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FOR POETRY 1971-2003 |
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FOR POETRY 1971-2003 |
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The Whitbread Book Awards, established in 1971, aim to celebrate and promote the best of British writing. The winners of the Awards for Poetry, Biography, Novel and First Novel are selected in each case by a panel of three judges. The 2002 award for poetry was announced on January 8, 2003.
| 2003 | Don Paterson | Landing Light |
| 2002 | Paul Farley | The Ice Age |
| 2001 | Selima Hill | Bunny |
| 2000 | John Burnside | The Asylum Dance |
| 1999 | Seamus Heaney | Beowulf |
| 1998 | Ted Hughes | Birthday Letters |
| 1997 | Ted Hughes | Tales from Ovid |
| 1996 | Seamus Heaney | The Spirit Level |
| 1995 | Bernard O'Donoghue | Gunpowder |
| 1994 | James Fenton | Out of Danger |
| 1993 | Carol Ann Duffy | Mean Time |
| 1992 | Tony Harrison | The Gaze of the Gorgon |
| 1991 | Michael Longley | Gorse Fires |
| 1990 | Paul Durcan | Daddy, Daddy |
| 1989 | Michael Donaghy | Shibboleth |
| 1988 | Peter Porter | The Automatic Oracle |
| 1987 | Seamus Heaney | The Haw Lantern |
| 1986 | Peter Reading | Stet |
| 1985 | Douglas Dunn | Elegies |
| 1972-84 | No Awards | |
| 1971 | Geoffrey Hill | Mercian Hymns |
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