Past Winners and Judges
2007 Award
Lloyd Jones, Mr Cassini (Seren)
Jim Perrin, The Climbing Essays (In Pinn)
Christine Evans, Growth Rings (Seren)
2006 Award
Robert Minhinnick, To Babel and Back (Seren)
Kitty Sewell, Ice Trap (Honno)
Ifor Thomas, Body Beautiful (Parthian)
Judges
Nicola Heywood Thomas
John Sam Jones
Daniel Williams
2005 Award
Owen Sheers, The Dust Diaries (Faber)
Trezza Azzopardi, Remember Me, Picador
Richard Collins, The Land as Viewed from the Sea, Seren
Judges
Charlotte Williams
Tony Brown
Patrick Hannan
2004 Award
Niall Griffiths, Stump (Jonathan Cape)
Emyr Humphreys, Old People Are A Problem (Seren)
Gwyneth Lewis, Keeping Mum (Bloodaxe Books)
Judges
Heike Roms
Sheenagh Pugh
Mario Basini
2003 Award
Charlotte Williams, Sugar and Slate (Planet)
Jo Mazelis, Diving Girls (Parthian)
Sheenagh Pugh, The Beautiful Lie (Seren)
Judges
Brenda Maddox
Nicholas Murray
Hazel Walford Davies
2002 Award
Stevie Davies, The Element of Water (The Women’s Press)
Matthew Francis, Dragons (Faber)
Jean Earle, Bed of Memory (Seren)
Judges
Paul Ferris
Stephen Knight
Mavis Nicholson
Back to Top
2001 Award
Stephen Knight, Mr Schnitzel (Viking)
Desmond Barry, D (Cape)
Owen Sheers, The Blue Book (Seren Books)
Judges
Bernice Rubens
Peter Florence
Peter Stead
2000 Award
Sheenagh Pugh, Stonelight (Seren Books)
Stevie Davies, Impassioned Clay (The Women’s Press)
Sarah Waters, Affinity (Virago)
Judges
Prof. Walford Davies
Jeni Williams
Catherine Merriman
1999 Award
Emyr Humphreys, The Gift of a Daughter (Seren Books)
Gillian Clarke, Five Fields (Carcanet Press)
Gwyneth Lewis, Zero Gravity (Bloodaxe Books)
Judges
Dr Stevie Davies
Glyn Pursglove
Catherine Fisher
1998 Award
Mike Jenkins, Wanting to Belong (Seren Books)
Stevie Davies, The Web of Belonging (The Women’s Press)
Sheenagh Pugh, Id’s Hospit (Seren Books)
Judges
Merryn Williams
Dai Smith
John Pikoulis
1997 Award
Siân James, Not Singing Exactly (Honno)
Ruth Bidgood, The Fluent Moment (Seren Books)
Rhidian Brook, The Testimony of Taliesin Jones (Flamingo)
1996 Award
Nigel Jenkins, Gwalia in Khasia (Gwasg Gomer)
Gwyneth Lewis, Parables and Faxes (Bloodaxe Books)
R S Thomas, No Truce with the Furies (Bloodaxe Books)
1995 Award
Duncan Bush, Masks (Seren Books)
Robert Minhinnick, Hey Fatman (Seren Books)
Jan Morris, A Machynlleth Triad (Hutchinson)
1994 Award
Paul Ferris, Caitlin, The Life of Caitlin Thomas (Hutchinson)
Gillian Clarke, The King of Britain’s Daughter (Carcanet Press)
Christopher Evans, Aztec Century (Victor Gollancz)
1993 Award
Robert Minhinnick, Watching the Fire Eater (Seren Books)
Andrew Davies, B Monkey (Limetree/ Minereva)
Ruth Bidgood, Selected Poems (Seren Books)
1992 Award
Emyr Humphries, Bonds of Attachment (Macdonald/ Sphere)
Christopher Meredith, Griffri (Seren Books)
Catherine Merriman, Silly Mothers (Honno)