Claudia Rankine wins Forward Poetry Prize 2015

Claudia Rankine's Citizen wins Forward Poetry Prize 2015

 

A book described by one critic as eavesdropping “on America and a racism that has never gone away” has won the top award at the 2015 Forward prizes for poetry.

Claudia Rankine has already won the National Book Critics Circle award in the US for Citizen: An American Lyric. On Monday night at a ceremony in London she was named winner of the Forward prize for best collection.

The competition results are announced as follows:

 

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

Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Penguin Books)

 

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

Mona Arshi, Small Hands, (Liverpool University Press)

 

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

Claire Harman, “The Mighty Hudson” (TLS)

Full information can be found on the Forward Arts Foundation Website