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Commonwealth Poetry Prize
The Commonwealth Poetry Prize was an annual poetry prize established in 1972, for a first published book of English poetry from a country other than the United Kingdom. It was initially administered jointly by the Commonwealth Institute and the National Book League.
In 1985 the prize received sponsorship from British Airways. £11,000 prize money was provided for the prize, which was advertised as "the world's most comprehensive award for poetry".
Poems by 35 winners of the prize, each introduced with a brief biographical note, were collected in a 1987 anthology, Under another Sky.
The prize was discontinued in 1987, and a Commonwealth Writers Prize established in its place.
Commonwealth prize winners
| Year | Winners |
|---|---|
| 1972 | Chinua Achebe, Beware Soul Brother (1971) |
| George McWhirter, Catalan Poems (1971) | |
| Commended: Richard Ntiru, David Mitchell | |
| 1973 | Wayne Brown, On the Coast (1972) |
| 1974 | Dennis Scott, Uncle Time (1973) |
| 1975 | |
| 1976 | Michael Jackson, Latitudes of Exile: Poems 1965–1975 (1976) |
| Runners-up: Peter Kocan, The Other Side of the Fence co-runner-up (1976) Robin Thurston 'Believed Dangerous - 58 Poems' 1976 published by Queensland University Press. | |
| 1977 | Arun Kolatkar, Jejuri (1976) |
| Runner-up: R. Parthasarathy, Rough Passage (1977) | |
| 1978 | Timoshenko Aslanides |
| 1979 | Brian Turner, Ladders of Rain (1978) |
| Gabriel Okra | |
| 1980 | Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Crossing the Peninsula (1980) |
| Audrey Longbottom, Relatives and Reliques (1979) | |
| 1981 | Philip Salom, The Silent Piano (1980) |
| 1982 | Peter Goldsworthy, Readings from Ecclesiastes: Poems (1982) |
| 1983 | Grace Nichols, I is a Long-Memoried Woman (1983) |
| 1984 | David Dabydeen, Slave Song (1984) |
| Runner-up: Syd Harrex, Atlantis and other Islands. | |
| 1985 | Lauris Edmond, Selected Poems (1984) |
| Regional Prizes: Vikram Seth (Asia), Timothy Holmes, Michael Longley, Kobena Eyi Acquah, Gary Geddes | |
| 1986 | Lorna Goodison, I am Becoming My Mother (1986) |
| Regional Prizes: Anne Michaels (Americas), Iain Chrichton Smith | |
| 1987 | Philip Salom, Sky Poems (1986) |
| Regional Prizes: Tanure Ojaide (Africa) |
References
References
- [[Alastair Niven]], 'The Commonwealth poetry prize', in Richard Maltby and Peter Quartermaine, eds., ''The Commonwealth: a common culture'', pp.53-62.
- (1985). "The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature". Oxford University Press.
- [https://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=5833 News & Notes], ''[[PN Review]]'' 44, July–August 1985. Accessed 1 September 2020.
- [[Alastair Niven]], ed., ''Under another sky: an anthology of Commonwealth Poetry Prize winners''. Manchester, England: Carcanet, 1987.
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