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The Forward Prizes for Poetry were created in 1991 by William Sieghart with the aim of celebrating excellence in poetry and increasing its audience, raising poetry's profile and linking poetry to people in new ways. The prizes do this by identifying and honouring talent. Each year, works shortlisted for the prizes - plus those highly commended by the judges - are collected in the Forward Book of Poetry. The awards. sponsored since their inception by the marketing agency (Forward Worldwide ), are the most important annual poetry prizes in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland: winners include Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Alice Oswald, Ted Hughes, Carol Ann Duffy, Kathleen Jamie and Claudia Rankine. The winners of the 2015 prizes were awarded on 28 September 2015 at Southbank Centre: * Claudia Rankine, ''Citizen: An American Lyric'' (Penguin Books) - The Forward Prize for Best Collection * Mona Arshi, ''Small Hands'' (Liverpool University Press) - The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection * Claire Harman, 'The Mighty Hudson' (TLS) - The Forward Prize for Best Single Poem The 24th ''Forward Book of Poetry'', an anthology of all the poems shortlisted for the prizes or highly commended by the judges, was published on 17 September 2015. ''Poems of the Decade: an Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry'', a selection of work by poets included in the first ten Forward Books of the 21st century is currently a set text for English Literature A Level (Edexcel). The poets represented include Patience Agbabi, Simon Armitage, John Burnside, Carol Ann Duffy, Helen Dunmore, UA Fanthorpe, Seamus Heaney, Andrew Motion, Daljit Nagra and Sean O'Brien. ==Details== The Forward Prizes for Poetry consist of three awards: *The Forward Prize for Best Collection, £10,000 *The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection, £5,000 *The Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in memory of Michael Donaghy, £1,000 The Prizes are run by the Forward Arts Foundation, which is also responsible for National Poetry Day. The executive director of the Forward Arts Foundation is Susannah Herbert.〔Forward Arts Foundation. Retrieved 04 July 2013〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Forward Prizes for Poetry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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