Thom Gunn Award

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The Thom Gunn Award is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle to honour works of gay male poetry. First presented in 2001 as the Triangle Award for Gay Poetry, the award was renamed in memory of American poet Thom Gunn, the award's first winner, following his death in 2004.

Winners

2001 — Thom Gunn, Boss Cupid

2002 — Mark Doty, Source

2003 — Greg Hewett, Red Suburb

2004 — Brian Teare, The Room Where I Was Born

2005 — Carl Phillips, The Rest of Love

2006 — Richard Siken, Crush

2007 — Justin Chin, Gutted

2008 — Steve Fellner, Blind Date with Cavafy and Daniel Hall, Under Sleep

2009 — Ely Shipley, Boy with Flower

2010 — Ronaldo V. Wilson, Poems of the Black Object

2011 — Michael Walsh, The Dirt Riddles

2012 — Henri Cole, Touch

2013 — Richard Blanco, Looking for the Gulf Motel

2014 — Charlie Bondhus, All the Heat We Could Carry

2015 — Jericho Brown, The New Testament

2016 — Rick Barot, Chord

References

Thom Gunn Award Wikipedia

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