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Forward Prizes for Poetry ふぉわーどししょう

Edition 20 (2011)

PoetryPoetry collectionFirst collectionSingle poem (written)Single poem (performed)

Winners

3 people
John Burnside Excellence Award

A poetry collection that looks sharply at death, memory, and embodiment through dark, ritualistic imagery and tightly controlled language.

Dense poems about memory, loss, and the body.

80 pages
poetrymemorylossthe body
Rachael Boast Excellence Award

A debut poetry collection in which celestial imagery and earthly concerns intertwine as the poems trace their own elliptical orbits.

A debut collection that maps earthbound life through celestial imagery.

77 pages
poetrycelestial imagerylyric voiceeveryday life
Roger Francis Langley Excellence Award

The single poem “To a Nightingale” was honored for its precision, concentration, and exacting use of language.

A Forward Prize awarded to a single poem.

poetryprecisionnatureobservation