• 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...
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  • Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry Jibanananda Das Award All India Poetry Prize Kim Su-yông Contemporary Poetry Award Hadiah Sastera Perdana Malaysia...
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    of the 2006 Irish Times Poetry Now Award) 2008: Life on Earth, Gallery Press (winner of the 2009 Irish Times Poetry Now Award) 2010: An Autumn Wind.,...
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    the Prisons, was shortlisted for the Poetry Now Award in 2006. The same collection won the Michael Hartnett Poetry Prize in 2005. In November 2007, she...
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    Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award 2008 : Irish Times Poetry Now Award for Secular Eden 2012 : shortlisted for Irish Times Poetry Now Award for The Winter Sleep...
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  • Nick Laird (section Poetry)
    shortlisted for the Poetry Now Award in 2006; and it was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Laird won the Eric Gregory Award in 2004 and also...
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  • Costa Book Award for Novel Costa Book Award for First Novel Costa Book Award for Children's Book Costa Book Award for Poetry Costa Book Award for Biography...
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  • Gangadhar National Award For Poetry is a literary award given in the field of literature for poetry by Sambalpur University. It is named after Gangadhar...
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  • D. R. Bendre (category Recipients of the Jnanpith Award)
    Kannada to the world. In 1973, Bendre was awarded the Jnanapitha, India's highest literary award, for his 1964 poetry collection, Naaku Tanti (ನಾಕು ತಂತಿ) (lit...
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    of books." In December 1923, Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression...
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    Dublin, where she was awarded a PhD on American poetry, and was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for her poetry collection, The Nowhere...
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    Shiv Kumar Batalvi (category Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Punjabi)
    (1965), now considered a masterpiece in modern Punjabi literature, and which also created a new genre, of modern Punjabi kissa. Today, his poetry stands...
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  • Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings...
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  • the Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection 2010 award and the Irish Times Poetry Now Award for 2011, this was Heaney's second Poetry Now Award, having previously...
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  • being human. He received the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation in 1998. Grennan was nominated for the 2008 Poetry Now Award for his collection, Out of Breath...
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  • Nissim Ezekiel (category Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in English)
    India's literary history, specifically for Indian poetry in English. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983 for his collection, "Latter-Day Psalms"...
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  • Whitty, the local Wexford poet. He was shortlisted in 2005 for the Poetry Now Award for his collection, The Art of Life. In 2009, he was conferred with...
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    writer of children's poetry who has published over 50 poetry collections. He served as the first U.S. Children's Poet Laureate (now called the Young People's...
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    University who won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his 2014 book Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude...
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    The Irish Times Poetry Now Award, the national poetry prize of Ireland and was awarded the Michael Hartnett Award. She was also awarded the Rooney Prize...
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    Paul Muldoon (category Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners)
    Prize for Poetry, and the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry. He was also shortlisted for the 2007 Poetry Now Award. Muldoon's...
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  • then, the awards program has evolved into the ACT Literary Awards, which now encompasses multiple categories across fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children’s...
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    Seamus Heaney (category Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath laureates)
    2007 Poetry Now Award for District and Circle 2009 David Cohen Prize 2011 Poetry Now Award for Human Chain 2011 Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award 2012...
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  • Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Poetry is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation to a LGBTQ+ themed book of poetry. At the first...
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  • He has been shortlisted twice for the Poetry Now Award (2007, 2018), and was awarded The Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize, in 2008. Collections Thirst (Gallery...
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  • Theo Dorgan (section Poetry)
    the board of Cork European Capital of Culture 2005. He was awarded the 2015 Poetry Now Award for Nine Bright Shiners. The ordinary house of love, Salmon...
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    1982) is an American poet, novelist, and essayist. Beginning a career in poetry, her collections include Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, a 2014 New...
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  • Mo-ghéanar cheanglas cumann bainríoghna Thomas Kinsella stated that: "His poetry, with its close-down of all positive feeling, dates ... to the time of confiscations...
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    District and Circle (category 2006 poetry books)
    Eliot Prize, the most prestigious poetry award in the UK. The collection also won the Irish Times "Poetry Now Award". Reporting on the Eliot Prize, the...
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  • Times Poetry Now Award, the Pigott Poetry Prize and the Roehampton Poetry Prize. In 2022 American Mules won the Pigott Poetry Prize. "Putting poetry in motion"...
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