Forward Prizes for Poetry

Description

História e Objetivos dos Forward Prizes for Poetry

Os Forward Prizes for Poetry foram estabelecidos em 1994 pela Forward Publishing e são agora geridos pela Forward Arts Foundation. O objetivo principal do prémio é promover a poesia e torná-la mais acessível ao público em geral, celebrando o melhor da poesia contemporânea publicada no Reino Unido e na Irlanda. O prémio é amplamente considerado um dos mais importantes e influentes no panorama literário britânico, com um impacto significativo na carreira dos poetas premiados e nomeados.

Categorias do Prémio

O prémio é composto por várias categorias:

  • Forward Prize for Best Collection: Este é o prémio principal e distingue a melhor coleção de poemas publicada no ano. O prémio monetário associado a esta categoria é substancial, o que contribui para o prestígio do galardão.
  • Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection: Anteriormente conhecido como 'Best First Collection', este prémio foi renomeado em homenagem ao poeta e editor Felix Dennis. Destina-se a celebrar e incentivar novos talentos na poesia, reconhecendo a melhor coleção de estreia publicada.
  • Forward Prize for Best Single Poem: Esta categoria reconhece a excelência num único poema, destacando a força e o impacto de trabalhos individuais.

Critérios de Elegibilidade e Processo de Seleção

Os critérios de elegibilidade para os prémios são rigorosos. Os livros devem ser publicados no Reino Unido ou na Irlanda por editoras sediadas nesses países, e os autores devem ser cidadãos do Reino Unido ou da Irlanda, ou ter residido nesses países por um período significativo. Os poemas individuais também devem ter sido publicados em revistas literárias ou antologias no Reino Unido ou na Irlanda.

A seleção dos vencedores é feita por um painel de jurados de renome, composto por poetas, críticos literários e académicos. A lista de nomeados e vencedores dos Forward Prizes for Poetry tem sido consistentemente de alta qualidade, apresentando uma mistura de poetas estabelecidos e emergentes, e refletindo a diversidade e vitalidade da poesia contemporânea.

Relevância e Impacto no Mundo Literário

Os Forward Prizes for Poetry têm uma relevância considerável no mundo literário. Eles não só oferecem reconhecimento e prémios monetários, mas também geram atenção mediática significativa para a poesia, ajudando a atrair novos leitores para o género. A fundação por trás dos prémios, a Forward Arts Foundation, também se dedica a promover a literacia poética através de uma série de iniciativas educativas e eventos públicos. A sua influência estende-se para além do reconhecimento individual, contribuindo para a saúde e o crescimento da comunidade poética como um todo. A ênfase em celebrar tanto coleções estabelecidas quanto novos talentos garante que o prémio sirva como um barómetro importante da paisagem poética atual e futura.

Curiosidades e Tradições

Uma curiosidade interessante é que o prémio foi inicialmente financiado pela Forward Publishing, uma editora independente, o que sublinha o seu compromisso com a promoção da poesia. Ao longo dos anos, o patrocínio mudou, mas o espírito de apoio à poesia permaneceu. A cerimónia de entrega dos prémios é um evento aguardado, muitas vezes realizado em locais históricos ou culturais de Londres, adicionando um toque de solenidade e celebração à ocasião.

Winners

2025
Richard R. Grant

Richard R. Grant --

At Least (Single Poem)
2025
Richard Rosen

Richard Rosen --

Where I'm From (Best Single Poem performed)
2025
Richard Royster

Richard Royster --

Chaotic Good (First Collection)
2025
Richard Russo

Richard Russo --

Wellwater (Best Collection)
2025
Richard Rybolt

Richard Rybolt --

Avidya (Best Collection)
2024
Richard Olton

Richard Olton --

Ward of One (Single Poem)
2024
Richard P. Adler

Richard P. Adler --

Dear John Berger (Best Single Poem performed)
2024
Richard Phillips Feynman

Richard Phillips Feynman --

The Wrong Person to Ask (First Collection)

United States physicist who contributed to the theory of the interaction of photons and electrons (1918-1988)

2024
Richard Pryor

Richard Pryor --

With My Back to the World (Best Collection)

Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III (December 1, 1940 - December 10, 2005) was an American comedian, actor and writer

