• 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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    Derek Mahon (section Poetry)
    Poetry Now Award) 2007: Somewhere the Wave. Gallery Press 2008: Life on Earth. Gallery Press (shortlisted for the 2009 International Griffin Poetry Prize;...
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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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  • 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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    Vikram Seth (category Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in English)
    novels and poetry books. He has won several awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Akademi Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • Paddy Bushe (section Poetry)
    2006: Oireachtas na Gaeilge prize for poetry 2006: Michael Hartnett Poetry Award 2016: The Irish Times Poetry Now Award for On A Turning Wing (Dedalus 2016)...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • Studies in Minnesota Poetry Book Society Special Commendation for New and Selected Poems Shortlisted for The Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2008 for Reality...
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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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    Nikki Giovanni (category American Book Award winners)
    won numerous awards, including the Langston Hughes Medal and the NAACP Image Award. She was nominated for a 2004 Grammy Award for her poetry album, The...
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  • enough French poetry submissions to present an award; accordingly, the French section is now divided into poetry and children's literature awards presented...
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  • the Poetry Book Society. Her second collection, The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Poetry Now Award. Bergin...
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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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • The Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award is an Irish poetry award for a collection of poems by an author who has not previously been published in collected form...
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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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    several awards for poets and poetry. It also hosts free workshops, readings, exhibitions, and is home to a 30,000-volume poetry library. The Poetry Foundation...
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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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    'epic' could refer to all poetry in dactylic hexameter (epea), which included not only Homer but also the wisdom poetry of Hesiod, the utterances of...
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    Kaveh Akbar (section Poetry)
    author of the poetry collections Calling a Wolf a Wolf and Pilgrim Bell and of the novel Martyr!, a New York Times bestseller, National Book Award finalist...
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    The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually for Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first presented in 1922...
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