The Cholmondeley Awards /ˈtʃʌmli/ (CHUM-lee) are annual awards for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966. Since 1991 the award has been made to four poets each year, to the total value of £8000.

List of prize winners

2000s

2000s Cholmondeley Awards winners[1]
Year Winner Ref.
2000 Alistair Elliot
Michael Hamburger
Adrian Henri
Carole Satyamurti
2001 Ian Duhig
Paul Durcan
Kathleen Jamie
Grace Nichols
2002 Moniza Alvi
David Constantine
Liz Lochhead
Brian Patten
2003 Ciaran Carson [2]
Michael Donaghy
Lavinia Greenlaw
Jackie Kay
2004 John Agard
Ruth Padel
Lawrence Sail
Eva Salzman
2005 Jane Duran
Christopher Logue
M. R. Peacocke
Neil Rollinson
2006 Alan Jenkins
Mimi Khalvati
Jo Shapcott
2007 Judith Kazantzis
Robert Nye
Penelope Shuttle
2008 John Burnside
John Greening
David Harsent
Sarah Maguire
2009 Bernard O'Donoghue
Alice Oswald
Fiona Sampson
Pauline Stainer
2010 Gillian Allnutt
Colette Bryce
Gwyneth Lewis
Deryn Rees-Jones
2011 Imtiaz Dharker
Michael Haslam
Lachlan Mackinnon
2012 Christine Evans
Don Paterson
Peter Riley
Robin Robertson
2013 Simon Armitage [3]
Paul Farley
Lee Harwood
Medbh McGuckian
2014 W.N. Herbert
Jeremy Hooker
John James
Glyn Maxwell
Denise Riley
2015 Patience Agbabi
Brian Catling
Christopher Middleton
Pascale Petit [4]
J. H. Prynne
2016 Maura Dooley
David Morley
Peter Sansom
Iain Sinclair
2017 Caroline Bergvall [5][6]
Sasha Dugdale [5]
Philip Gross [5]
Paula Meehan [5][7]
2018 Vahni Capildeo
Kate Clanchy
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Daljit Nagra
Zoë Skoulding [8]
2019 Malika Booker [9]
Fred D'Aguiar
Allen Fisher
Jamie McKendrick
2020 Alec Finlay
Linda France
Bhanu Kapil
Hannah Lowe
Rod Mengham [10]
2021 Paula Claire
Kei Miller
Katrina Porteous
Maurice Riordan
Susan Wicks
2022 Tiffany Atkinson
Menna Elfyn [11]
David Kinloch [12]
Gerry Loose
Maggie O'Sullivan
2023 Caroline Bird [13]
Jane Draycott
Greta Stoddart
Michael Symmons Roberts
Jackie Wills
Tamar Yoseloff

1900s

1900s Cholmondeley Awards winners[1]
Year Winner Ref.
1966 Ted Walker
Stevie Smith [14]
1967 Seamus Heaney
Brian Jones
Norman Nicholson
1968 Harold Massingham
Edwin Morgan
1969 Derek Walcott
Tony Harrison
1970 Kathleen Raine
Douglas Livingstone
Edward Brathwaite
1971 Charles Causley
Gavin Ewart
Hugo Williams
1972 Molly Holden
Tom Raworth
Patricia Whittaker
1973 Patric Dickinson
Philip Larkin
1974 D. J. Enright
Vernon Scannell
Alasdair Maclean
1975 Jenny Joseph [15]
Norman MacCaig
John Ormond
1976 Peter Porter
Fleur Adcock
1977 Peter Bland
George MacBeth
James Simmons
Andrew Waterman
1978 D. M. Thomas
R. S. Thomas
Christopher Hope
Leslie Norris
Peter Reading [16]
1979 Alan Brownjohn
Andrew Motion
Charles Tomlinson
1980 George Barker
Terence Tiller
Roy Fuller
1981 Roy Fisher
Robert Garioch
Charles Boyle
1982 Basil Bunting
Herbert Lomas
William Scammell
1983 John Fuller
Craig Raine
Anthony Thwaite
1984 Michael Baldwin
Michael Hofmann
Carol Rumens
1985 Dannie Abse
Peter Redgrove
Brian Taylor
1986 Lawrence Durrell
James Fenton
Selima Hill [17]
1987 Wendy Cope
Matthew Sweeney [18]
George Szirtes
1988 John Heath-Stubbs
Sean O'Brien
John Whitworth
1989 E. J. Scovell
Peter Didsbury
Douglas Dunn
1990 Kingsley Amis
Elaine Feinstein
Michael O'Neill
1991 James Berry
Sujata Bhatt
Michael Hulse
Derek Mahon
1992 Carol Ann Duffy
Allen Curnow
Donald Davie
Roger Woddis
1993 George Mackay Brown
P. J. Kavanagh
Patricia Beer
Michael Longley
1994 Ruth Fainlight
Gwen Harwood
Elizabeth Jennings
John Mole
1995 U. A. Fanthorpe
C. H. Sisson
Christopher Reid
Kit Wright
1996 Iain Crichton Smith
Elizabeth Bartlett
Dorothy Nimmo
Peter Scupham [19]
1997 Alison Brackenbury
Gillian Clarke
Tony Curtis
Anne Stevenson
1998 Roger McGough
Robert Minhinnick
Anne Ridler
Ken Smith
1999 Vicki Feaver
Geoffrey Hill
Elma Mitchell
Sheenagh Pugh

See also

References

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  3. ^ "UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage comes to Wellington". British Council. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
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  10. ^ "Dr Rod Mengham wins Cholmondeley Award for poetry". Jesus College Cambridge. 25 June 2020. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  11. ^ "Professor Emerita Menna Elfyn wins coveted Cholmondeley Award". University of Wales. 2022-01-06. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  12. ^ "SHORE POETS". Fruitmarket. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
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  14. ^ "Cholmondeley Poetry Award". Representative Poetry Online. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  15. ^ "Obituary Notes: Francis Wyndham; Jenny Joseph". Shelf Awareness. 2018-01-23. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  16. ^ "Peter Reading Biography". Readings in Contemporary Poetry. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  17. ^ "Selima Hill, 2010 Recipient". Center for Hellenic Studies | Harvard University. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  18. ^ "Obituary Note: Matthew Sweeney". Shelf Awareness. 2018-08-08. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  19. ^ "Obituary Note: Peter Scupham". Shelf Awareness. 2022-06-28. Retrieved 2023-03-14.

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