BOOK AWARDS
Forward Prize for best collection 2007
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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 Drowned Book by Sean O'Brien, published by Picador. ISBN 9780330447621
Best First Collection - Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra, published by Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571231225
Shortlist — Best Collection (announced mid July)
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Domestic Violence | Eavan Boland | Carcanet | 9781857548594 |
| Gift Songs | John Burnside | Jonathan Cape | 9780224079976 |
| The Drowned Book | Sean O'Brien | Picador | 9780330447621 |
| Birds with a Broken Wing | Adam Thorpe | Jonathan Cape | 9780224079440 |
| The Harbour Beyond The Movie | Luke Kennard | Salt Publishing | 9781844713073 |
| Beasts of Nalunga | Jack Mapanje | Bloodaxe | 9781852247713 |
Shortlist — Best First Collection (announced mid July)
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Twenty Four Preludes and Fugues on Dimitri Shostakovich. | Joanna Boulter | Arc Publications | 9781904614340 |
| Galatea | Melanie Challenger | Salt Publishing | 9781844712908 |
| Look We Have Coming to Dover! | Daljit Nagra | Faber & Faber | 9780571231225 |
| Andraste's Hair | Eleanor Rees | Salt Publishing | 9781844713042 |
