The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry is an annual literary award presented by Publishing Triangle to honour works of gay male poetry. First presented in 2001 as the Triangle Award for Gay Poetry, the award was renamed in memory of British poet Thom Gunn, the award's first winner, following his death in 2004.
Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
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2001 | Thom Gunn | Boss Cupid | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Winner | |
Carl Phillips | Pastoral | Graywolf Press | Finalist | ||
Griffin Hansbury | Day for Night | Painted Leaf Press | Finalist | ||
2002 | Mark Doty | Source | HarperCollins | Winner | |
Billeh Nickerson | The Asthmatic Glassblower | Arsenal Pulp Press | Finalist | ||
Justin Chin | Harmless Medicine | Manic D Press | Finalist | ||
2003 | Greg Hewett | Red Suburb | Coffee House Press | Winner | |
David Groff | Theory of Devolution | University of Illinois Press | Finalist | ||
Rafael Campo | Landscape with Human Figure | Duke University Press | Finalist | ||
2004 | Brian Teare | The Room Where I Was Born | University of Wisconsin Press | Winner | |
Patrick Donnelly | The Change | Ausable Press | Finalist | ||
Peter Pereira | Saying the World | Copper Canyon Press | Finalist | ||
2005 | Carl Phillips | The Rest of Love | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Winner | |
D. A. Powell | Cocktails | Graywolf Press | Finalist | ||
Ron Mohring | Survivable World | Word Works | Finalist | ||
2006 | Richard Siken | Crush | Yale University Press | Winner | [2] |
Frank Bidart | Star Dust | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Finalist | ||
Peter Covino | Cut Off the Ears of Winter | New Issues | Finalist | ||
2007 | Justin Chin | Gutted | Manic D Press | Winner | [3] |
Greg Hewett | The Eros Conspiracy | Coffee House Press | Finalist | ||
Jim Elledge | A History of My Tattoo | Stonewall | Finalist | ||
2008 | Daniel Hall | Under Sleep | University of Chicago Press | Winner | [4] |
Steve Fellner | Blind Date with Cafavy | Marsh Hawk Press | Winner | [4] | |
Henri Cole | Blackbird and Wolf | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Finalist | ||
2009 | Ely Shipley | Boy with Flowers | Barrow Street Press | Winner | [5] |
Jericho Brown | Please | New Issues | Finalist | ||
Mark Doty | Fire to Fire | Harper/HarperCollins | Finalist | ||
2010 | Ronaldo V. Wilson | Poems of the Black Object | Futurepoem Books | Winner | |
Brent Goodman | The Brother Swimming Beneath Me | Black Lawrence Press | Finalist | ||
D. A. Powell | Chronic | Graywolf Press | Finalist | ||
2011 | Michael Walsh | The Dirt Riddles | University of Arkansas Press | Winner | [6] |
Eric Leigh | Harm’s Way | University of Arkansas Press | Finalist | ||
Paul Legault | The Madeleine Poems | Omnidawn | Finalist | ||
2012 | Henri Cole | Touch | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Winner | |
Brad Richard | Motion Studies | The Word Works | Finalist | ||
Christopher Hennessy | Love-in-Idleness | Brooklyn Arts Press | Finalist | ||
Tim Dlugos | A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos | Nightboat Books | Finalist | ||
2013 | Richard Blanco | Looking for the Gulf Motel | University of Pittsburgh Press | Winner | [7] |
Aaron Smith | Appetite | University of Pittsburgh Press | Finalist | ||
Eduardo C. Corral | Slow Lightning | Yale University Press | Finalist | ||
Stephen S. Mills | He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices | Sibling Rivalry Press | Finalist | ||
2014 | Charlie Bondhus | All the Heat We Could Carry | Main Street Rag | Winner | [8] [9] [10] |
