Best Collection (£10,000); Best First Collection (£5,000); Best Single Poem (£1,000)
Sponsored by
Forward Worldwide, Arts Council England, The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, The estate of Felix Dennis
Date
1992
Location
United Kingdom
The Forward Prizes for Poetry are major British awards for poetry, presented annually at a public ceremony in London. They were founded in 1992 by William Sieghart with the aim of celebrating excellence in poetry and increasing its audience. The prizes do this by identifying and honouring talent: collections published in the UK and Ireland over the course of the previous year are eligible, as are single poems nominated by journal editors or prize organisers. Each year, works shortlisted for the prizes – plus those highly commended by the judges – are collected in the Forward Book of Poetry.
The awards have been sponsored since their inception by the content marketing agency Bookmark, formerly Forward Worldwide. The best first collection prize is sponsored by the estate of Felix Dennis.
The Forward Prizes for Poetry celebrated their 30th anniversary in 2021. For the 2023 prizes, a new category for outstanding performance of a poem was added to the list of awards.[1]
^Creamer, Ella (30 June 2023). "Forward prizes for poetry add new award for performed poems". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
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