Costa Book Awards — Poetry

The Kids by Hannah Lowe
2021 Costa Poetry
The Historians by Eavan Boland
2020 Costa Poetry
Flèche by Mary Jean Chan
2019 Costa Poetry
Assurances by J. O. Morgan
2018 Costa Poetry
Inside the Wave by Helen Dunmore
2017 Costa Poetry
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
2016 Costa Poetry
40 Sonnets by Don Paterson
2015 Costa Poetry
My Family and Other Superheroes by Jonathan Edwards
2014 Costa Poetry
Drysalter by Michael Symmons Roberts
2013 Costa Poetry
The Overhaul by Kathleen Jamie
2012 Costa Poetry
The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy
2011 Costa Poetry
Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott
2010 Costa Poetry
A Scattering by Christopher Reid
2009 Costa Poetry
The Broken Word by Adam Foulds
2008 Costa Poetry
Tilt by Jean Sprackland
2007 Costa Poetry
Letter to Patience by John Haynes
2006 Costa Poetry
Cold Calls by Christopher Logue
2005 Costa Poetry
Corpus by Michael Symmons Roberts
2004 Costa Poetry
Landing Light (poetry collection) by Don Paterson
2003 Costa Poetry
The Ice Age by Paul Farley
2002 Costa Poetry
Bunny by Selima Hill
2001 Costa Poetry
The Asylum Dance by John Burnside
2000 Costa Poetry
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
1999 Costa Poetry
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
1998 Costa Poetry
Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes
1997 Costa Poetry
The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney
1996 Costa Poetry
Gunpowder by Bernard O'Donoghue
1995 Costa Poetry
Out of Danger by James Fenton
1994 Costa Poetry
Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy
1993 Costa Poetry
The Gaze of the Gorgon by Tony Harrison
1992 Costa Poetry
Gorse Fires by Michael Longley
1991 Costa Poetry
Daddy, Daddy by Paul Durcan
1990 Costa Poetry
Shibboleth by Michael Donaghy
1989 Costa Poetry
The Automatic Oracle by Peter Porter
1988 Costa Poetry
The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney
1987 Costa Poetry
Stet by Peter Reading
1986 Costa Poetry
Elegies by Douglas Dunn
1985 Costa Poetry
Mercian Hymns by Geoffrey Hill
1971 Costa Poetry