Poetry Now Award
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 and is presented during annual Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown poetry festivals. From 2005 to 2011, it was bestowed during the Poetry Now international poetry festival which was held in March or April each year. In 2012 and 2013, the award was given during the Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival, in September. The award is sponsored by The Irish Times newspaper.
History
2018
Winner: Leontia Flynn, for The RadioShortlist:
- Tara Bergin, The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx
- Leontia Flynn, The Radio
- Conor O'Callaghan, Live Streaming
- Mark Roper, Bindweed
- David Wheatley, The President of Planet Earth
2017
Winner: Paddy Bushe, for ''On A Turning Wing''2016
Winner: Caitríona O’Reilly, for ''Geis''2015
Winner: Theo Dorgan, for ''Nine Bright Shiners''2014
Winner: Sinéad Morrissey, for ''Parallax''2013
Winner: Dennis O'Driscoll, for Dear Life, awarded posthumously.Shortlist:
- Catherine Phil MacCarthy, The Invisible Threshold.
- Dennis O'Driscoll, Dear Life.
- Harry Clifton, The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass.
- James Harpur, Angels and Harvesters.
- Mark Roper, A Gather of Shadow.
2012
Winner: Michael Longley, for A Hundred Doors.Shortlist:
- Moya Cannon, Hands.
- Michael Longley, A Hundred Doors.
- John Montague, Speech Lessons.
- Bernard O'Donoghue, Farmers Cross.
- Macdara Woods, The Cotard Dimension.
2011
Winner: Seamus Heaney, for Human Chain.Shortlist:
- Sara Berkeley, The View from Here.
- Ciarán Carson, Until Before After.
- Dermot Healy, A Fool's Errand.
- Seamus Heaney, Human Chain.
- Paul Muldoon, Maggot.
2010
Winner: Sinéad Morrissey, for Through the Square Window.Shortlist:
- Ciarán Carson, On the Night Watch.
- Vona Groarke, Spindrift.
- Sinéad Morrissey, Through the Square Window.
- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Sun-fish.
- Peter Sirr, The Thing Is.
2009
Winner: Derek Mahon, for Life on Earth.Shortlist:
- Colette Bryce, Self-Portrait in the Dark.
- Ciarán Carson, For All We Know.
- Leontia Flynn, Drives.
- Pearse Hutchinson, At Least For a While.
- Derek Mahon, Life on Earth.
2008
Winner: Harry Clifton, for Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks 1994–2004.Shortlist:
- Harry Clifton, Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks 1994–2004.
- Eamon Grennan, Out of Breath.
- Dave Lordan, The Boy in the Ring.
- Dennis O'Driscoll, Reality Check.
- Matthew Sweeney, Black Moon.
2007
Winner: Seamus Heaney, for District and Circle.Shortlist:
- Seamus Heaney, District and Circle.
- Medbh McGuckian, The Currach Requires No Harbours.
- Paul Muldoon, Horse Latitudes.
- Caitriona O'Reilly, The Sea Cabinet.
- David Wheatley, Mocker.
2006
Winner: Derek Mahon, for Harbour Lights.Shortlist:
- John F. Deane, The Instruments of Art.
- Nick Laird, To a Fault.
- Derek Mahon, Harbour Lights.
- Sinéad Morrissey, The State of the Prisons.
- Conor O'Callaghan, Fiction.
2005
Winner: Dorothy Molloy, for Hare Soup, awarded posthumously for her début collection.Shortlist:
- Paul Durcan, The Art of Life.
- Alan Gillis, Somebody Somewhere.
- Medbh McGuckian, The Book of the Angel.
- Dorothy Molloy, Hare Soup.
- Peter Sirr, Nonetheless.