The Cholmondeley Awards for Poets were founded by the late Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966 to recognise the achievement and distinction of individual poets.
2022 Cholmondeley Award recipients
The recipients of the 2022 Cholmondeley Awards were:
- David Kinloch
- Gerry Loose
- Maggie O’Sullivan
- Menna Elfyn
- Tiffany Atkinson
About the Cholmondeley Awards selection process:
- The Cholmondeley Awards are honorary awards and submissions are not accepted
- Recipients are chosen by the Awards Committee for their general body of work and contribution to poetry.
For any queries relating to the prize please contact prizes@societyofauthors.org
With thanks, the judges for The Cholmondeley Awards:
Moniza Alvi
Moniza Alvi was born in Lahore to an English mother and a Pakistani father. She grew up in Hertfordshire. Her first collection The Country at My Shoulder (Oxford University Press, 1993) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and the Whitbread poetry prizes. Europa (Bloodaxe, 2008) and At the Time of Partition (Bloodaxe, 2013) were also shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Fairoz is published this spring. After a long career as a teacher in a London comprehensive school, Moniza now lives in Norfolk where she is completing a PhD at UEA on the poetry of Stevie Smith
Hannah Lowe
Hannah Lowe is a poet, memoirist and critic. She was named a Poetry Book Society Next Generation Poet in 2014 and won a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors in 2020. Her first poetry collection, Chick (20130, won the Michael Murphy Poetry Prize. Her latest, The Kids, a PBS Choice for Autumn 2021, was shortlisted for the 2022 TS Eliot Prize, and won the 2021 Costa Book of the Year. She is a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Brunel University. www.hannahlowe.me
Drew Milne
Drew Milne is a Staff Fellow and Director of Studies in English. He is the Judith E Wilson Professor in Poetics, in the Faculty of English. Both a poet and a critic, his research interests include poetics, drama and performance, especially Samuel Beckett. He also has long-standing interests in Shakespeare, tragedy, Marxist criticism and critical theory. Current research projects include studies of lichens, ecological poetics and contemporary poetics. He is the Keeper of the Lewis Collection.
Deryn Reese-Jones
Deryn Rees-Jones is a poet, critic and editor of the Pavilion Poetry list (Liverpool University Press). Recent books include Erato (shortlisted for the 2019 T S Eliot Prize), Fires (Shoestring) and Paula Rego: The Art of Story (Thames & Hudson). She is Professor of Poetry at the University of Liverpool
2022
- David Kinloch £1680
- Gerry Loose £1680
- Maggie O’Sullivan £1680
- Menna Elfyn £1680
- Tiffany Atkinson £1680
2021
- Kei Miller £1680
- Paula Claire £1680
- Maurice Riordan £1680
- Susan Wicks £1680
- Katrina Porteous £1680
2020
- Alec Finlay £1680
- Linda France £1680
- Hannah Lowe £1680
- Bhanu Kapil £1680
- Rod Mengham £1680
2019
- Malika Booker £2,100
- Fred D’Aguiar £2,100
- Allen Fisher £2,100
- Jamie McKendrick £2,100
2018
- Vahni Capildeo £1,680
- Kate Clanchy £1,680
- Linton Kwesi Johnson £1,680
- Daljit Nagra £1,680
- Zoë Skoulding £1,680
2017
- Caroline Bergvall £2,000
- Sasha Dugdale £2,000
- Philip Gross £2,000
- Paula Meehan £2,000
2016
- Maura Dooley £1,875
- David Morley £1,875
- Peter Sansom £1,875
- Iain Sinclair £1,875
2015
- Patience Agbabi £1,500
- Brian Catling £1,500
- Christopher Middleton £1,500
- Pascale Petit £1,500
- J. H. Prynne £1,500
2014
- W.N. Herbert £1,500
- Jeremy Hooker £1,500
- John James £1,500
- Glyn Maxwell £1,500
- Denise Riley £1,500
2013
- Simon Armitage £1,500
- Paul Farley £1,500
- Lee Harwood £1,500
- Medbh McGuckian £1,500
2012
- Christine Evans £2,000
- Don Paterson £2,000
