Best Collection

Victoria CHANG : With My Back to the World
Jason ALLEN-PAISANT : Self Portrait as Othello
Kim MOORE : All the Men I Never Married
Luke KENNARD :  Notes on the Sonnets 
Caroline BIRD : The Air Year
Fiona BENSON : Vertigo and Ghost
Danez SMITH :  Don't Call Us Dead
Sinéad MORRISSEY : On Balance
Vahni CAPILDEO : Measures of Expatriation
Claudia RANKINE : Citizen: An American Lyric
Kei MILLER : The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion
Michael SYMMONS ROBERTS : Drysalter
Jorie GRAHAM : Place
John BURNSIDE : Black Cat Bone
Seamus HEANEY : Human Chain
Don PATERSON : Rain
Mick IMLAH : The Lost Leader
Sean O'BRIEN : The Drowned Book
Robin ROBERSTSON : Swithering
David HARSENT : Legion
Kathleen JAMIE : The Tree House
Claran CARSON : Breaking News
Peter PORTER : Max is Missing
Sean O'BRIEN : Downriver
Michael DONAGHY : Conjure
Jo SHAPCOTT : My Life Asleep
Ted HUGHES :  Birthday Letters
Jamie McKENDRICK : The Marble Fly
John FULLER : Stones and Fires
Sean O'BRIEN : Ghost Train
Alan JENKINS : Harm
Carol Ann DUFFY : Mean Time
Thom GUNN : The Man with Night Sweats


Best First Collection

Marjorie LOTFI : The Wrong Person to Ask
Momtaza MEHRI : Bas Diaspora Poem
Stephanie SY-QUIA : Amnion
Caleb FEMI : Poor
Will HARRIS : RENDANG
Stephen SEXTON : If All the World and Love Were Young
Phoebe POWER : Shrines of Upper Austria
Ocean VUONG : Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Tiphanie YANIQUE : Wife
Mona ARSHI : Small Hands
Liz BERRY : Black Country
Emily BERRY : Dear Boy
Sam RIVIERE : 81 Austerities
Rachael BOAST : Sidereal
Hilary MENOS : Berg
Emma JONES : The Striped World
Kathryn SIMMONDS : Sunday at the Skin Launderette
Daljit NAGRA : Look We Have Coming to Dover!
Tishani DOSHI : Countries of the Body
Helen FARISH : Intimates
Leontia FLYNN : These Days
A. B. JACKSON : Fire Stations
Tom FRENCH : Touching the Bones
John STAMMERS : The Panoramic Lounge Bar
Andrew WATERHOUSE : In
Nick DRAKE : The Man in the White Suit
Paul FARLEY : The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You
Robin ROBERTSON : A Painted Field
Kate CLANCHY : Slattern
Jane DURAN : Breathe Now, Breathe
Kwane DAWES : Progeny of Air
Don PATERSON : Nil Nil
Simon ARMIRAGE : Kid