Celebrating the year's best new poetry, The Forward Prizes are amongst the leading awards for poetry in the UK and Ireland. Awarded across three categories – the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection and the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem – they recognise the work of new and aspiring poets alongside well-established names.
 

This year's winners are . . .
Best Collection: All The Men I Never Married by Kim Moore
Best First Collection: Amnion by Stephanie Sy-Quia
Best Single Poem: Up Late by Nick Laird

This year's shortlists feature a biblical vision rich in metaphor and metaphysics, a superlative unpacking of the subtext of female bodies through time, and a bravura melding of motherhood, migration and popular culture, amongst other bold and innovative collections.  The winners will be announced on Monday 28 November.

Shortlist for Best Collection:

Pilgrim Bell. Kaveh Akbar. 

Sonnets for Albert. Anthony Joseph. 

Cain Named The Animal. Shane McCrae.

All The Men I Never Married. Kim Moore. 

The Illustrated Woman. Helen Mort. 

Shortlist for the Felix Dennix Prize for First Collection:

Rifqa. Mohammed El-Kurd. 

The English Summer. Holly Hopkins. 

Some Integrity. Padraig Regan. 

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head. Warsan Shire.

Amnion. Stephanie Sy-Quia. 

The shortlist for Best Single Poem:

Louisa Campbell: "Dog on a British Airways Airbus" 
Cecilia Knapp: "I’m Shouting I LOVED YOUR DAD at my Brother’s Cat" 
Nick Laird: "Up Late" 
Carl Phillips: "Scattered Snows, to the North" 
Clare Pollard: "Pollen"