The Forward Prizes for Poetry 2015

See the nation's most talked-about poetry prizes awarded live on stage.

Over the course of the evening, enjoy readings from ten stunning new collections, chosen by the Forward judges from the full range of poetry published throughout the year.

The jury is chaired by writer and performer A L Kennedy, who compères this evening of readings and prizes.

This year's shortlist is:

The Forward Prize for Best Collection (£10,000)-

Ciaran Carson – From Elsewhere (The Gallery Press)
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin – The Boys of Bluehill (The Gallery Press)
Paul Muldoon – One Thousand Things Worth Knowing (Faber & Faber)
Claudia Rankine – Citizen: An American Lyric (Penguin Books)
Peter Riley – Due North (Shearsman)

The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection (£5,000)-

Mona Arshi – Small Hands (Liverpool University Press, Pavilion Poetry)
Sarah Howe – Loop of Jade (Chatto & Windus)
Andrew McMillan – physical (Cape Poetry)
Matthew Siegel – Blood Work (CB Editions)
Karen McCarthy Woolf – An Aviary of Small Birds (Carcanet)

The Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (£1,000) -

Maura Dooley – ‘Cleaning Jim Dine’s Heart’ (Poetry Review)
Andrew Elliott – ‘Döppelganger’ (Sonofabook)
Ann Gray – ‘My Blue Hen’ (The Moth)
Claire Harman – ‘The Mighty Hudson’ (TLS)
Kim Moore – ‘In That Year’ (Poetry News)

'The Forward Prizes remain the best way of encountering the richness that new poetry has to offer.' (The Daily Telegraph)