2023
Richard Leider

Richard Leider --

Libation (Single Poem)
2023
Richard Nelson Bolles

Richard Nelson Bolles --

Almost Certainly (Best Single Poem performed)

Richard Nelson Bolles (born March 19, 1927 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a former Episcopal clergyman, and the author of the best-selling job-hunting book, What Color Is Your Parachute? Self-published at first (December 1, 1970), the book has been commercially published since November 1972, by Ten Speed Press, in Berkeley, California. Since 1975 it has been revised and updated annually, sometimes substantially. Nine million copies are in print, and it has been translated into fourteen different languages worldwide. Bolles is the brother of investigative journalist Don Bolles, who was murdered in June 1976. His paternal grandfather, Stephen Bolles, was a U.S. member of Congress from Wisconsin (died 1941), and his father was for many years an editor with the Associated Press (died 1972)

2023
Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon --

Self-Portrait as Othello (Best Collection)

vice president under Eisenhower and 37th President of the United States; resigned after the Watergate scandal in 1974 (1913-1994)

2023
Richard Olney

Richard Olney --

Bad Diaspora Poems (First Collection)
2022
Richard M. Mathews

Richard M. Mathews --

All the Men I Never Married (Best Collection)
2022
Richard Moss

Richard Moss --

Up Late (Single Poem)
2022
Richard Needham

Richard Needham --

Amnion (First Collection)

Richard Francis Needham, 6th Earl of Kilmorey, Knight, PC (born 29 January 1942) usually known as Sir Richard Needham is a former Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. Prior to 1977 he used the courtesy title of Viscount Newry and Mourne

2021
Richard Livingstone

Richard Livingstone --

Poor (First Collection)
2021
Richard Lovelace

Richard Lovelace --

Notes on the Sonnets (Best Collection)
2021
Richard M. Devos

Richard M. Devos --

Pages 22–29 an excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure (Single Poem)
2020
Richard Lamm

Richard Lamm --

The Air Year (Best Collection)

Richard Douglas "Dick" Lamm is an American politician and lawyer. He served three terms as Governor of Colorado as a Democrat (1975-1987) and ran for the Reform Party's nomination for President of the United States in 1996

2020
Richard Leider

Richard Leider --

The Little Miracles (Single Poem)
2020
Richard Lewis

Richard Lewis --

RENDANG (First Collection)

Richard Victor Lewis is a former English cricketer.

2019
Richard Kehl

Richard Kehl --

Vertigo and Ghost (Best Collection)
2019
Richard Kemph

Richard Kemph --

Forty Names (Single Poem)
2019
Richard L. Evans

Richard L. Evans --

If All the World and Love Were Young (First Collection)

Richard Louis Evans (b. March 23, 1906, Salt Lake City, Utah - November 1, 1971) was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1953 - 1971), the president of Rotary International (1966 - 1967), and the writer, producer, and announcer of Music and the Spoken Word for forty-one years (1930 - 1971)

2018
Richard Guggenheimer

Richard Guggenheimer --

The Republic of Motherhood (Single Poem)
2018
Richard Jeni

Richard Jeni --

Don't Call Us Dead (Best Collection)

Richard John Colangelo, better known by the stage name of Richard Jeni, was an American stand-up comedian and actor.

2018
Richard Jordan

Richard Jordan --

Shrines of Upper Austria (First Collection)

Richard Anson Jordan (July 19, 1937 - August 30, 1993) was a Golden Globe-winning Harvard-educated American stage, screen and film actor. He was a long-time member of the New York Shakespeare Festival, and appeared in many Off Broadway and Broadway plays. His films include Logan's Run, Les Miserables, Raise the Titanic!, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Yakuza, The Bunker, Dune, The Secret of My Succe$s, The Hunt for Red October and Gettysburg. He died of a brain tumor in 1993

2017
Richard Ingrams

Richard Ingrams --

The Plenty of Nothing (Single Poem)

Richard Ingrams (born 19 August 1937) was a co-founder and second editor of the British satirical magazine Private Eye, taking over from Christopher Booker in 1963. He now edits The Oldie magazine

2017
Richard J. Ferris

Richard J. Ferris --

Night Sky with Exit Wounds (First Collection)
2017
Richard Jefferies

Richard Jefferies --

On Balance (Best Collection)

