Year |
Winner |
Poem |
Winner |
Essay |
1998 |
Rukmini Maria Callimachi |
"The Anatomy of Wildflowers" |
Sarah Wootton |
"Keats in Early Pre-Raphaelite Art" |
1999 |
Cate Parish |
"Ode to Someone in the Pool" |
James Burton |
"Keats and Coldness" |
2000 |
Antony Nichols |
"Graveyard Shift" |
Helena Nelson |
"Wherefore all this Wormy Circumstance" |
2001 |
Robert Saxton |
"The Nightingale Broadcasts" |
Toby Venables |
"The Lost Traveller" |
2002 |
Jane Draycott |
"The Night Tree" |
Joe Francis |
"Doubting the Mountain: an Approach to Mont Blanc" |
2003 |
Leonie Rushforth |
"Bearings" |
Stephen Burley |
"Shelley, the United Irishman and the Illuminati" |
2004 |
Isobel Lusted |
"Soul with White Wings" |
Porscha Fermanis |
"Stadial Theory, Robertson’s History of America, and Hyperion" |
2005 |
Edmund Cusick |
"Speaking in Tongues" |
David Taylor |
"Prometheus Unbound" |
2006 |
Martin McRitchie |
"The Experiment" |
Alison Pearce |
"Magnificent Mutilations" |
2007 |
Richard Marggraf Turley[1][2] |
"Elisions" |
Adam Gyngell |
"Ye Elemental Genii" |
2008 |
John Gohorry |
"Lost" |
Susan Miller |
"Hellenic and Scientific Influences in P.B. Shelley’s Medusa" |
2009 |
Maitreyabandhu[3] |
"The Small Boy and the Mouse" |
Jillian Hess |
“This Living Hand: Commonplacing Keats" |
2010 |
Simon Armitage[4] |
"The Present" |
Andrew Lacey |
"Wings of Poesy: Keats's Birds" |
2011 |
Pat Borthwick |
"Lord Leighton brings Arabia to Holland Park" |
Priyanka Soni |
"Natura Naturata: Shelley's Philosophy of the Mind in Creation" |
2012 |
Nick MacKinnon[5][6] |
"Terrier in rape" |
Ruth Scobie |
"Mary Shelley’s Monstrous Explorers" |
2013 |
Patrick Cotter[7] |
"Madra" |
Eleanor Fitzsimons |
"The Shelleys in Ireland: passion masquerading as insight." |
2016 |
Will Kemp[8] |
"Driving to Work at 5am Listening to Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" |
Michael Allen[8] |
"A Distant Idea of Proximity" |
2017[9] |
Cahal Dallat |
"Giant" |
Hester Styles Vickery |
"Keats and Consumption " |
2018[10] |
Laurinda Lind |
"Conscientious Objector " |
Tara Lee |
"Philosophic numbers smooth " |
2019[11] |
Leo Boix |
"Unholy Family" |
Joseph Begley |
"The Mind is its Own Place: Torquato Tasso and Romantic Heroism" |
2020[12] |
Pascale Petit |
"Indian Paradise Flycatcher" |
Rosie Whitcombe |
"Connection, Consolation, and the Power of Distance in the Letters of John Keats " |