Jane
2009 Christopher Reid A Scattering Blue ribbon Winner [7][8]
Clive James Angels Over Elsinore Shortlist
Katharine Kilalea One Eye'd Leigh
Ruth Padel Darwin: A Life in Poems
2010 Jo Shapcott Of Mutability Blue ribbon Winner [9][10]
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 [11][12]
David Harsent Night Shortlist [13]
Jackie Kay Fiere
Sean O'Brien November
2012 Kathleen Jamie The Overhaul Winner [14][15]
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 [16][17]
Clive James Dante, The Divine Comedy Shortlist [18][19]
Helen Mort Division Street
Robin Robertson Hill of Doors
2014 Jonathan Edwards My Family and Other Superheroes Winner [20][21]
Colette Bryce The Whole and Rain-domed Universe Shortlist [22][23]
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 [24]
Andrew McMillan Physical Shortlist [25]
Kate Miller The Observances
Neil Rollinson Talking Dead
2016 Alice Oswald Falling Awake Winner [26]
Melissa Lee-Houghton Shortlist [27]
Denise Riley
Kae Tempest
2017 Helen Dunmore Inside the Wave Blue ribbon Winner [28][29]
Kayo Chingonyi Kumukanda Shortlist [30][31]
Sinéad Morrissey On Balance
Richard Osmond Useful Verses
2018 J. O. Morgan Assurances Winner [32][33]
Zaffar Kunial Us Shortlist [34]
Richard Scott Soho
Hannah Sullivan Three Poems
2019 Mary Jean Chan Flèche Winner [35][36]
Jay Bernard Surge Shortlist [37]
Paul Farley The Mizzy
John McCullough Reckless Paper Birds
2020 Eavan Boland The Historians Winner [38][39][40]
Caroline Bird The Air Year Shortlist
Rachel Long My Darling from the Lions
Martha Sprackland Citadel
2021 Hannah Lowe The Kids Blue ribbon Winner [41][42][43]
Raymond Antrobus All the Names Given Shortlist [44]
Kayo Chingonyi A Blood Condition
Victoria Kennefick Eat or We Both Starve

References

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