Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband 2000 – Michael Longley, The Weather in Japan 1999 – Hugo Williams, Billy's Rain 1998 – Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters 1997 – Don Paterson, God's Gift to Women 1996 – Les Murray, Subhuman Redneck Poems 1995 – Mark Doty, My Alexandria 1994 – Paul Muldoon, The Annals of Chile 1993 – Ciarán Carson, First Language: Poems List of judges 2022 – Jean Sprackland, Hannah Lowe and Roger Robinson 2021 – Glyn Maxwell, Caroline Bird and Zaffar Kunial 2020 – Lavinia Greenlaw, Mona Arshi and Andrew McMillan 2019 — John Burnside, Sarah Howe and Nick Makoha 2018 — Clare Pollard, Sinéad Morrissey and Daljit Nagra 2017 — W. N. Herbert, James Lasdun and Helen Mort 2016 — Julia Copus, Ruth Padel and Alan Gillis 2015 – Kei Miller, Pascale Petit and Ahren Warner 2014 – Sean Borodale, Helen Dunmore and Fiona Sampson 2013 – Imtiaz Dharker, Ian Duhig and Vicki Feaver 2012 – Carol Ann Duffy, Michael Longley and David Morley 2011 – Gillian Clarke, Stephen Knight and Dennis O'Driscoll 2010 – Bernardine Evaristo, Anne Stevenson and Michael Symmons Roberts 2009 – Simon Armitage, Colette Bryce and Penelope Shuttle 2008 – Lavinia Greenlaw, Tobias Hill and Andrew Motion 2007 – Sujata Bhatt, W. N. Herbert and Peter Porter 2006 – Sophie Hannah, Gwyneth Lewis and Sean O'Brien 2005 – David Constantine, Kate Clanchy and Jane Draycott 2004 – Douglas Dunn, Paul Farley and Carol Rumens 2003 – David Harsent, Mimi Khalvati and George Szirtes 2002 – Michael Longley 2001 – John Burnside, Helen Dunmore and Maurice Riordan 2000 – Paul Muldoon Shortlists 2020s 2022 Quiet by Victoria Adukwei Bulley (Faber & Faber) Ephemeron by Fiona Benson (Cape Poetry) Wilder by Jemma Borg (Pavilion Poetry/Liverpool University Press) The Thirteenth Angel by Philip Gross (Bloodaxe) Sonnets for Albert by Anthony Joseph (Bloomsbury Poetry) England's Green by Zaffar Kunial (Faber & Faber) Slide by Mark Pajak (Cape Poetry) bandit country by James Conor Patterson (Picador Poetry) The Room Between Us by Denise Saul (Pavilion Poetry/Liverpool University Press) Manorism by Yomi Sode (Penguin Poetry) 2021 Eat or We Both Starve by Victoria Kennefick (Carcanet) Ransom by Michael Symmons Roberts (Jonathan Cape) Stones by Kevin Young (Jonathan Cape) Men Who Feed Pigeons by Selima Hill (Bloodaxe) The Kids by Hannah Lowe (Bloodaxe) All the Names Given by Raymond Antrobus (Picador) A Blood Condition by Kayo Chingonyi (Chatto & Windus)