# Ted Hughes Award

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. 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.

## Winners

Ted Hughes Award winners :
| Year | Judges | Author | Title | Result |
| 2009 | Imtiaz Dharker Tim Supple Jo Shapcott | Alice Oswald with etchings by Jessica Greenman | Weeds and Wildflowers | Winner |
| 2009 | Imtiaz Dharker Tim Supple Jo Shapcott | Chris Agee | Next To Nothing | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Imtiaz Dharker Tim Supple Jo Shapcott | Dannie Abse | New Selected Poems 1949-2009: Anniversary Collection | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Imtiaz Dharker Tim Supple Jo Shapcott | John Glenday | Grain | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Imtiaz Dharker Tim Supple Jo Shapcott | Paul Farley | Field Recordings: BBC Poems (1998-2008) | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Imtiaz Dharker Tim Supple Jo Shapcott | Jackie Kay | The Maw Broon Monologues | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Imtiaz Dharker Tim Supple Jo Shapcott | Andrew Motion | The Cinder Path | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Gillian Clarke Stephen Raw Jeanette Winterson | Kaite O'Reilly | The Persians | Winner |
| 2010 | Gillian Clarke Stephen Raw Jeanette Winterson | Martin Figura | Whistle | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Gillian Clarke Stephen Raw Jeanette Winterson | Christopher Reid | Song of Lunch | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Gillian Clarke Stephen Raw Jeanette Winterson | David Swann with wood-cuts by Clare Dunne | The Privilege of Rain | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Gillian Clarke Stephen Raw Jeanette Winterson | Katharine Towers | The Floating Man | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Edmund de Waal Sarah Maguire Michael Symmons Roberts | Lavinia Greenlaw | Audio Obscura | Winner |
| 2011 | Edmund de Waal Sarah Maguire Michael Symmons Roberts | Simon Armitage | Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Edmund de Waal Sarah Maguire Michael Symmons Roberts | Julia Copus | Ghost Lines | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Edmund de Waal Sarah Maguire Michael Symmons Roberts | Robert Crawford | Simonides | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Edmund de Waal Sarah Maguire Michael Symmons Roberts | Andrew Motion | Laurels and Donkeys | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Edmund de Waal Sarah Maguire Michael Symmons Roberts | Christopher Reid | Airs and Ditties of No Man’s Land | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Cornelia Parker Ian Duhig Maura Dooley | Kae Tempest | Brand New Ancients | Winner |
| 2012 | Cornelia Parker Ian Duhig Maura Dooley | Colette Bryce | Ballasting the Ark | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Cornelia Parker Ian Duhig Maura Dooley | Roy Fisher | Locklines | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Cornelia Parker Ian Duhig Maura Dooley | Ruth Padel | The Mara Crossing | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Cornelia Parker Ian Duhig Maura Dooley | Mario Petrucci | Tales from the Bridge | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Cornelia Parker Ian Duhig Maura Dooley | Denise Riley | A Part Song | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Cornelia Parker Ian Duhig Maura Dooley | Tamar Yoseloff | Formerly | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Sean Borodale Eileen Cooper Denise Riley | Maggie Sawkins | Zones of Avoidance | Winner |
| 2013 | Sean Borodale Eileen Cooper Denise Riley | Steve Ely | Oswald’s Book of Hours | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Sean Borodale Eileen Cooper Denise Riley | Chris McCabe | Pharmapoetica | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Sean Borodale Eileen Cooper Denise Riley | Hannah Silva | Total Man | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Sean Borodale Eileen Cooper Denise Riley | Zoë Skoulding | The Museum of Disappearing Sounds | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Julia Copus Kei Miller Grayson Perry | Sir Andrew Motion | Coming Home | Winner |
| 2014 | Julia Copus Kei Miller Grayson Perry | Patience Agbabi | Telling Tales | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Julia Copus Kei Miller Grayson Perry | Imtiaz Dharker | Over the Moon | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Julia Copus Kei Miller Grayson Perry | Carrie Etter | Imagined Sons | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Julia Copus Kei Miller Grayson Perry | Alice Oswald | Tithonus | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Jackie Kay Andrew McMillan Ali Smith | David Morley | The Invisible Gift: Selected Poems | Winner |
| 2015 | Jackie Kay Andrew McMillan Ali Smith | Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi and Sarah Maguire | He Tells Tales of Meroe | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Jackie Kay Andrew McMillan Ali Smith | Chris Beckett | Sketches from the Poem Road | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Jackie Kay Andrew McMillan Ali Smith | Elizabeth Burns | Clay | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Jackie Kay Andrew McMillan Ali Smith | Kate Clanchy | We Are Writing a Poem about Home | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Jackie Kay Andrew McMillan Ali Smith | Carole Satyamurti | Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Jo Bell Bernard O'Donoghue Kathryn Williams | Hollie McNish | Nobody Told Me | Winner |
| 2016 | Jo Bell Bernard O'Donoghue Kathryn Williams | Will Eaves | The Inevitable Gift Shop | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Jo Bell Bernard O'Donoghue Kathryn Williams | Salena Godden | LIVEwire | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Jo Bell Bernard O'Donoghue Kathryn Williams | Melissa Lee-Houghton | Sunshine | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Jo Bell Bernard O'Donoghue Kathryn Williams | Harry Man | Finders Keepers | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Jo Bell Bernard O'Donoghue Kathryn Williams | Hollie McNish | Nobody Told Me | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Jo Bell Bernard O'Donoghue Kathryn Williams | Caroline Smith | The Immigration Handbook | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Gillian Allnutt Sally Beamish Lemn Sissay | Jay Bernard | Surge: Side A | Winner |
| 2017 | Gillian Allnutt Sally Beamish Lemn Sissay | Caroline Bird | In These Days of Prohibition | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Gillian Allnutt Sally Beamish Lemn Sissay | Kayo Chingonyi | Chingonyi for Kumukanda | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Gillian Allnutt Sally Beamish Lemn Sissay | Inua Ellams | #Afterhours | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Gillian Allnutt Sally Beamish Lemn Sissay | Matthew Francis | The Mabinogi | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Gillian Allnutt Sally Beamish Lemn Sissay | Antony Owen | The Nagasaki Elder | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Gillian Allnutt Sally Beamish Lemn Sissay | Greta Stoddart | Who’s There? | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Judges: Clare Shaw Linton Kwesi Johnson Rev. Canon Mark Oakley | Raymond Antrobus | The Perseverance | Winner |
| 2018 | Judges: Clare Shaw Linton Kwesi Johnson Rev. Canon Mark Oakley | Tishani Doshi | Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Judges: Clare Shaw Linton Kwesi Johnson Rev. Canon Mark Oakley | Roy McFarlane | The Healing Next Time | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Judges: Clare Shaw Linton Kwesi Johnson Rev. Canon Mark Oakley | Susan Richardson | Words the Turtle Taught Me | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Judges: Clare Shaw Linton Kwesi Johnson Rev. Canon Mark Oakley | Hannah Sullivan | Three Poems | Shortlist |