BOOK AWARDS
Forward Prize for best collection 2008
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Created to bring contemporary poetry to a wider audience and sponsored by the Forward Arts Foundation as part of National Poetry Day, The Forward Prize for Best Collection is the UK's richest annual poetry award. The winner receives a £10,000 prize (with £5000 prizes for best first collection and £1000 for best single poem).
Winners (announced October)
Best Collection - The Lost Leader by Mick Imlah, published by Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571243075
Best First Collection - Sunday at the Skin Launderette by Kathryn Simmonds, published by Seren. ISBN 9781854114617
Shortlist — Best Collection (announced mid July)
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Crocodiles & Obelisks | Jamie McKendrick | Faber & Faber | 9780571238231 |
| Pure Lizard | Sujata Bhatt | Carcanet | 9781857548334 |
| The Lost Leader | Mick Imlah | Faber & Faber | 9780571243075 |
| Another Country | Jane Griffiths | Bloodaxe | 9781852247942 |
| Nigh-No-Place | Jane Hadfield | Bloodaxe | 9781852247935 |
| Lip | Catherine Smith | Smith/Doorstop | 9781902382890 |
Shortlist — Best First Collection (announced mid July)
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Los Alamos Mon Amour | Simon Barraclough | Salt | 9781844713158 |
| Fear of Thunder | Andrew Forster | Flambard | 9781873226940 |
| Public Dream | Frances Leviston | Picador | 9780330440547 |
| The Night Trotsky Came to Stay | Allison McVety | Smith/Doorstop | 9781902382906 |
| Hidden River | Stephanie Norgate | Bloodaxe | 9781852247966 |
| Sunday at the Skin Launderette | Kathyrn Simmonds | Seren | 9781854114617 |
