Winners
- 2012 - Patricia McCarthy
- 2011 - Allison McVety: 'To the Lighthouse'
- 2010 - Paul Adrian: 'Robin In Flight'
- 2009 - Helen Dunmore: 'The Malarkey'
- 2008 - Christopher James: 'Farewell to the Earth'
- 2007 - Sinéad Morrissey: 'Through the Square Window'
- 2006 - Mike Barlow: 'The Third Wife'
- 2005 - Melanie Drane: 'The Year the Rice-Crop Failed'
- 2004 - Jon Sait: 'Homeland'
- 2003 - Colette Bryce: 'The Full Indian Rope Trick'
- 2002 - Julia Copus: 'Breaking the Rule'
- 2001 - Beatrice Garland: 'undressing'
- 2000 - Ian Duhig: 'The Lammas Hireling'
- 1999 - Simon Rae: 'Believed'
- 1998 - Caroline Carver: 'horse underwater'
- 1997 - Neil Rollinson: 'Constellations'
- 1996 - Ruth Padel: 'Icicles Round a Tree in Dumfriesshire'
- 1995 - James Harpur: 'The Frame of Furnace Light'
- 1994 - David Hart: 'The Silkies'
- 1993 - Sam Gardiner: 'Protestant Windows'
- 1992 - Stephen Knight: 'The Mermaid Tank'
- 1991 - Jo Shapcott: 'Phrase Book' and John Levett: 'A Shrunken Head'
- 1990 - Nicky Rice: 'Room Service'
- 1989 - William Scammell: 'A World Elsewhere'
- 1988 - Martin Reed: 'The Widow's Dream'
- 1987 - Ian Duhig: 'Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen'
- 1986 - Carole Satyamurti: 'Between the Lines'
- 1985 - Jo Shapcott: 'The Surrealists' Summer Convention Came to Our City'
- 1984 - Tony Curtis: 'The Death of Richard Beattie-Seaman in Belgian Grand Prix, 1939'
- 1983 - Carol Ann Duffy: 'Whoever She Was'
- 1982 - Philip Gross: 'The Ice Factory'
- 1981 - James Berry: 'Fantasy of an African Boy'
- 1980 - Tony Harrison: 'Timer'
- 1979 - Medbh McGuckian: 'The Flitting'
- 1978 - Michael Hulse: 'Dole Queue'
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