The Cholmondeley Awards for Poets are administered by the Society of Authors. Established in 1966 in order to "recognise the achievement and distinction of individual poets", the awards are named in honour of the late Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley. The award is currently worth £2,000 to each individual and has been since 1988.
Past Winners
- 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, Edward Brathwaite
- 1971 - Charles Causley, Gavin Ewart,Hugo Williams
- 1972 - Molly Holden, Tom Raworth, Patricia Whittaker
- 1973 - Patric Dickinson, Philip Larkin
- 1974 - D.J. 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, D.M. Thomas, R.S. 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 Hoffmann, 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, E.J. 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, P.J. Kavanagh, Michael Longley
- 1994 - Ruth Fainlight, Gwen Harwood, Elizabeth Jennings, John Mole
- 1995 - U.A. Fanthorpe, Christopher Reid, C.H. 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, M. R. Peacocke, Neil Rollinson
- 2006 - Alan Jenkins, Mimi Khalvati, Jo Shapcott
REFERENCES
http://www.societyofauthors.net