Signal Poetry Award

Sponsored by the journal, Signal: Approaches to Children's Books, and announced each year in the May issue. The most interesting part of this award is probably the article published in that issue evaluating the winning book, and other poetry published during the year.

Presented to a work for children published in the preceding year in Britain, regardless of the original country of publication. Has been presented to single-poet collections, and to anthologies.

Another page lists further information, including commended titles.

1997 - Carol Ann Duffy (editor), Stopping for Death (Viking)
1996 - Mike Harding, Buns for the Elephants (Viking)
1995 - Helen Dunmore, Secrets (Bodley Head)
1994 - Philip Gross, The All-Nite Café (Faber)
1993 - Jackie Kay, Two's Company (Blackie)
1992 - Anne Harvey (editor), Shades of Green (Julia MacRae)
1991 - Gerard Benson (editor), This Poem Doesn't Rhyme (Viking)
1990 - Allan Ahlberg, Heard it in the Playground (Viking Kestrel)
1989 - James Berry, When I Dance (Hamish Hamilton)
1988 - John Mole, Boo to a Goose (Peterloo Poets)
1987 - Charles Causley, Early in the Morning (Viking Kestrel)
1986 - Gareth Owen, Song of the City (Fontana)
1985 - Ted Hughes, What is the Truth? (Faber)
1984 - Roger McGough, Sky in the Pie (Kestrel)
1983 - Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes (editors), The Rattle Bag (Faber)
1982 - Michael Rosen, ill. by Quentin Blake (sharing the award), You Can't Catch Me! (Deutsch)
1981 - No Award
1980 - No Award
1979 - Ted Hughes, Moon-Bells and Other Poems (Chatto)

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