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Forward Prize Winners

Congratulations to all the poets on the Forward Prizes shortlists this year and to these three worthy winners. Find out more about their award winning poetry below and order with 25% off for PBS Members.

BEST FIRST COLLECTION WINNER

Amnion by Stephanie Sy-Quia <b><br>PBS Winter Recommendation 2021</b>

Amnion by Stephanie Sy-Quia
PBS Winter Recommendation 2021

The Best First Collection Prize was awarded to the recent PBS Recommendation Amnion by Stephanie Sy Quia(Granta Books) which spotlights colonialism, class and migration through an accomplished blending of fiction, epic poetry and the lyric essay. Judge Alice Hiller praised the collection for "always questioning how the individual narratives are sited relative to the dominant power structures and historical realities shaping their outcomes." Rishi Dastidar said: "Amnion makes the blood flow faster, it is dazzling, new and exciting in the way it braids the personal with the broader context."

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BEST COLLECTION WINNER

All the Men I Never Married by Kim Moore

All the Men I Never Married by Kim Moore

The Best Collection Prize was awarded to Kim Moore for All the Men I Never Married (Seren Books) which deals with experiences of everyday sexism. Judges chair, Fatima Bhutto found the collection "full of dangerous wit and knowing humour that speaks directly to the reader in a hugely pleasurable way." Whilst judge Nadine Aisha Jassat described it as "A phenomenal and powerful collection, and one I urgently want to share with everyone I know. It feels so true, precise, brilliant and layered."

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BEST SINGLE POEM WINNER

Up Late by Nick Laird

Up Late by Nick Laird

Due out in June 2023

The Best Single Poem was awarded to ‘Up Late’ by Nick Laird (published in Granta) - an elegy to his father who died of Covid in March 2021. Nick said "It was the peculiar circumstances of the covid pandemic, where you couldn’t be with your dying loved ones, that brought the poem about in that form." The judges felt Laird’s poem sincerely engaged with death, grief and the private and shared lived experience of the pandemic in ways which readers will find profoundly moving and cathartic. Up Late will be published in a new collection by Nick Laird in June 2023.

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The Forward Book of Poetry 2023

The Forward Book of Poetry 2023

The Forward Book of Poetry is the indispensable annual guide to contemporary poetry. In bringing together the best new work published... Learn more

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