The Forward Prize for Best Collection (£10,000)
Shane McCrae – Cain Named the Animal
Kaveh Akbar – Pilgrim Bell
Kim Moore – All the Men I Never Married
Anthony Joseph – Sonnets for Albert
Helen Mort – The Illustrated Woman
The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection (£5,000)
Warsan Shire – Bless the Daughter
Stephanie Sy-Quia – Amnion
Mohammed El-Kurd – Rifqa
Padraig Regan – Some Integrity
Holly Hopkins – The English Summer
The Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (£1,000)
Nick Laird – 'Up Late'
Clare Pollard – 'Pollen'
Carl Phillips – 'Scattered Snows, to the North'
Cecelia Knapp – 'I'm Shouting I LOVED YOUR DAD at My Brother's Cat'
Louisa Campbell – 'Dog on a British Airways Airbus 319-100'
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