Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets
Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets are a set of British literary awards for poetry writing and publishing in pamphlet form. As of 2012, the awards are administered by Wordsworth Trust in association with the British Library and the Times Literary Supplement, and the financial support of the Michael Marks Charitable Trust. The trust was established in 1966 by the late Lord Marks, 2nd Baron of Broughton. Both awards carry a prize of £5,000.
The prize was created to show how effective pamphlets – defined by the award as a booklet of up to 36 pages – can be in introducing new poetry to readers. The Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney praised the prize's establishment as "inspired".
Winners and nominees
The award recognises an outstanding work of poetry published in pamphlet form in the UK.The following is a list of shortlisted pamphlets. Winners are listed in yellow, first in their year.
| Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Ref | Judges |
| 2009 | Elizabeth Burns | The Shortest Days | Galdragon Press |
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| 2009 | Polly Atkin | Bone Song | Aussteiger Publications | - | |
| 2009 | Siobhán Campbell | That Water Speaks in Tongues | Templar Poetry | - | |
| 2009 | Sarah Jackson | Milk | Pighog Press | - | |
| 2009 | Kate Potts | Whichever music | Tall Lighthouse | - | |
| 2009 | seekers of lice | quot | self-published | - | |
| 2010 | Selima Hill | Advice on Wearing Animal Prints | Flarestack Poets | ||
| 2010 | Tom Chivers | The Terrors | Nine Arches Press | - | |
| 2010 | David Hart | The Titanic Café closes its doors and hits the rocks | Nine Arches Press | - | |
| 2010 | Hugh McMillan | Devorgilla’s Bridge | Roncadora Press | - | |
| 2010 | Richard Moorhead | The Reluctant Vegetarian | Oystercatcher Press | - | |
| 2010 | Nii Ayikwei Parkes | ballast: a remix | Tall Lighthouse | - | |
| 2011 | James McGonigall | Cloud Pibroch | Mariscat | ||
| 2011 | Neil Addison | Apocapulco | Salt Publishing | - | |
| 2011 | Simon Armitage | The Motorway Service Station as a Destination in its Own Right | Smith/Doorstop | - | |
| 2011 | Sean Burn | mo thunder | The Knives, Forks and Spoons Press | - | |
| 2011 | Olive Broderick | Darkhaired | Templar Poetry | - | |
| 2011 | Ralph Hawkins | Happy Whale Fat Smile | Oystercatcher Press | - | |
| 2012 | Róisín Tierney | Dream Endings | Rack Press | ||
| 2012 | Paul Bentley | Largo | Smith/Doorstop | - | |
| 2012 | Douglas Dunn | Invisible Ink | Mariscat Press | - | |
| 2012 | Charlotte Gann | The Long Woman | Pighog Press | - | |
| 2012 | Maitreyabandhu | The Bond | Smith/Doorstop | - | |
| 2013 | David Clarke | Gaud | Flarestack Poets | ||
| 2013 | Kim Lasky | Petrol Cyan Electric | Smith/Doorstop | - | |
| 2013 | Kim Moore | If We Could Speak Like Wolves | Smith/Doorstop | - | |
| 2013 | Ben Parker | The Escape Artists | Tall Lighthouse | - | |
| 2013 | Neil Rollinson | Talking Dead | Aussteiger Publications | - | |
| 2013 | Chrissy Williams | Flying into the Bear | HappenStance Press | - | |
| 2014 | Laura Scott | What I Saw | The Rialto | ||
| 2014 | Christine de Luca | Dat Trickster Sun | Mariscat Press | - | |
| 2014 | Mimi Khalvati | Earthshine | Smith Doorstop | - | |
| 2014 | Ian McMillan | Jazz Peas | Smith/Doorstop Press | - | |
| 2014 | Richard Moorhead | The Word Museum | Flarestack Poets | - | |
| 2014 | Samantha Wynne-Rhyderrch | Lime and Winter | Rack Press | - | |
| 2015 | Gill McEvoy | The First Telling | HappenStance Press | ||
| 2015 | Alan Jenkins | Clutag Five Poems Series No. 2 | Clutag Press | - | |
| 2015 | Anja Konig | Advice for an Only Child | flipped eye publishing | - | |
| 2015 | Peter Riley | The Ascent of Kinder Scout | Longbarrow Press | - | |
| 2015 | David Tait | Three Dragon Day | Smith/Doorstop Press | - |
Michael Marks Publishers' Award
The following is a list of shortlisted publishers. Winners are listed in yellow, first in their year.
| Year | Publisher | Ref | Judges |
| 2009 | Oystercatcher Press |
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| 2009 | HappenStance Press | - | |
| 2009 | Tall Lighthouse | - | |
| 2009 | Templar Poetry | - | |
| 2010 | HappenStance Press | ||
| 2010 | Oystercatcher Press | - | |
| 2010 | Templar Poetry | - | |
| 2010 | Veer Books | - | |
| 2011 | Crater Press | ||
| 2011 | Kater Murr's Press | - | |
| 2011 | The Knives, Forks and Spoons Press | - | |
| 2011 | Mariscat Press | - | |
| 2011 | Roncadora Press | - | |
| 2012 | Smith/Doorstop | ||
| 2012 | Donut Press | - | |
| 2012 | Pighog Press | - | |
| 2012 | Rack Press | - | |
| 2013 | Flarestack Poets | ||
| 2013 | Mariscat Press | - | |
| 2013 | Rack Press | - | |
| 2013 | Pighog Press | - | |
| 2013 | Shearsman Books | - | |
| 2014 | Rack Press | ||
| 2014 | Emma Press | - | |
| 2014 | flipped eye publishing | - | |
| 2014 | Smith/Doorstop Press | - | |
| 2014 | Shearsman Books | - | |
| 2015 | Mariscat Press | ||
| 2015 | Eyewear Publishing | - | |
| 2015 | Smith Doorstop | - | |
| 2015 | The Emma Press | - |