BOOK AWARDS
Forward Prize for best collection 2009
http://www.forwardartsfoundation.org
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 - Rain by Don Paterson, published by Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571249572
Best First Collection - The Striped World by Emma Jones, published by Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571245383
Shortlist — Best Collection (announced mid July)
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Hide Now | Glyn Maxwell | Picador | 9780330456241 |
| One Secret Thing | Sharon Olds | Jonathan Cape | 9780224087841 |
| Rain | Don Paterson | Faber & Faber | 9780571249572 |
| Better Than God | Peter Porter | Picador | 9780330460675 |
| A Scattering | Christopher Reid | Areté Ltd | 9780955455360 |
| West End Final | Hugo Williams | Faber & Faber | 9780571245932 |
Shortlist — Best First Collection (announced mid July)
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| The Missing | Sian Hughes | Salt | 9781844714988 |
| The Striped World | Emma Jones | Faber & Faber | 9780571245383 |
| Moonrise | Meirion Jordan | Seren | 9781854114815 |
| Furniture | Lorraine Mariner | Picador | 9780330458252 |
| Natural Mechanical | J.O. Morgan | CB Editions | 9780955728594 |
| Halflife | Meghan O'Rourke | WW Norton | 9780393333176 |
