List of poetry awards

Major international awards

Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings

Griffin Poetry Prize (The international prize)

International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine (Open First Prize=£5000)

Montreal International Poetry Prize ($50,000 prize for one poem)

National Poetry Competition (International, First Prize=£5000)

Nobel Prize in Literature (Not exclusively for poetry)

Poetic Republic Poetry Prize (Anonymous peer review poetry competition)

Rhysling Award (For science-fiction poetry)

Pushcart Prize ("Best of the Small Presses")

Charles Causley Trust International Poetry Competition (First Prize=£2000)

Africa

Brunel University African Poetry Prize

Australia

Anne Elder Award

Christopher Brennan Award

C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry

Grace Leven Prize for Poetry

Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry

Judith Wright Prize

Judith Wright Calanthe Award

Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry

Mary Gilmore Prize

The Roland Robinson Literary Award

Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize

The Val Vallis Award

The W. B. Yeats Poetry Prize for Australia

Austria

Feldkircher Lyrikpreis

Canada

Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry

Archibald Lampman Award

Atlantic Poetry Prize

Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

Gerald Lampert Award – for the best volume of poetry by a new author

Griffin Poetry Prize – generous award for one Canadian and one foreign poet

Montreal International Poetry Prize – $50,000 prize for the best single poem

Pat Lowther Award – for the best volume of poetry written by a woman

Prix Alain-Grandbois

Chile

Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile

Governor General's Awards

English language:

Governor General's Award for English language poetry

Governor General's Award for English language poetry or drama

French language:

Governor General's Award for French language poetry

Governor General's Award for French language poetry or drama

Croatia

Tin Ujević Award for contributions to Croatian poetry

Dragutin Tadijanović Award for the poetry life achievement, granted by the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences (HAZU)

poeta oliveatus title, at the Poetry manifestation Croatia rediviva (ča-kaj-što) in Selca on the island of Brač

Germany

Wilhelm Busch Prize for satirical and humorous poetry

India

In India there are two literary (National)awards besides other poetry awards :

Saraswathi samman {Highest literary award}

Sahitya Akademi Award given by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters

Jnanpith Award

Ananda Purashkar

Kalidas Samman

Pampa Award

Rabindra Puraskar

Ireland

Irish Times Poetry Now Award

Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award

Korea

Kim Su-yông Contemporary Poetry Award

New Zealand

Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry

Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon, Laureate and New Generation Awards

New Zealand Poet Laureate

Slovenia

Jenko Award

KONS International Literary Award

Veronika Award

Vilenica Prize

Spanish (language)

Premio Adonais

Premio Cervantes

United Kingdom

Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize

Chancellor's Gold Medal

Christopher Tower Poetry Prizes

Cholmondeley Award

Costa Poetry Award, formerly the Whitbread Poetry award

Eric Gregory Award

Forward Prize

The Frogmore Poetry Prize

Gaisford Prize

Geoffrey Dearmer Award

Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine (Open and NHS-related awards)

Michael Marks Poetry Awards

National Poetry Competition

Newdigate prize

Poetic Republic Poetry Prize

Popescu Prize

Porson Prize

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

T. S. Eliot Prize

United States

$ Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize – awarded annually in memory of this celebrated poet, sponsored by the University of Utah Department of English and the University of Utah Press

$ Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize – for a first book of poetry

Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry – annual prize, administered by the Sewanee Review and the University of the South, awarded to a writer who has had a substantial and distinguished career

$ Alice James Award

Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship – given annually to a U.S.-born poet to spend one year outside North America in a country the recipient feels will most advance his or her work

$ Autumn House Press – poetry and fiction awards for full-length book manuscripts

$ Backwaters Press – annual prize awarded to book length manuscript selected by guest judge

Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry – awarded by the editors of Paris Review for the best poem published in the magazine over the course of the year

The Best American Poetry series – maximum of 75 poems published each year in the anthology series

Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry – offered by the Library of Congress for the best book of poetry published by a living U.S. author during the preceding two years

Bollingen Prize – offered by Yale University every two years to one or more living U.S. poets for the best collection published in that period, or for lifetime achievement in poetry

Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards – former series of annual anthologies (1948–1977) of poems selected as the best from each year's English-language magazines

$ Brittingham Prize in Poetry

Chelsea Award for Poetry – given by Chelsea magazine

$ Cider Press Review Book Award – given by the Cider Press Review

$ Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards offers $3,500 for the first prize and $2,000 for the second prize

Devins Award for Poetry

Donald Justice Poetry Prize – sponsored by the Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards at the West Chester University Poetry Center

Dwarf Stars Award – annual award presented by the Science Fiction Poetry Association to the author of the best horror, fantasy, or science fiction poem of ten lines or fewer published in the previous year.

$ Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry

Donna J. Stone National Literary Awards – sponsored by the Matthew J. Pascal Foundation and American Mothers, Inc.

Glascock Prize

Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award

Isabella Gardner Poetry Award – sponsored by BOA Editions

Kate Tufts Discovery Award – $10,000 awarded to a first time poet

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award – $100,000 award for poet in mid career

Lannan Literary Award for Poetry – comes with $150,000

Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry

Maurice English Poetry Award – awarded for a volume of poetry published when a poet is more than 50 years old

National Book Award for Poetry

National Book Critics Circle Award – given annually in poetry and in five other categories to promote the finest books and reviews published in English

National Poetry Series – offered by the National Poetry Series through five participating publishers for a collection of poetry

The New Criterion Poetry Prize – given by The New Criterion magazine

O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize – awarded by the Folger Shakespeare Library to a U.S. poet who has published at least one book within the last five years, has made important contributions as a teacher, and is committed to furthering the understanding of poetry

PEN Award for Poetry in Translation – honoring a poetry translation published in the preceding year

PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry – given biennially to an American poet whose distinguished and growing body of work to date represents a notable and accomplished presence in American literature

Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress

Poets' Prize – awarded annually for the best book of verse published by an American in the previous calendar year

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Rattle Poetry Prize – $5000 prize for one poem given every year by Rattle

Rhysling Award – two given out each year (one for a long poem, the other for a short poem), by the Science Fiction Poetry Association for the best science fiction, fantasy, or horror poems

Richard Wilbur Award

Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize – offered by the Poetry Foundation for a U.S. poet "whose accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition"

T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry – publication prize awarded annually by Truman State University for the best unpublished collection in English. A distinct prize with the same name is awarded in the United Kingdom

Willis Barnstone Translation Prize – annual prize for an outstanding translation of a poem from any language into English

Witter Bynner Fellowships – administered by the Library of Congress, the fellowships are sponsored by the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, an organization that provides grant support for poetry programs through nonprofit organizations. Fellows are chosen by the Poet Laureate, and are expected to participate in a poetry reading at the Library of Congress in October and to organize a poetry reading in their respective cities

Witter Bynner Poetry Prize – established by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1980 to support the work of a young poet

Yale Series of Younger Poets – offered by Yale University Press to a poet under the age of forty for a first volume of poetry

Awards given by the Academy of American Poets

Wallace Stevens Award – $100,000 to recognize outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry

Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets – $25,000 for distinguished poetic achievement

Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize – $25,000 for the best book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year

James Laughlin Award – $5,000 to recognize and support a poet's second book

Walt Whitman Award – first-book publication, $5,000, and a one-month residency at the Vermont Studio Center for an American who has not yet published a book of poetry

Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards – $10,000 book prize and $25,000 fellowship, awarded in alternating years to recognize outstanding translations into English of modern Italian poetry

Harold Morton Landon Translation Award – $1,000 for a published translation of poetry from any language into English

Awards given by the Poetry Society of America

Frost Medal

Shelley Memorial Award – since 1929, offered by the society to a poet living in the United States who is chosen on the basis of "genius and need"

Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award

Alice Fay di Castagnola Award

Norma Farber First Book Award

William Carlos Williams Award – offered by the society for the best book of poetry published by a small, non-profit, or university press

Awards given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters

American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals for Poetry – given every six years to honor the distinguished career of a poet; considered the highest honor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Arthur Rense Prize – in 1998, the $20,000 award was established to honor "an exceptional poet" once every third year

Michael Braude Award for Light Verse – $5,000 biennial award is given "for light verse written in English regardless of the country of origin of the writer"

Witter Bynner Poetry Prize – awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters from 1980 to 1993