Forward Arts Foundation


				Forward Arts Foundation Poetry

The Forward Poetry prizes were created in 1991 to bring contemporary poetry to a wider audience. Known as the 'bardic booker', this is the UK's most valuable annual poetry competition as well as the only major awards that honour both established and up-and-coming poets.

Launched in 1994, National Poetry Day has become an established fixture on the cultural calendar. It celebrates and promotes poetry all over Britain making it more accessible to all.

Look out for a wide variety events, from recitals in unusual places – at work, on station platforms, on the bus – to competitions and festivals across the country. Supported by the BBC, there's also a range of popular programming on television and radio.

from the Poetry Society's website


	For annual anthologies of the best shortlisted poems, and Poems of the Decade, featuring 127 poets from ten years of the Forward Poetry Prize, visit Faber and Faber. The Forward anthologies include poems from each of the shortlisted collections and the five best single poems alongside poems that are highly recommended by the judges, from the submissions they read, including work by Colette Bryce, Michael Rosen, Jackie Kay, Carol Ann Duffy, Derek Walcott, Patrick McGuinness, R F Langley, Michael Mackmin, Esther Morgan, Peter Porter, John Hartley Williams, Geoffrey Hill, Julia Darling, Mazen Makkouk, Glyn Maxwell, Conor O'Callaghan, Sheenagh Pugh, Fiona Sampson, Peter Sirr, George Szirtes, Gerard Woodward, Anna Wigley, Sally Read, Anne Rouse and Tamar Yoseloff.'