The Ted Hughes Award was an annual literary prize given to a living UK poet for new work in poetry. It was awarded each spring in recognition of a work from the previous year. It was a project which ran alongside Carol Ann Duffy's tenure as Poet Laureate, which ended when Duffy finished her 10 years as Poet Laureate in 2019
Background The award was established in 2009 with the permission of Carol Hughes in honour of British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes.Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry History. Annually the members of the Poetry Society and Poetry Book Society recommended a living UK poet who had completed the newest and most innovative work that year, "highlighting outstanding contributions made by poets to our cultural life." The award sought to celebrate new work that might have fallen beyond the conventional realms of poetry, embracing mediums such as music, dance and theatre. The £5,000 prize funded from the annual honorarium that Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy receives as Laureate from The Queen.Ted Hughes Award, hosted by the Poetry Society Website of the British Monarchy, "New poetry award announced", 9 July 2009
Winners +Ted Hughes Award winnersYearJudgesAuthorTitleResultRef.2009 Imtiaz Dharker Tim Supple Jo Shapcott with etchings by Jessica GreenmanWeeds and Wildflowers WinnerNext To Nothing ShortlistNew Selected Poems 1949-2009: Anniversary Collection ShortlistGrain ShortlistField Recordings: BBC Poems (1998-2008) ShortlistShortlistShortlist2010 Gillian Clarke Stephen Raw Jeanette WintersonWinnerWhistleShortlistSong of LunchShortlist with wood-cuts by Clare DunneShortlistShortlist2011 Edmund de Waal Sarah Maguire Michael Symmons RobertsAudio ObscuraWinnerBlack Roses: The Killing of Sophie LancasterShortlistGhost LinesShortlistSimonidesShortlistLaurels and Donkeys ShortlistAirs and Ditties of No Man’s LandShortlist2012 Cornelia Parker Ian Duhig Maura DooleyBrand New AncientsWinnerBallasting the ArkShortlistLocklinesShortlistShortlistTales from the BridgeShortlistShortlistFormerlyShortlist2013 Sean Borodale Eileen Cooper Denise RileyZones of AvoidanceWinnerOswald’s Book of HoursShortlistPharmapoeticaShortlistTotal ManShortlistShortlist2014 Julia Copus Kei Miller Grayson PerryComing HomeWinnerTelling Tales ShortlistOver the Moon ShortlistImagined Sons Shortlist TithonusShortlist2015 Jackie Kay Andrew McMillan Ali SmithWinner and Sarah MaguireHe Tells Tales of Meroe ShortlistSketches from the Poem Road ShortlistClay ShortlistWe Are Writing a Poem about Home ShortlistMahabharata: A Modern Retelling Shortlist2016 Jo Bell Bernard O'Donoghue Kathryn WilliamsNobody Told MeWinnerShortlistLIVEwireShortlist SunshineShortlist Finders KeepersShortlistNobody Told MeShortlistShortlist2017 Gillian Allnutt Sally Beamish Lemn SissaySurge: Side AWinnerIn These Days of ProhibitionShortlistChingonyi for Kumukanda Shortlist#AfterhoursShortlistShortlistShortlistWho’s There? Shortlist2018Judges:
Clare Shaw Linton Kwesi Johnson Rev. Canon Mark OakleyWinnerGirls Are Coming Out of the WoodsShortlistShortlistWords the Turtle Taught MeShortlistThree Poems Shortlist
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