1954 in Poetry - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

  • National Book Award for Poetry: Conrad Aiken, Collected Poems
  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Theodore Roethke: The Waking
  • King's Gold Medal for Poetry: Ralph Hodgson
  • Bollingen Prize: W. H. Auden
  • Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Louise Townsend Nicholl and Oliver St. John Gogarty
  • Canada: Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: The Metal and the Flower, P.K. Page

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