John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 - 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction. For all that, these show a remarkable diversity, including Bevis (1882), a classic children's book, and After London (1885), an early work of science fiction. For much of his adult life, he suffered from tuberculosis, and his struggles with the illness and with poverty also play a role in his writing. Jefferies valued and cultivated an intensity of feeling in his experience of the world around him, a cultivation that he describes in detail in The Story of My Heart (1883). This work, an introspective depiction of his thoughts and feelings on the world, gained him the reputation of a nature mystic at the time. But it is his success in conveying his awareness of nature and people within it, both in his fiction and in essay collections such as The Amateur Poacher (1879) and Round About a Great Estate (1880), that has drawn most admirers. Walter Besant wrote of his reaction on first reading Jefferies: "Why, we must have been blind all our lives; here were the most wonderful things possible going on under our very noses, but we saw them not

2016
Richard Hofstadter

Richard Hofstadter --

Joy (Single Poem)

Richard Hofstadter (August 6, 1916-October 24, 1970) was an American historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. One of the leading public intellectuals of the 1950s, his works include The Age of Reform (1955) and Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1963), both of which won the Pulitzer Prize-the former for History and the latter for General Non-Fiction-as well as Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860-1915 (1944), The American Political Tradition (1948), and The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964). Hofstadter became the "iconic historian of postwar liberal consensus" and 21st century scholars continue to admire his books and essays for the grace of his writing, the depth of his insight, his use of the past to illuminate contemporary issues, and his ability to simultaneously engage a scholarly and a popular audience

2016
Richard Hughes

Richard Hughes --

Wif (First Collection)
2016
Richard I. Winword

Richard I. Winword --

Measures of Expatriation (Best Collection)
2015
Richard Harkness

Richard Harkness --

The Mighty Hudson (Single Poem)
2015
Richard Harris

Richard Harris --

Citizen: An American Lyric (Best Collection)

Richard St. John Harris (October 1, 1930 - October 25, 2002) was a two-time Academy Award-nominated and Grammy Award-winning Irish actor, singer-songwriter, theatrical producer, film director and writer. He appeared on stage and in many films, and is perhaps best known for his roles as King Arthur in Camelot (1967), as Oliver Cromwell in Cromwell (1970) and for his portrayal of Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), his last film. He also played a British aristocrat and prisoner in A Man Called Horse (1970), and a gunfighter in the Clint Eastwood directed western Unforgiven (1992)

2014
Richard Guerry

Richard Guerry --

The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion (Best Collection)

Executive Director - I.R.O.C.2 (www.iroc2.org)

2014
Richard Guggenheimer

Richard Guggenheimer --

Black Country (First Collection)
2014
Richard Harding Davis

Richard Harding Davis --

In a Restaurant (Single Poem)

Richard Harding Davis (18 April 1864-11 April 1916) was a popular writer of fiction and drama, and a journalist famous for his coverage of the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. Davis, whose mother Rebecca Harding Davis was also a prominent writer in her day, made his reputation as a newspaper reporter in May to June 1889 reporting on the devestation of Johnstown, Pa. following the infamous flood. He also reported on other events like the first electrocution of a criminal (the death of William Kemmler in 1890). Davis became a managing editor of Harper's Weekly, and was one of the world's leading war correspondents at the time of the Second Boer War in South Africa. As an American, he had the unique opportunity to see the war first-hand from both the British and Boer perspectives. Davis also worked as a reporter for the New York Herald, The Times, and Scribner's Magazine

2013
Richard Forsyth

Richard Forsyth --

Dear Boy (First Collection)
2013
Richard Gere

Richard Gere --

Drysalter (Best Collection)]

Richard Tiffany Gere (born August 31, 1949) is an American actor. A prototypical leading man of romantic and dramatic films, he first became famous during the 1980s, and has since managed to retain his status

2013
Richard Gordon

Richard Gordon --

The Metric System (Single Poem)
2012
Popular Mechanics

Popular Mechanics --

Place (Best Collection)
2012
Richard Fenyman

Richard Fenyman --

A Part Song (Single Poem)
2012
Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman --

81 Austerities (First Collection)

United States physicist who contributed to the theory of the interaction of photons and electrons (1918-1988)