L. Lamar Wilson | Sacrilegion | Carolina Wren Press | Finalist | [11] | |
Michael Klein | The Talking Day | Sibling Rivalry Press | Finalist | [11] | |
Rigoberto González | Unpeopled Eden | Four Way Books | Finalist | [11] | |
2015 | Jericho Brown | The New Testament | Copper Canyon Press | Winner | [12] |
Pier Paolo Pasolini ; edited and trans. by Stephen Sartarelli | The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Bilingual Edition | University of Chicago Press | Finalist | ||
Roberto Montes | I Don’t Know Do You | Ampersand Books | Finalist | ||
Saeed Jones | Prelude to Bruise | Coffee House Press | Finalist | ||
2016 | Rick Barot | Chord | Sarabande Books | Winner | [13] |
Oliver Bendorf | The Spectral Wilderness | Kent State University Press | Finalist | ||
Rickey Laurentiis | Boy with Thorn | University of Pittsburgh Press | Finalist | ||
Ronaldo V. Wilson | Farther Traveler | Counterpath Press | Finalist | ||
2017 | Ocean Vuong | Night Sky with Exit Wounds | Copper Canyon Press | Winner | [14] [15] |
Derrick Austin | Trouble the Water | BOA Editions | Finalist | ||
Phillip B. Williams | Thief in the Interior | Alice James Books | Finalist | ||
Sjohnna McCray | Rapture | Graywolf Press | Finalist | ||
2018 | Chen Chen | When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities | BOA Editions | Winner | [16] |
Charif Shanahan | Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing | Southern Illinois University Press | Finalist | ||
Danez Smith | Don’t Call Us Dead | Graywolf Press | Finalist | ||
Frank Bidart | Half-Light: Collected Poems, 1965–2016 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Finalist | ||
2019 | Hieu Minh Nguyen | Not Here | Coffee House Press | Winner | [17] |
Blas Falconer | Forgive the Body This Failure | Four Way Books | Finalist | [18] | |
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo | Cenzontle | BOA Editions | Finalist | [18] | |
Timothy Liu | Luminous Debris: New and Selected Legerdemain, 1992–2017 | Barrow Street Press | Finalist | [18] | |
2020 | Sam Ross | Company | Four Way Books | Winner | [19] [20] |
Aaron Smith | The Book of Daniel | University of Pittsburgh Press | Finalist | [21] | |
Angelo Nestore ; trans. by Lawrence Schimel | Impure Acts | Indolent Books | Finalist | [21] | |
Jan-Henry Gray | Documents | BOA Editions | Finalist | [21] | |
2021 | Mark Bibbins | 13th Balloon | Copper Canyon Press | Winner | [22] [23] |
Danez Smith | Homie | Graywolf Press | Finalist | ||
Jameson Fitzpatrick | Pricks in the Tapestry | Birds, LLC | Finalist | ||
Tommye Blount | Fantasia for the Man in Blue | Four Way Books | Finalist | ||
2022 | John Keene | Punks: New and Selected Poems | The Song Cave | Winner | [24] |
Kevin Simmonds | The Monster I Am Today: Leontyne Price and a Life in Verse | Northwestern University Press | Finalist | ||
Miguel Murphy | Shoreditch | Barrow Street Press | Finalist | ||
Phillip B. Williams | Mutiny | Penguin Books | Finalist | ||
2023 | Philip Clark and Michael Bronski (ed.) | Invisible History: The Collected Poems of Walta Borawski | Rebel Satori Press | Winner | [25] [26] |
Eric Tran | Mouth, Sugar and Smoke | Diode Editions | Finalist | ||
Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué | Madness | Nightboat Books | Finalist | ||
Saeed Jones | Alive at the End of the World | Coffee House Press | Finalist | ||
2024 | Charif Shanahan | Trace Evidence | Tin House | Winner | [27] [28] |
Sam Sax | Pig | Scribner | Finalist | [29] | |
Brian Teare | Poem Bitten by a Man | Nightboat Books | Finalist | [29] | |
Rigoberto González | To the Boy Who Was Night | Four Way Books | Finalist | [29] |
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