Forward prize for poetry 2006
Poet puts Heaney in shade by scooping £10,000 prize
Robin Robertson wins the Forward prize for poetry, against competition from Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney.
Fantasia on a Theme of James Wright by Sean O'Brien
There are miners still
In the underground rivers
Of West Moor and Palmersville.
Requiem for a Princess by John Hartley Williams
The Cheapjack by Jacob Polley
Blaenafon Blue Michael Arnold Williams
Heaney nominated for Forward poetry prize