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The Ted Hughes Award was an annual literary prize given to a living UK poet for new work in poetry. It was awarded each spring in recognition of a work from the previous year. It was a project which ran alongside Carol Ann Duffy's tenure as Poet Laureate, which ended when Duffy finished her 10 years as Poet Laureate in 2019 [1]

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Background

The award was established in 2009 with the permission of Carol Hughes in honour of British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes. [2] Annually the members of the Poetry Society and Poetry Book Society recommended a living UK poet who had completed the newest and most innovative work that year, "highlighting outstanding contributions made by poets to our cultural life." The award sought to celebrate new work that might have fallen beyond the conventional realms of poetry, embracing mediums such as music, dance and theatre. [3] The £5,000 prize funded from the annual honorarium that Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy receives as Laureate from The Queen. [4] [5]

Winners

Ted Hughes Award winners [6]
YearJudgesAuthorTitleResultRef.
2009 Alice Oswald with etchings by Jessica Greenman Weeds and WildflowersWinner [3] [7]
Chris Agee Next To NothingShortlist
Dannie Abse New Selected Poems 1949-2009: Anniversary CollectionShortlist
John Glenday GrainShortlist
Paul Farley Field Recordings: BBC Poems (1998-2008)Shortlist
Jackie Kay The Maw Broon MonologuesShortlist [7]
Andrew Motion The Cinder PathShortlist [7]
2010 Kaite O'Reilly The Persians [lower-alpha 1] Winner [8] [9]
Martin Figura WhistleShortlist [9]
Christopher Reid Song of Lunch [lower-alpha 2] Shortlist [9]
David Swann with wood-cuts by Clare DunneThe Privilege of Rain [lower-alpha 3] Shortlist [9]
Katharine Towers The Floating ManShortlist [9]
2011 Lavinia Greenlaw Audio ObscuraWinner [10] [11]
Simon Armitage Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie LancasterShortlist [11]
Julia Copus Ghost LinesShortlist [11]
Robert CrawfordSimonidesShortlist [11]
Andrew Motion Laurels and DonkeysShortlist [11]
Christopher Reid Airs and Ditties of No Man’s LandShortlist [11]
2012 Kae Tempest Brand New AncientsWinner [12] [13] [14]
Colette Bryce Ballasting the ArkShortlist [15]
Roy Fisher LocklinesShortlist [15]
Ruth Padel The Mara CrossingShortlist [15]
Mario Petrucci Tales from the BridgeShortlist [15]
Denise Riley A Part SongShortlist [15]
Tamar Yoseloff FormerlyShortlist [15]
2013 Maggie Sawkins Zones of Avoidance [lower-alpha 4] Winner [16]
Steve Ely Oswald’s Book of HoursShortlist [16]
Chris McCabe PharmapoeticaShortlist [16]
Hannah Silva Total ManShortlist [16]
Zoë Skoulding The Museum of Disappearing SoundsShortlist [16]
2014 Sir Andrew Motion Coming Home [lower-alpha 5] Winner [17] [18]
Patience Agbabi Telling TalesShortlist [19]
Imtiaz Dharker Over the MoonShortlist [19]
Carrie Etter Imagined SonsShortlist [19]
Alice Oswald TithonusShortlist [19]
2015 David Morley The Invisible Gift: Selected PoemsWinner [20]
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi and Sarah Maguire He Tells Tales of MeroeShortlist
Chris Beckett Sketches from the Poem RoadShortlist
Elizabeth Burns ClayShortlist
Kate Clanchy We Are Writing a Poem about HomeShortlist
Carole Satyamurti Mahabharata: A Modern RetellingShortlist
2016 Hollie McNish Nobody Told MeWinner [21] [22]
Will Eaves The Inevitable Gift ShopShortlist [23]
Salena Godden LIVEwireShortlist [23]
Melissa Lee-Houghton SunshineShortlist [23]
Harry Man Finders KeepersShortlist [23]
Hollie McNish Nobody Told MeShortlist [23]
Caroline Smith The Immigration HandbookShortlist [23]
2017 Jay Bernard Surge: Side AWinner [24] [25] [26]
Caroline Bird In These Days of ProhibitionShortlist
Kayo Chingonyi Chingonyi for KumukandaShortlist
Inua Ellams #AfterhoursShortlist
Matthew Francis The MabinogiShortlist
Antony Owen The Nagasaki ElderShortlist
Greta Stoddart Who’s There?Shortlist
2018 Judges: Raymond Antrobus The PerseveranceWinner [27]
Tishani Doshi Girls Are Coming Out of the WoodsShortlist
Roy McFarlane The Healing Next TimeShortlist
Susan Richardson Words the Turtle Taught MeShortlist
Hannah Sullivan Three Poems Shortlist

Notes

  1. ↑ The Persians is a site specific retelling of Aeschylus’ play by the same name first produced in 472 BCE.
  2. ↑ For Song of Lunch, Reid worked with director Niall MacCormick to adapt his narrative poem The Song of Lunch into a 50-minute BBC2 film.
  3. ↑ The Privilege of Rain is a collection compiled following a year as Writer in Residence at HM Prison Nottingham.
  4. ↑ Zones of Avoidance is a live production featuring multimedia written and performed by Sawkins and directed by Mark Hewitt
  5. ↑ The Coming Home radio programme featured poetry by Motion based on recordings he made of British soldiers returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "The Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry Winner: Lavinia Greenlaw for Audio Obscura". The Poetry Society . Archived from the original on 6 August 2012. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
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  14. ↑ "Judges Maura Dooley, Ian Duhig and Cornelia Parker have presented the 2012 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry to Kate Tempest for Brand New Ancients!". The Poetry Society . 3 June 2013. Archived from the original on 3 June 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
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  16. 1 2 3 4 5 "Congratulations to Maggie Sawkins who has won the Ted Hughes Award for Zones of Avoidance". The Poetry Society . Archived from the original on 11 August 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
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