# Cholmondeley Award

The Cholmondeley Awards (/ˈtʃʌmli/ CHUM-lee) are annual awards for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966. Since 1991 the award has been made to four poets each year, to the total value of £8000.

## List of prize winners
### 2000s

2000s Cholmondeley Awards winners :
| Year | Winner |
| 2000 | Alistair Elliot |
| 2000 | Michael Hamburger |
| 2000 | Adrian Henri |
| 2000 | Carole Satyamurti |
| 2001 | Ian Duhig |
| 2001 | Paul Durcan |
| 2001 | Kathleen Jamie |
| 2001 | Grace Nichols |
| 2002 | Moniza Alvi |
| 2002 | David Constantine |
| 2002 | Liz Lochhead |
| 2002 | Brian Patten |
| 2003 | Ciaran Carson |
| 2003 | Michael Donaghy |
| 2003 | Lavinia Greenlaw |
| 2003 | Jackie Kay |
| 2004 | John Agard |
| 2004 | Ruth Padel |
| 2004 | Lawrence Sail |
| 2004 | Eva Salzman |
| 2005 | Jane Duran |
| 2005 | Christopher Logue |
| 2005 | M. R. Peacocke |
| 2005 | Neil Rollinson |
| 2006 | Alan Jenkins |
| 2006 | Mimi Khalvati |
| 2006 | Jo Shapcott |
| 2007 | Judith Kazantzis |
| 2007 | Robert Nye |
| 2007 | Penelope Shuttle |
| 2008 | John Burnside |
| 2008 | John Greening |
| 2008 | David Harsent |
| 2008 | Sarah Maguire |
| 2009 | Bernard O'Donoghue |
| 2009 | Alice Oswald |
| 2009 | Fiona Sampson |
| 2009 | Pauline Stainer |
| 2010 | Gillian Allnutt |
| 2010 | Colette Bryce |
| 2010 | Gwyneth Lewis |
| 2010 | Deryn Rees-Jones |
| 2011 | Imtiaz Dharker |
| 2011 | Michael Haslam |
| 2011 | Lachlan Mackinnon |
| 2012 | Christine Evans |
| 2012 | Don Paterson |
| 2012 | Peter Riley |
| 2012 | Robin Robertson |
| 2013 | Simon Armitage |
| 2013 | Paul Farley |
| 2013 | Lee Harwood |
| 2013 | Medbh McGuckian |
| 2014 | W.N. Herbert |
| 2014 | Jeremy Hooker |
| 2014 | John James |
| 2014 | Glyn Maxwell |
| 2014 | Denise Riley |
| 2015 | Patience Agbabi |
| 2015 | Brian Catling |
| 2015 | Christopher Middleton |
| 2015 | Pascale Petit |
| 2015 | J. H. Prynne |
| 2016 | Maura Dooley |
| 2016 | David Morley |
| 2016 | Peter Sansom |
| 2016 | Iain Sinclair |
| 2017 | Caroline Bergvall |
| 2017 | Sasha Dugdale |
| 2017 | Philip Gross |
| 2017 | Paula Meehan |
| 2018 | Vahni Capildeo |
| 2018 | Kate Clanchy |
| 2018 | Linton Kwesi Johnson |
| 2018 | Daljit Nagra |
| 2018 | Zoë Skoulding |
| 2019 | Malika Booker |
| 2019 | Fred D'Aguiar |
| 2019 | Allen Fisher |
| 2019 | Jamie McKendrick |
| 2020 | Alec Finlay |
| 2020 | Linda France |
| 2020 | Bhanu Kapil |
| 2020 | Hannah Lowe |
| 2020 | Rod Mengham |
| 2021 | Paula Claire |
| 2021 | Kei Miller |
| 2021 | Katrina Porteous |
| 2021 | Maurice Riordan |
| 2021 | Susan Wicks |
| 2022 | Tiffany Atkinson |
| 2022 | Menna Elfyn |
| 2022 | David Kinloch |
| 2022 | Gerry Loose |
| 2022 | Maggie O'Sullivan |
| 2023 | Caroline Bird |
| 2023 | Jane Draycott |
| 2023 | Greta Stoddart |
| 2023 | Michael Symmons Roberts |
| 2023 | Jackie Wills |
| 2023 | Tamar Yoseloff |