2011
Richard Evelyn Byrd

Richard Evelyn Byrd --

Black Cat Bone (Best Collection)

explorer and United States naval officer; led expeditions to explore Antarctica (1888-1957)

2011
Richard Exely

Richard Exely --

To a Nightingale (Single Poem)
2011
Richard F. Lovelace

Richard F. Lovelace --

Sidereal (First Collection)
2010
Anna Mary Robertson Moses

Anna Mary Robertson Moses --

Human Chain (Best Collection)

United States painter of colorful and primitive rural scenes (1860-1961)

2010
Richard Dehmel

Richard Dehmel --

Berg (First Collection)

Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (November 18, 1863 in Wendisch-Hermsdorf, Province of Brandenburg - February 8, 1920 in Blankenese, now part of Hamburg) was a German poet and writer

2010
Richard Diran

Richard Diran --

An Easy Passage (Single Poem)
2009
Reverend Edward A. Malloy

Reverend Edward A. Malloy --

Rain (Best Collection)
2009
Rich Cook

Rich Cook --

At Roane Head (Single Poem)

Rick Cook (born 1944) is a light fantasy author from the United States, best known for his Wizardry series of books. His writing includes many computer inside jokes, and is better enjoyed by those who have a background in computers

2009
Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins --

The Striped World (First Collection)

Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer

2008
Reverend Edward A. Malloy

Reverend Edward A. Malloy --

Love Poem for Natalie 'Tusja' Beridze (Single Poem)
2008
Richard Darman

Richard Darman --

Sunday at the Skin Launderette (First Collection)
2008
Richard Dawkings:

Richard Dawkings: --

The Lost Leader (Best Collection)
2007
Peter James

Peter James --

Dunt (Single Poem)
2007
Rhea Olsen

Rhea Olsen --

The Drowned Book (Best Collection)
2007
Richard Byrd

Richard Byrd --

Look We Have Coming to Dover! (First Collection)
2006
Rhea Olsen

Rhea Olsen --

Fantasia on a Theme of James Wright (Single Poem)
2006
Rich Cook

Rich Cook --

Swithering (Best Collection)

Rick Cook (born 1944) is a light fantasy author from the United States, best known for his Wizardry series of books. His writing includes many computer inside jokes, and is better enjoyed by those who have a background in computers

2006
Richard D. Rosen

Richard D. Rosen --

Countries of the Body (First Collection)
2005
Peter Gray

Peter Gray --

Legion (Best Collection)

Peter Gray, was a Scottish writer on life contingencies.

2005
Rich Emery

Rich Emery --

Liverpool Disappears for a Billionth of a Second (Single Poem)

Father

2005
Richard Clark

Richard Clark --

Intimates (First Collection)

Richard Clark is an actor.

2004
Ricard

Ricard --

The Tree House (Best Collection)
2004
Richard Byrd

Richard Byrd --

Look We Have Coming to Dover! (Single Poem)
2004
Richard Cecil

Richard Cecil --

These Days (First Collection)

Richard Cecil (born London, England November 8, 1748; died Hampstead, England August 15, 1810) was a leading Evangelical Anglican clergyman of the 18th and 19th centuries

2003
Richard Armour

Richard Armour --

The Fox in the National Museum of Wales (Single Poem)

Richard Willard Armour was an American poet and author who wrote over sixty-five books.

2003
Richard Buckminster Fuller

Richard Buckminster Fuller --

Fire Stations (First Collection)

United States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983)

2003
Richard Burton

Richard Burton --

Breaking News (Best Collection)

Richard Leslie Burton is a former English cricketer.

2002
Richard Bently

Richard Bently --

She is in the Past
2002
Richard Bethell

Richard Bethell --

Max is Missing (Best Collection)

Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury (30 June 1800 - 20 July 1873), Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, was the son of Dr Richard Bethel, and was born at Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire

2002
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Sheridan GB

Touching the Bones (First Collection)

Irish playwright remembered for his satirical comedies of manners (1751-1816)

2001
Rhea Olsen

Rhea Olsen --

Downriver (Best Collection)
2001
Richard Benner

Richard Benner --

The Lammas Hireling (Single Poem)
2000
Richard Bach

Richard Bach --

Conjure (Best Collection)

Richard David Bach (b. June 23, 1936, Oak Park, Illinois) is an American writer. He is widely known as the author of the hugely popular 1970s best-sellers Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions: The Adventures Of A Reluctant Messiah and others

2000
Richard Baxter

Richard Baxter --

The Death of Descartes (Single Poem)

Richard Baxter (November 12, 1615 - December 8, 1691) was an English Puritan church leader, theologian and controversialist, called by Dean Stanley "the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen"

1999
Richard

Richard --

My Life Asleep (Best Collection)

Richard was the ex-spouse of Kim Hamilton.

