Raymond Antrobus: 'When my dad read me a story I'd feel it through the vibrations in his body'
The winner of the Ted Hughes award on the poetry collections that influenced him and how George Orwell made him realise he needed to travel
March 2019
Deaf poet Raymond Antrobus wins Ted Hughes prize
British Jamaican’s debut collection challenges Hughes’s description of deaf children
April 2018
Speaking out: Ted Hughes winner Jay Bernard on exploring the New Cross fire in a one-off performance
When Bernard won the top poetry gong last week, it was a validation for performance poetry – and for the poet’s inquiry into the 1981 fire, told in a constantly evolving poem
March 2018
Jay Bernard’s ‘personal and brave’ poetry wins Ted Hughes award
Surge: Side A, an intimate multimedia exploration of 1981 New Cross fire, wins £5,000 prize
June 2017
A life in ...
Hollie McNish: the politics and poetry of boyfriends, babies and breastfeeding
The Ted Hughes prize winner explains why she does not wish to be squeezed into a ‘performance poet’ box and why you can love hip-hop and Paradise Lost
March 2017
Hollie McNish's 'funny and serious' poetry wins Ted Hughes prize
YouTube star’s collection Nobody Told Me, a verse memoir from ‘the frontline of motherhood’, secures prestigious £5,000 honour
March 2013
Kate Tempest wins Ted Hughes poetry prize for 'spoken story'
Young poet was recognised for Brand New Ancients, which reincarnates the gods of old in members of two London families
March 2012
Lavinia Greenlaw wins Ted Hughes award 2011 for new work in poetry
Greenlaw's winning sound installation, Audio Obscura, movingly captures the spirit of arrival and departure by train
July 2009
Carol Ann Duffy launches Ted Hughes award
Poet laureate uses stipend to fund prize rewarding 'most exciting' contribution to poetry in all its forms
