Commonwealth Poetry Prize

The Commonwealth Poetry Prize is an annual award given since 1972. It is awarded for a first book of poetry in English published in a country other than the United Kingdeom.

Past winners include Phillip Salom (1981), Peter Goldsworthy (1982), and Julian Croft (1985) of Australia,, and Grace Nichols (1983) of Guyana.

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