1999
Richard Adams

Richard Adams --

The Man in the White Suit (First Collection)

Richard George Adams (born 9 May, 1920) is an English novelist who is best known as the writer of three novels featuring animal characters, in particular Watership Down and to a lesser extent Shardik and The Plague Dogs. He also served on Faculty at the University of Florida

1999
Richard Armour

Richard Armour --

Twenty-five Laments for Iraq (Single Poem)

Richard Willard Armour was an American poet and author who wrote over sixty-five books.

1998
Rich Emery

Rich Emery --

The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You (First Collection)

Father

1998
Rich Hall

Rich Hall --

Envying Owen Beattie (Single Poem)
1998
Rich Kulawiec

Rich Kulawiec --

Birthday Letters (Best Collection)
1997
Ricardo A Scott

Ricardo A Scott --

The Marble Fly (Best Collection)

Ricardo A. Scott is the one from Trench-Town Jamaica who created and coined the word Reggae and was responsible for the name original Wailing Wailers.

1997
Ricardo Montalbán

Ricardo Montalbán --

A World Where News Travelled Slowly (Single Poem)

Ricardo Montalbán was an actor.

1997
Rich Cook

Rich Cook --

A Painted Field (First Collection)

Rick Cook (born 1944) is a light fantasy author from the United States, best known for his Wizardry series of books. His writing includes many computer inside jokes, and is better enjoyed by those who have a background in computers

1996
Peter James

Peter James --

The Thing in the Gap Stone Stile (First Collection)
1996
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi --

Stones and Fires (Best Collection)

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi born 25 November 1941 is a spiritual leader and founder of the spiritual movements RAGS International and Anjuman Serfaroshan-e-Islam.

1996
Ricard

Ricard --

The Graduates (Single Poem)
1995
Rex Hudler

Rex Hudler --

Breathe Now (First Collection)

Rex Allen Hudler (nicknamed the "Wonder Dog") (born on September 2, 1960, in Tempe, Arizona) is a former Major League Baseball utilityman. He played a total of thirteen seasons after being a first round draft pick of the New York Yankees in 1978. He is currently the color commentator for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim broadcasting team alongside play-by-play announcer Steve Physioc. He is also the color commentator for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable games MLB 06: The Show, then MLB 07: The Show and MLB 08: The Show for the PlayStation 3 along with Dave Campbell and Matt Vasgersian

1995
Reynolds Price

Reynolds Price --

In Honour of Love (Single Poem)

Reynolds Price (born February 1, 1933, as Edward Reynolds Price) is an American novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Apart from English literature, Price has had a lifelong interest in ancient languages and Biblical scholarship. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

1995
Rhea Olsen

Rhea Olsen --

Ghost Train (Best Collection)
1994
Reverend Oliver G. Wilson

Reverend Oliver G. Wilson --

Harm (Best Collection)
1994
Reverend Sean Parker Dennison

Reverend Sean Parker Dennison --

Autumn (Single Poem)
1994
Reverend W. Awdry

Reverend W. Awdry --

Progeny of Air(First Collection)
1993
Rev. Randall R. McBride Jr.

Rev. Randall R. McBride Jr. --

Mean Time (Best Collection)
1993
Reverend Edward A. Malloy

Reverend Edward A. Malloy --

Nil Nil (First Collection)
1993
Reverend John Vaughan

Reverend John Vaughan --

Judith (Single Poem)
1992
Rev. Ivan Stang - High Weirdness By Mail

Rev. Ivan Stang - High Weirdness By Mail --

Black Bottom (Single Poem)
1992
Rev. Patrick Coomer

Rev. Patrick Coomer --

The Man with Night Sweats (Best Collection)