### 1900s

1900s Cholmondeley Awards winners :
| Year | Winner |
| 1966 | Ted Walker |
| 1966 | Stevie Smith |
| 1967 | Seamus Heaney |
| 1967 | Brian Jones |
| 1967 | Norman Nicholson |
| 1968 | Harold Massingham |
| 1968 | Edwin Morgan |
| 1969 | Derek Walcott |
| 1969 | Tony Harrison |
| 1970 | Kathleen Raine |
| 1970 | Douglas Livingstone |
| 1970 | Edward Brathwaite |
| 1971 | Charles Causley |
| 1971 | Gavin Ewart |
| 1971 | Hugo Williams |
| 1972 | Molly Holden |
| 1972 | Tom Raworth |
| 1972 | Patricia Whittaker |
| 1973 | Patric Dickinson |
| 1973 | Philip Larkin |
| 1974 | D. J. Enright |
| 1974 | Vernon Scannell |
| 1974 | Alasdair Maclean |
| 1975 | Jenny Joseph |
| 1975 | Norman MacCaig |
| 1975 | John Ormond |
| 1976 | Peter Porter |
| 1976 | Fleur Adcock |
| 1977 | Peter Bland |
| 1977 | George MacBeth |
| 1977 | James Simmons |
| 1977 | Andrew Waterman |
| 1978 | D. M. Thomas |
| 1978 | R. S. Thomas |
| 1978 | Christopher Hope |
| 1978 | Leslie Norris |
| 1978 | Peter Reading |
| 1979 | Alan Brownjohn |
| 1979 | Andrew Motion |
| 1979 | Charles Tomlinson |
| 1980 | George Barker |
| 1980 | Terence Tiller |
| 1980 | Roy Fuller |
| 1981 | Roy Fisher |
| 1981 | Robert Garioch |
| 1981 | Charles Boyle |
| 1982 | Basil Bunting |
| 1982 | Herbert Lomas |
| 1982 | William Scammell |
| 1983 | John Fuller |
| 1983 | Craig Raine |
| 1983 | Anthony Thwaite |
| 1984 | Michael Baldwin |
| 1984 | Michael Hofmann |
| 1984 | Carol Rumens |
| 1985 | Dannie Abse |
| 1985 | Peter Redgrove |
| 1985 | Brian Taylor |
| 1986 | Lawrence Durrell |
| 1986 | James Fenton |
| 1986 | Selima Hill |
| 1987 | Wendy Cope |
| 1987 | Matthew Sweeney |
| 1987 | George Szirtes |
| 1988 | John Heath-Stubbs |
| 1988 | Sean O'Brien |
| 1988 | John Whitworth |
| 1989 | E. J. Scovell |
| 1989 | Peter Didsbury |
| 1989 | Douglas Dunn |
| 1990 | Kingsley Amis |
| 1990 | Elaine Feinstein |
| 1990 | Michael O'Neill |
| 1991 | James Berry |
| 1991 | Sujata Bhatt |
| 1991 | Michael Hulse |
| 1991 | Derek Mahon |
| 1992 | Carol Ann Duffy |
| 1992 | Allen Curnow |
| 1992 | Donald Davie |
| 1992 | Roger Woddis |
| 1993 | George Mackay Brown |
| 1993 | P. J. Kavanagh |
| 1993 | Patricia Beer |
| 1993 | Michael Longley |
| 1994 | Ruth Fainlight |
| 1994 | Gwen Harwood |
| 1994 | Elizabeth Jennings |
| 1994 | John Mole |
| 1995 | U. A. Fanthorpe |
| 1995 | C. H. Sisson |
| 1995 | Christopher Reid |
| 1995 | Kit Wright |
| 1996 | Iain Crichton Smith |
| 1996 | Elizabeth Bartlett |
| 1996 | Dorothy Nimmo |
| 1996 | Peter Scupham |
| 1997 | Alison Brackenbury |
| 1997 | Gillian Clarke |
| 1997 | Tony Curtis |
| 1997 | Anne Stevenson |
| 1998 | Roger McGough |
| 1998 | Robert Minhinnick |
| 1998 | Anne Ridler |
| 1998 | Ken Smith |
| 1999 | Vicki Feaver |
| 1999 | Geoffrey Hill |
| 1999 | Elma Mitchell |
| 1999 | Sheenagh Pugh |