Award Winning Poetry Collections

Poetry wins prizes on both sides of the Atlantic and the two rarely meet on one page. The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry has run since 1922 and the T.S. Eliot Prize since 1993, and here they sit together with the poets the Nobel committee chose, so Pablo Neruda, Seamus Heaney and Louise Glück appear on the same list.

184 books drawn from 11 prize lists, newest first.

2026 Newbery Medal

All the Blues in the Sky by Renée Watson
2026 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Ars Poeticas by Juliana Spahr
2025 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

New and Selected Poems by Marie Howe
2025 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

Wellwater by Karen Solie
2024 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

Fierce Elegy by Peter Gizzi
2024 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Tripas: Poems by Brandon Som
2023 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

Self-Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant
2023 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007–2020 by Carl Phillips
2022 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

Sonnets for Albert by Anthony Joseph
2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell
2022 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss
2021 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

C+nto & Othered Poems by Joelle Taylor
2021 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
2020 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

How to Wash a Heart by Bhanu Kapil
2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Tradition by Jericho Brown
2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Wild Iris by Louise Glück
2019 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson
2019 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Be With by Forrest Gander
2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016 by Frank Bidart
2018 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan
2017 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Olio by Tyehimba Jess
2016 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

Jackself by Jacob Polley
2016 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Ozone Journal by Peter Balakian
2016 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Lyrics by Bob Dylan
2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Digest by Gregory Pardlo
2015 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe
2015 Newbery Medal

The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

3 Sections by Vijay Seshadri
2014 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

Fire Songs by David Harsent
2013 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

Parallax by Sinéad Morrissey
2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds
2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
2011 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

Black Cat Bone by John Burnside
2011 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan
2011 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Great Enigma by Tomas Tranströmer
2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Versed by Rae Armantrout
2010 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

White Egrets by Derek Walcott
2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Shadow of Sirius by W. S. Merwin
2009 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

The Water Table by Philip Gross
2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Failure by Philip Schultz
2008 Newbery Medal

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz
2008 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

Nigh-No-Place by Jen Hadfield
2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Time and Materials by Robert Hass
2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey
2007 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

The Drowned Book by Sean O'Brien
2006 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

District and Circle by Seamus Heaney
2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Late Wife by Claudia Emerson
2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser
2005 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy
2004 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

Reel by George Szirtes
2004 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Walking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright
2003 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

Landing Light by Don Paterson
2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon
2002 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

Dart by Alice Oswald
2002 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Practical Gods by Carl Dennis
2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Different Hours by Stephen Dunn
2001 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson
2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Repair by C. K. Williams
2000 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

The Weather in Japan by Michael Longley
1999 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

Billy's Rain by Hugo Williams
1999 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Blizzard of One by Mark Strand
1998 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
1998 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Black Zodiac by Charles Wright
1997 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller
1997 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

God's Gift to Women by Don Paterson
1996 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

Subhuman Redneck Poems by Les Murray
1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Dream of the Unified Field by Jorie Graham
1996 Nobel Prize in Literature

View with a Grain of Sand by Wisława Szymborska
1995 Nobel Prize in Literature

Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
1995 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

My Alexandria by Mark Doty
1995 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Simple Truth by Philip Levine
1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa
1994 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

The Annals of Chile by Paul Muldoon
1993 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

First Language by Ciaran Carson
1992 Nobel Prize in Literature

Omeros by Derek Walcott
1992 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Selected Poems by James Tate
1991 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Near Changes by Mona Van Duyn
1990 The Booker Prize

Possession by A. S. Byatt
1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic
1989 Newbery Medal

Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
1989 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur
1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems by William Meredith
1987 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove
1986 Pulitzer Prize for Biography

Louise Bogan: A Portrait by Elizabeth Frank
1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Flying Change by Henry Taylor
1985 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Yin by Carolyn Kizer
1984 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

American Primitive by Mary Oliver
1984 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Plague Column by Jaroslav Seifert
1983 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell
1982 Newbery Medal

A Visit to William Blake's Inn by Nancy Willard
1982 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
1981 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Morning of the Poem by James Schuyler
1980 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Selected Poems by Donald Justice
1979 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Now and Then by Robert Penn Warren
1979 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Axion Esti by Odysseus Elytis
1978 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Collected Poems by Howard Nemerov
1977 Nobel Prize in Literature

Destruction or Love by Vicente Aleixandre
1977 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Divine Comedies by James Merrill
1976 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery
1975 Nobel Prize in Literature

