CHOLMONDELEY AWARD

The 'Cholmondeley Award' is an annual award for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the late Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966. Since 1991 the award has been made to four poets each year, to the total value of £8000.

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Winners

See also

External links

Winners

'Past Winners'

'Year'	'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 Hofmann - 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

See also

★ List of British literary awards

★ British poetry

★ List of poetry awards

★ List of years in poetry

★ List of years in literature

External links

★ Society of Authors Awards page

★ Complete list of past winners

★ Information from recent years