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The Costa Book Award for best book of Poetry can be found below along with a list of all previous winners. We also have links to the winners of the other Costa Book Awards, and links to dozens of other book awards featured on Happy Dead Trees. The Costa Book Awards are given for the best works of fiction and nonfiction written by residents of Great Britain.
The latest winner of the Costa Book Award for Poetry 2008 - The Broken Word by Adam Foulds (2009 Award will be announced early 2010)
All winners of the Costa Book Award for Best Book of Poetry 1971 - Mercian Hymns by Geoffrey Hill
1985 - Elegies by Douglas Dunn
1986 - Stet by Peter Reading
1987 - The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney
1988 - The Automatic Oracle by Peter Porter
1989 - Shibboleth by Michael Donaghy
1990 - Daddy, Daddy by Paul Durcan
1991 - Gorse Fires by Michael Longley
1992 - The Gaze of the Gorgon by Tony Harrison
1993 - Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy
1994 - Out of Danger by James Fenton
1995 - Gunpowder by Bernard O'Donoghue
1996 - The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney
1997 - Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes
1998 - Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
1999 - Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
2000 - The Asylum Dance by John Burnside
2001 - Bunny by Selima Hill
2002 - The Ice Age by Paul Farley
2003 - Landing Light by Don Paterson
2004 - Corpus by Michael Simmons Roberts
2005 - Cold Calls by Christopher Logue
2006 - Letter to Patience by John Haynes
2007 - Tilt by Jean Sprackland
2008 - The Broken Word by Adam Foulds
2009 - Will be announced early 2010
(Please visit our Book Awards Index for a complete list of all Book Awards on Happy Dead Trees.)
Costa Book Award for Best Book of the Year > > >
The Official Costa Book Award Website
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