Irish Times Poetry Now Award

The Poetry Now Award is an annual literary prize presented for the best single volume of poetry by an Irish poet. The €5,000 award is presented during the annual Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Poetry Now international poetry festival. The festival began in 1996 and the first Poetry Now Award was bestowed in 2005. The award is sponsored by The Irish Times.

2011
Winner: Seamus Heaney, for Human Chain.

Shortlist:
 * Sara Berkeley, The View from Here.
 * Ciarán Carson, Until Before After.
 * Dermot Healy, A Fool's Errand.
 * Seamus Heaney, Human Chain.
 * Paul Muldoon, Maggot.

Judges: Brian Lynch (poet, novelist, and screen writer), Leanne O'Sullivan (poet), and Borbála Faragó (lecturer and critic).

2010
Winner: Sinéad Morrissey, for Through the Square Window.

Shortlist:
 * Ciarán Carson, On the Night Watch.
 * Vona Groarke, Spindrift.
 * Sinéad Morrissey, Through the Square Window.
 * Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, The Sun-fish.
 * Peter Sirr, The Thing Is.

Judges: John F. Deane, Alan Gillis, and Maria Johnston.

2009
Winner: Derek Mahon, for Life on Earth.

Shortlist:
 * Colette Bryce, Self-Portrait in the Dark.
 * Ciarán Carson, For All We Know.
 * Leontia Flynn, Drives.
 * Pearse Hutchinson, At Least For a While.
 * Derek Mahon, Life on Earth.

Judges: Kit Fryatt, Sean O'Brien, and Joseph Woods.

2008
Winner: Harry Clifton, for Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks 1994–2004.

Shortlist:
 * Harry Clifton, Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks 1994-2004.
 * Eamon Grennan, Out of Breath.
 * Dave Lordan, The Boy in the Ring.
 * Dennis O'Driscoll, Reality Check.
 * Matthew Sweeney, Black Moon.

Judges: Philip Coleman, Sasha Dugdale, and William Wall.

2007
Winner: Seamus Heaney, for District and Circle.

Shortlist:
 * Seamus Heaney, District and Circle.
 * Medbh McGuckian, The Currach Requires No Harbours.
 * Paul Muldoon, Horse Latitudes.
 * Caitriona O'Reilly, The Sea Cabinet.
 * David Wheatley, Mocker.

Judges: Eileen Battersby, Niall MacMonagle, and Maurice Riordan.

2006
Winner: Derek Mahon, for Harbour Lights.

Shortlist:
 * John F. Deane, The Instruments of Art.
 * Nick Laird, To a Fault.
 * Derek Mahon, Harbour Lights.
 * Sinéad Morrissey, The State of the Prisons.
 * Conor O'Callaghan, Fiction.

Judges: Patrick Crotty, Gerard Fanning, and Fiona Sampson.

2005
Winner: Dorothy Molloy, for Hare Soup, awarded posthumously (she died in January 2004) for her début collection.

Shortlist: Judges: Simon Armitage, Selina Guinness, and Colm Tóibín.
 * Paul Durcan, The Art of Life.
 * Alan Gillis, Somebody Somewhere.
 * Medbh McGuckian, The Book of the Angel.
 * Dorothy Molloy, Hare Soup.
 * Peter Sirr, Nonetheless.