Cholmondeley Award

The Cholmondeley Award ( ˈtʃʌmli əˈwɔːd ) is a British literary prize awarded annually by the Society of Authors to several outstanding poets. It was donated in 1966 by the art patron Sybil Cholmondeley, Marchioness of Cholmondeley .

Award winners

1992 awardee: Carol Ann Duffy

1969 award winner: Derek Walcott

1967 Prize Winner: Seamus Heaney

• 1966: Ted Walker , Stevie Smith
• 1967: Seamus Heaney , Brian Jones , Norman Nicholson
• 1968: Harold Massingham , Edwin Morgan
• 1969: Derek Walcott , Tony Harrison
• 1970: Kathleen Raine , Douglas Livingstone , Kamau Brathwaite
• 1971: Charles Causley , Gavin Ewart , Hugo Williams
• 1972: Molly Holden , Tom Raworth , Patricia Whittaker
• 1973: Patric Dickinson , Philip Larkin
• 1974: DJ Enright , Vernon Scannell , Alasdair Maclean
• 1975: Jenny Joseph , Norman MacCaig , John Ormond
• 1976: Peter Porter , Fleur Adcock
• 1977: Peter Bland , George MacBeth , James Simmons , Andrew Waterman
• 1978: Christopher Hope , Leslie Norris , Peter Reading , DM Thomas , RS Thomas
• 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
• 1987: Wendy Cope , Matthew Sweeney , George Szirtes
• 1988: John Heath-Stubbs , Sean O'Brien , John Whitworth
• 1989: Peter Didsbury , Douglas Dunn , EJ Scovell
• 1990: Kingsley Amis , Elaine Feinstein , Michael O'Neill
• 1991: James Berry , Sujata Bhatt , Michael Hulse , Derek Mahon
• 1992: Allen Curnow , Donald Davie , Carol Ann Duffy , Roger Woddis
• 1993: Patricia Beer , George Mackay Brown , PJ Kavanagh , Michael Longley
• 1994: Ruth Fainlight , Gwen Harwood , Elizabeth Jennings , John Mole
• 1995: UA Fanthorpe , Christopher Reid , CH Sisson , Kit Wright
• 1996: Elizabeth Bartlett , Dorothy Nimmo , Peter Scupham , Iain Crichton Smith
• 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
• 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 , Michael Donaghy , Lavinia Greenlaw , Jackie Kay
• 2004: John Agard , Ruth Padel , Lawrence Sail , Eva Salzman
• 2005: Jane Duran , Christopher Logue , MR 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 , Paul Farley , Lee Harwood , Medbh McGuckian
• 2014: WN Herbert , Jeremy Hooker , John James , Glynn Maxwell , Denise Riley
• 2015: Patience Agbabi , Brian Catling , Christopher Middleton , Pascale Petit , JH Prynne
• 2016: Maura Dooley , David Morley , Peter Sansom , Iain Sinclair
• 2017: Caroline Bergvall , Sasha Dugdale , Philip Gross , Paula Meehan
• 2018: Vahni Capildeo , Kate Clanchy , Linton Kwesi Johnson , Dagit Nagra , Zoe Skoulding
• 2019: Malika Booker , Fred D'Aguiar , Allen Fisher , Jamie McKendrick
• 2020: Alec Finlay , Linda France , Bhanu Kapil , Hannah Lowe , Rod Mengham

Web links

• Society of Authors : The Cholmondeley Awards for Poets
• Past winners