Poetry Now Award


The Poetry Now Award is an annual literary prize presented for the best single volume of poetry by an Irish poet. The €5,000 award was first given in 2005 and is presented during annual Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown poetry festivals. From 2005 to 2011, it was bestowed during the Poetry Now international poetry festival which was held in March or April each year. In 2012 and 2013, the award was given during the Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival, in September. The award is sponsored by The Irish Times newspaper.

History

2018

Winner: Leontia Flynn, for The Radio
Shortlist:
Judges:
Winner: Paddy Bushe, for On A Turning Wing

2016

Winner: Caitríona O’Reilly, for Geis

2015

Winner: Theo Dorgan, for Nine Bright Shiners

2014

Winner: Sinéad Morrissey, for Parallax

2013

Winner: Dennis O'Driscoll, for Dear Life, awarded posthumously.
Shortlist:
Judges: Mary O'Donnell, Peter Sirr, and Ruth Webster.

2012

Winner: Michael Longley, for A Hundred Doors.
Shortlist:
Judges: Gerald Dawe, James Harpur, and Mary Shine Thompson.

2011

Winner: Seamus Heaney, for Human Chain.
Shortlist:
Judges: Brian Lynch, Leanne O'Sullivan, and Borbála Faragó.

2010

Winner: Sinéad Morrissey, for Through the Square Window.
Shortlist:
Judges: John F. Deane, Alan Gillis, and Maria Johnston.

2009

Winner: Derek Mahon, for Life on Earth.
Shortlist:
Judges: Kit Fryatt, Sean O'Brien, and Joseph Woods.

2008

Winner: Harry Clifton, for Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks 1994–2004.
Shortlist:
Judges: Philip Coleman, Sasha Dugdale, and William Wall.

2007

Winner: Seamus Heaney, for District and Circle.
Shortlist:
Judges: Eileen Battersby, Niall MacMonagle, and Maurice Riordan.

2006

Winner: Derek Mahon, for Harbour Lights.
Shortlist:
Judges: Patrick Crotty, Gerard Fanning, and Fiona Sampson.

2005

Winner: Dorothy Molloy, for Hare Soup, awarded posthumously for her début collection.
Shortlist:
Judges: Simon Armitage, Selina Guinness, and Colm Tóibín.