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The Poetry Now Award is an annual literary prize presented for the best single volume of poetry by an Irish poet. The €5,000 award was first given in 2005 (reduced to €2,500 in 2013) and is presented during annual Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown poetry festivals. From 2005 to 2011, it was bestowed during the Poetry Now international poetry festival (the latter event was inaugurated in 1996) which was held in March or April each year. In 2012 and 2013, the award was given during the Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival, in September ("dlr" stands for "Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown"). The award is sponsored by The Irish Times newspaper.
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2016
Winner: Caitríona O’Reilly, for Geis
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2015
Winner: Theo Dorgan, for Nine Bright Shiners
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2014
Winner: Sinéad Morrissey, for Parallax
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2013
Winner: Dennis O'Driscoll, for Dear Life, awarded posthumously (he died in December 2012).
Shortlist:
Judges: Mary O'Donnell (poet and novelist), Peter Sirr (writer, editor, translator, and former winner), and Ruth Webster (bookseller).
2012
Winner: Michael Longley, for A Hundred Doors.
Shortlist:
Judges: Gerald Dawe, James Harpur, and Mary Shine Thompson (all poets).
2011
Winner: Seamus Heaney, for Human Chain.
Shortlist:
Judges: Brian Lynch (poet, novelist, and screenwriter), Leanne O'Sullivan (poet), and Borbála Faragó (lecturer and critic).
2010
Winner: Sinéad Morrissey, for Through the Square Window.
Shortlist:
Judges: John F. Deane, Alan Gillis, and Maria Johnston.
2009
Winner: Derek Mahon, for Life on Earth.
Shortlist:
Judges: Kit Fryatt, Sean O'Brien, and Joseph Woods.
2008
Winner: Harry Clifton, for Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks 1994–2004.
Shortlist:
Judges: Philip Coleman, Sasha Dugdale, and William Wall.
2007
Winner: Seamus Heaney, for District and Circle.
Shortlist:
Judges: Eileen Battersby, Niall MacMonagle, and Maurice Riordan.
2006
Winner: Derek Mahon, for Harbour Lights.
Shortlist:
Judges: Patrick Crotty, Gerard Fanning, and Fiona Sampson.
2005
Winner: Dorothy Molloy, for Hare Soup, awarded posthumously (she died in January 2004) for her début collection.
Shortlist:
Judges: Simon Armitage, Selina Guinness, and Colm Tóibín.