Year |
Theme |
First prize |
Second prize |
Third prize |
Runners-up |
Guest Judges |
2001 |
Blue |
Rebecca Dudley |
Mairi Brewis |
Felicity Marks |
Eve Blair, Swithun Cooper, Charlotte Dickens, Isabella Mead |
Andrew Motion and Paul Muldoon |
2002 |
Floods |
Anna Lewis |
Dhruv Sookhoo |
Thom Glover |
Christopher Edwards, Kezia Gaitskell, Holly Patterson |
Kathleen Jamie and Ruth Padel |
2003 |
Passport |
Aruna Nair |
Wing Ying Chow |
Hannah Briggs |
James Williams, Tim Smith-Laing, Sarah Henderson |
Lavinia Greenlaw and Anthony Thwaite |
2004 |
Early Morning |
Katherine Hindley |
Nancy Freeman |
Laura Tisdale |
Caroline Bird, Joanna Moorman, Helen Mort |
Frank Ormsby and Jon Stallworthy |
2005 |
Gravity |
Eley Williams |
Craig Farrell |
Miranda Cichy |
Francesca Beasley, Rebecca Hawkes, Shin Woo Kang |
Gillian Clarke and Philip Pullman |
2006 |
A Building |
Colette Sensier |
Alice Malin |
Alice Alexandre |
David Devanny, Charlotte Geater, Julia Rampen |
Mark Ford and Carol Rumens |
2007 |
Flight |
Charlotte Runcie |
Annie Katchinska |
Sophie Mackintosh |
Alice Howlett, Laura Marsh, Rees Arnott Davies |
Jo Shapcott and Francine Stock |
2008 |
Change |
Emily Middleton |
Ashley McMullin |
Nina Bahadur |
Richard O’Brien, Charlotte Geater, Amelia Penny, Anna Savory |
Simon Armitage and Alan Jenkins |
2009 |
Doubt |
Timothy Carson |
Iona Twiston-Davies |
Paul Merchant |
Charlotte Turner, Sophie Stephenson-Wright, Emma Jourdan, Bethany Aitman |
Jane Draycott and Daljit Nagra |
2010 |
Promises |
Emily Harrison |
Katie Woods |
Megan Owens |
Jamie Sutherland, Julia Goroszeniuk, Hugo Havranek |
Stephen Romer and Michael Schmidt |
2011 |
Simplicity |
Elizabeth Johnson |
Jack Westmore |
Abigail Richards |
James Browning, Thomas Fraser, Molly Underwood |
Frances Leviston and David Morley |
2012 |
Voyages |
Sarah Fletcher |
Bethan Smith |
Millie Guille |
Hannah Tran, Lucy Hely-Hutchinson, Jack Whitehead |
Don Paterson and Christopher Reid |
2013 |
The Details |
Azfa Ali |
Sarah Fletcher |
Erin Tunney |
Kathryn Cussons, Luke van den Barselaar, Eva Wallace |
Carrie Etter and Bernard O'Donoghue |
2014 |
News |
Dominic Hand |
Sam Buckton |
Masha Voyles |
Alexander Shaw, Charlie Holmes, Jessica Matthews, Phoebe Stuckes |
Olivia McCannon and Kei Miller |
2015 |
Cells |
Isla Anderson |
Max Thomas |
Lewis Harrington |
Jeremiah Ovenden, Matt Ward, Andrew Wells |
Ian McMillan and Helen Mort |
2016 |
Wonder |
Ashani Lewis |
Safah Ahmed |
Sophia West |
Natasha Blinder, Ed Pryor, Grace Fraser |
Alan Gillis and Katherine Rundell |
2017 |
Stone |
Ella Standage |
Annie Fan |
Rachel Oyawale |
Freya Gray Stone, Flora Barber, Sofia Al-Hussaini |
Vahni Capildeo and Sarah Howe |
2018 |
Secrets' |
Taraneh Peryie |
Lucy Thynne |
Robbi Sher |
Ziqi Yan, Miranda Green, Annie Fan |
John Fuller and Christopher Reid |
2019 |
Underwater |
Lucy Prescott |
Lucy Thynne |
Joseph Harrison |
Isobel Falk, Anjali Mulcock, Flora Rugman |
Angela Leighton and Vidyan Ravinthiran |
2020 |
Trees |
Nadia Lines |
Fiyinfoluwa Timothy Oladipo |
Ahana Banerji |
Joyce Chen, Toby Morrison, Zara Meadows, Sabrina Coghlan-Jasiewicz |
A.E. Stallings and Rebecca Watts |
2021 |
The Key |
Amy Beverley |
Victoria Fletcher |
Ayra Ahmad |
Naz Kaynakcioglu, Skye Linforth, Em Power |
Kwame Dawes and Elise Paschen |
2022 |
Dream |
TBC |
TBC |
TBC |
TBC |
Jane Griffiths and John Clegg |