First Prize: Jorie Graham To 2040 (Carcanet Press)
Second Prize: Zaffar Kunial England’s Green (Faber & Faber)
Third Prize: Holly Hopkins The English Summer (Penned in The Margins)
Best UK First Collection: Yvonne Reddick Burning Season (Bloodaxe Books)
Best International First Collection: Liza Katz Duncan Given (Autumn House Press)

The prize awards £5,000 (1st prize), £2,000 (2nd prize), and £1,000 (3rd prize). There’s also a £500 award for each of the Best First Collection UK and Best International First Collection. In addition, each of the winners will receive a commission from the AONB to create a poem based on their favourite landscape.

Jorie is the author of fifteen collections of poems. Her poetry has been widely translated and has been the recipient of numerous awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize, the Forward Prize (UK), the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the International Nonino Prize, and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress. She lives in Massachusetts and teaches at Harvard University.

Zaffar lives in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, and was born in Birmingham. His debut collection, Us, was shortlisted for a number of prizes, including the T. S. Eliot Prize. England’s Green, his latest collection, has been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Ondaatje Prize.

Holly grew up in Berkshire, grew up even more in London and now lives in Manchester. Her debut pamphlet, Soon Every House Will Have One, won the Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition and was the Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. Holly has been an assistant editor of The Rialto. She has received an Eric Gregory Award and a Hawthornden Fellowship and was shortlisted for the inaugural Women Poets’ Prize. Her poems featured in Carcanet New Poetries VIII and have been published in The Guardian, The Telegraph and TLS. Her debut collection, The English Summer, was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Seamus Heaney Prize. Work-in-progress which will form Holly’s second collection has been awarded the Northern Writers Award for Poetry.

Yvonne is an award-winning writer, editor, ecopoetry scholar and climber. She has received a Leadership Fellowship from the AHRC, the Poetry Society’s inaugural Peggy Poole Award, a Northern Writer’s Award and a Creative Futures Literary Award. Her work has appeared in The Guardian Review, Poetry Review and New Statesman, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC North West Tonight. She has published four pamphlets, including Translating Mountains (Seren 2017), winner of the Mslexia Women’s Pamphlet Competition, and Spikenard (Laureate’s Choice 2019), which was a poetry recommendation in the London Review of Books. Burning Season (Bloodaxe 2023) was her first book-length collection. Her other publications include Ted Hughes: Environmentalist and Ecopoet and Magma: The Anthropocene Issue (as editor). She is a book critic for the TLS and now lives in Manchester.

Liza is the author of Given (Autumn House Press 2023), winner of the Autumn House Press Rising Writer Award. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI, About Place, the Kenyon Review, Poem-a-Day, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. She has received support for her work from Poets & Writers, the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference, and the Tucson Festival of Books. Liza grew up in New Jersey and holds an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College. She teaches English as a Second Language in New Jersey public schools.