Cuttlefish Bones by Eugenio Montale
1975 National Book Award for Non-Fiction

The Life of Emily Dickinson by Richard B. Sewall
1975 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Turtle Island by Gary Snyder
1974 Nobel Prize in Literature

Aniara by Harry Martinson
1974 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Dolphin by Robert Lowell
1973 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Up Country by Maxine Kumin
1972 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Collected Poems by James Wright
1971 Pulitzer Prize for Biography

Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915–1938 by Lawrance Thompson
1971 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Carrier of Ladders by W. S. Merwin
1971 Nobel Prize in Literature

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
1970 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Untitled Subjects by Richard Howard
1969 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Of Being Numerous by George Oppen
1968 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht
1967 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Live or Die by Anne Sexton
1966 Nobel Prize in Literature

O the Chimneys by Nelly Sachs
1966 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Selected Poems by Richard Eberhart
1965 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

77 Dream Songs by John Berryman
1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

At the End of the Open Road by Louis Simpson
1964 Pulitzer Prize for Biography

John Keats by Walter Jackson Bate
1963 Nobel Prize in Literature

Mythistorema by Giorgos Seferis
1963 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Pictures from Brueghel by William Carlos Williams
1962 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Poems by Alan Dugan
1961 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley
1960 Nobel Prize in Literature

Anabasis by Saint-John Perse
1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Heart's Needle by W. D. Snodgrass
1959 Nobel Prize in Literature

And Suddenly It's Evening by Salvatore Quasimodo
1959 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Selected Poems 1928–1958 by Stanley Kunitz
1958 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Promises: Poems 1954–1956 by Robert Penn Warren
1957 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Things of This World by Richard Wilbur
1956 Best Books That Never Won a Prize

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
1956 Nobel Prize in Literature

Platero and I by Juan Ramón Jiménez
1956 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Poems: North & South - A Cold Spring by Elizabeth Bishop
1955 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens
1954 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Waking by Theodore Roethke
1953 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Collected Poems 1917–1952 by Archibald MacLeish
1952 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Collected Poems by Marianne Moore
1951 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Complete Poems by Carl Sandburg
1950 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks
1949 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Terror and Decorum by Peter Viereck
1948 Nobel Prize in Literature

Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
1948 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Age of Anxiety by W. H. Auden
1947 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Lord Weary's Castle by Robert Lowell
1946 Caldecott Medal

The Rooster Crows by Maud and Miska Petersham
1945 Nobel Prize in Literature

Desolation by Gabriela Mistral
1945 Caldecott Medal

Prayer for a Child by Elizabeth Orton Jones
1945 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

V-Letter and Other Poems by Karl Shapiro
1944 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Western Star by Stephen Vincent Benét
1943 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

A Witness Tree by Robert Frost
1942 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Dust Which Is God by William Rose Benét
1941 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Sunderland Capture by Leonard Bacon
1940 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Collected Poems by Mark Van Doren
1939 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Selected Poems by John Gould Fletcher
1938 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Cold Morning Sky by Marya Zaturenska
1937 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

A Further Range by Robert Frost
1936 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Strange Holiness by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
1935 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Bright Ambush by Audrey Wurdemann
1934 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Collected Verse by Robert Hillyer
1933 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Conquistador by Archibald MacLeish
1932 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Flowering Stone by George Dillon
1931 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Collected Poems by Robert Frost
1931 Nobel Prize in Literature

Fridolin's Songs by Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1930 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken
1929 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

John Brown's Body by Stephen Vincent Benét
1928 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Tristram by Edwin Arlington Robinson
1927 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Fiddler's Farewell by Leonora Speyer
1927 Pulitzer Prize for Biography

Whitman by Emory Holloway
1926 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

What's O'Clock by Amy Lowell
1925 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Man Who Died Twice by Edwin Arlington Robinson
1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes by Robert Frost
1923 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St. Vincent Millay
1923 Best Books That Never Won a Prize

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
1923 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Tower by William Butler Yeats
1922 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson
1919 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Cornhuskers by Carl Sandburg
1919 Nobel Prize in Literature

Olympian Spring by Carl Spitteler
1919 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Old Road to Paradise by Margaret Widdemer
1918 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Love Songs by Sara Teasdale
1913 Nobel Prize in Literature

Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
1906 Nobel Prize in Literature

Barbarian Odes by Giosuè Carducci
1904 Nobel Prize in Literature

Mirèio by Frédéric Mistral
1901 Nobel Prize in Literature

Stanzas and Poems by Sully Prudhomme
1855 Classic Books

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
1833 Classic Books

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
1667 Classic Books

Paradise Lost by John Milton

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