- Peter Riley £2,000
- Robin Robertson £2,000
2011
- Imtiaz Dharker £2,500
- Michael Haslam £2,500
- Lachlan Mackinnon £2,500
2010
- Gillian Allnutt £1,500
- Colette Bryce £1,500
- Gwyneth Lewis £1,500
- Deryn Rees-Jones £1,500
2009
- Bernard O’Donoghue £1,500
- Alice Oswald £1,500
- Fiona Sampson £1,500
- Pauline Stainer £1,500
2008
- John Burnside £1,500
- John Greening £1,500
- David Harsent £1,500
- Sarah Maguire £1,500
2007
- Judith Kazantzis £2000
- Robert Nye £2000
- Penelope Shuttle £2000
2006
- Alan Jenkins £2,000
- Mimi Khalvati £2,000
- Jo Shapcott £2,000
2005
- Jane Duran £2,000
- Christopher Logue £2,000
- M. R. Peacocke £2,000
- Neil Rollinson £2,000
2004
- John Agard £2,000
- Ruth Padel £2,000
- Lawrence Sail £2,000
- Eva Salzman £2,000
2003
- Ciaran Carson £2,000
- Michael Donaghy £2,000
- Lavinia Greenlaw £2,000
- Jackie Kay £2,000
2002
- Moniza Alvi £2,000
- David Constantine £2,000
- Liz Lochhead £2,000
- Brian Patten £2,000
2001
- Ian Duhig £2,000
- Paul Durcan £2,000
- Kathleen Jamie £2,000
- Grace Nichols £2,000
2000
- Alistair Elliot £2,000
- Michael Hamburger £2,000
- Adrian Henri £2,000
- Carole Satyamurti £2,000
1999
- Vicki Feaver £2,000
- Geoffrey Hill £2,000
- Elma Mitchell £2,000
- Sheenagh Pugh £2,000
1998
- Roger McGough £2,000
- Robert Minhinnick £2,000
- Anne Ridler £2,000
- Ken Smith £2,000
1997
- Alison Brackenbury £2,000
- Gillian Clarke £2,000
- Tony Curtis £2,000
- Anne Stevenson £2,000
1996
- Elizabeth Bartlett £2,000
- Dorothy Nimmo £2,000
- Peter Scupham £2,000
- Iain Crichton Smith £2,000
1995
- U.A. Fanthorpe £2,000
- Christopher Reid £2,000
- C.H. Sisson £2,000
- Kit Wright £2,000
1994
- Ruth Fainlight £2,000
- Gwen Harwood £2,000
- Elizabeth Jennings £2,000
- John Mole £2,000
1993
- Patricia Beer £2,000
- George Mackay Brown £2,000
- P.J. Kavanagh £2,000
- Michael Longley £2,000
1992
- Allen Curnow £2,000
- Donald Davie £2,000
- Carol Ann Duffy £2,000
- Roger Woddis £2,000
1991
- James Berry £2,000
- Sujata Bhatt £2,000
- Michael Hulse £2,000
- Derek Mahon £2,000
1990
- Kingsley Amis £2,500
- Elaine Feinstein £2,500
- Michael O’Neill £2,500
1989
- Peter Didsbury £2,200
- Douglas Dunn £2,200
- E.J. Scovell £2,200
1988
- John Heath-Stubbs £2,000
- Sean O’Brien £2,000
- John Whitworth £2,000
1987
- Wendy Cope £1,300
- Matthew Sweeney £1,300
- George Szirtes £1,300
1986
- Lawrence Durrell £1,500
- James Fenton £1,500
- Selima Hill £500
1985
- Dannie Abse £1,100
- Peter Redgrove £1,100
- Brian Taylor £1,100
1984
- Michael Baldwin £1,100
- Michael Hoffmann £1,100
- Carol Rumens £1,100
1983
- John Fuller £1,000
- Craig Raine £1,000
- Anthony Thwaite £1,000
1982
- Basil Bunting £1,500
- Herbert Lomas £1,000
- William Scammell £500
1981
- Roy Fisher £1,000
- Robert Garioch £1,000
- Charles Boyle £800
1980
- George Barker £1,000
- Terence Tiller £1,000
- Roy Fuller £500
1979
- Alan Brownjohn £1,000
- Andrew Motion £500
- Charles Tomlinson £500
1978
- Christopher Hope £400
- Leslie Norris £400
- Peter Reading £400
- D.M. Thomas £400
- R.S. Thomas £400
1977
- Peter Bland £500
- George Macbeth £500
- James Simmons £500
- Andrew Waterman £500
1976
- Peter Porter £1,000
- Fleur Adcock £750
1975
- Jenny Joseph £500
- Norman Maccaig £500
- John Ormond £500
1974
- D.J. Enright £350
- Vernon Scannell £350
- Alasdair Maclean £350
1973
- Patric Dickinson £350
- Philip Larkin £350
1972
- Molly Holden £350
- Tom Raworth £350
- Patricia Whittaker £350
1971
- Charles Causley £350
- Gavin Ewart £350
- Hugo Williams £350
1970
- Kathleen Raine £350
- Douglas Livingstone £350
- Edward Brathwaite £350
1969
- Derek Walcott £650
- Tony Harrison £650
1968
- Harold Massingham £450
- Edwin Morgan £450
1967
- Seamus Heaney £350
- Brian Jones £350
- Norman Nicholson £350
1966
- Ted Walker £500
- Stevie Smith £300
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