Year |
Prize |
Recipients |
Title of Work Presented |
1998 |
1st Prize |
Margaret Gill |
Alternate Songs from the Kingdom of the Lily |
Presented March 12, 1999 in the Grande Salle |
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Dana Gilkes |
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Charmaine Gill |
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1999 |
1st Prize |
Dana Gilkes |
Anatomy Of a Scream |
Presented Jan7, 2000 in the Grande Salle |
2nd prize |
Anthony Kellman |
Wings of a Stranger |
Joint 3rd Prize |
Margaret Prescod-Cisse’ |
A House without Windows |
Winston Farrell |
Bustin’ the Blues |
Honourable Mention |
Trevor Yearwood |
The Patchwork Boat |
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2000 |
Joint 1st prize |
James Carmichael |
The Third One |
Presented Jan 6, 2001 in the Grande Salle |
Ellyn Stanton |
Opium, Advent & Communion |
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2001 |
1st prize |
Thom Cross |
The Final Truth |
Presented Jan 5, 2002 in the Grande Salle |
Ester Phillips |
When Ground Doves Fly |
2nd prize |
Carol Bourne |
Sarabande |
Honourable Mention |
Nailah Folami Imoja |
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Trevor Yearwood |
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Robert Sandiford |
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Sandra Morris |
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2002 |
1st Prize |
Glenville Lovell |
Mango Sweet, Mango Ripe |
Presented Jan 11, 2003 in the Grande Salle |
Claire Ince |
Rehearsals |
3rd Prize |
Nick Whittle |
Ithaka |
John Wickham Prize |
Tonya Haynes |
Old for New |
Special Prize |
Geralyn Walkes |
The Grimordeon |
Commendations |
Robert Sandiford |
Batik Man |
Dana Gilkes |
Silence is the Mastermind |
Glenville Lovell |
Stolen Dreams |
Prime Minister’s Award |
Winston Farrell |
Poems of Island Streets |
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2003 |
1st Prize |
Winston Farrell |
Barefoot on Ice |
Presented Jan 10, 2004 in the Grande Salle |
2nd prize |
Cherrie Jones |
Burning Bush Women |
3rd prize |
Mark Jason Welch |
Rainy Season Come |
4th Prize |
Robert Sandiford |
Sand for Snow (vignettes) |
Prime Minister Award |
Raymond Lashley |
Animal Flower Cave |
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2004 |
1st Prize |
Yvonne Mary Selina Weekes |
Volcano |
Presented Jan 8, 2005 in the Grande Salle |
2nd Prize |
Esther Phillips |
Nexus |
3rd Prize |
Kerry Andre Belgrave |
Prelude to the Dimensions of Silence |
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Prime Minister’s Award |
Raymond Colin Field |
The First Kill |
Honourable Mention |
Mark Jason Welch |
I Did Not Take |
Sonia Williams |
The Passing |
Christopher White |
God is a Bajan |
Michael Gilkes |
Woodbine |
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2005 |
1st Prize
(Also received the Prime Minister’s Award) |
Linda Deane |
Cutting Road Blues: a Narrative |
Presented Jan 21st 2006 in the Grande
Salle |
2nd Prize |
Robert Sandiford |
The Next Time |
3rd Prize |
Nailah Folami Imoja |
Colourblind |
Glenville Lovell |
Ruins of a Great House |
Honourable Mention |
Thom Cross |
The Swimmer |
Lurline Elzing |
Sonny Boy |
Anthony Hinkson |
Bumba Tuk |
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2006
Presented Jan 6th 2007 in the Grande Salle |
1st prize |
Kamau Brathwaite |
Missa Solemnis |
2nd prize |
Margaret Gill |
Machinations of a feminist |
3rd Prize |
Glenville Lovell |
Bajan lovers |
Prime minister’s Award |
Colin Hope |
Interrupted journey |
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2007
Presented Jan 5th 2008 in the Grande Salle |
1st |
Mark Jason Welch |
Ackee Season (Poetry) |
Special Prize (Commendation) |
Anoush Hope-Fischer |
Yesterday Was a Woman |
Special Award for Lifetime Achievement |
William S. Arthur |
The prize recognizes Mr. Arthur’s
commitment to Caribbean subjects and his appreciation of the dignity of common people at a time when his
contemporaries often adopted the gaze of the colonizer |
Prime Minister’s Award |
Alvin Cummins’ |
for his body of work |
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2008
Presented Jan 10th 2009 in the Grande Salle |
1st Prize |
Karen Lord |
Redemption in Indigo |
2nd Prize |
Thomas Armstrong |
Of Water and Rock |
Prime Minister’s Award |
Trevor Yearwood |
The Rainbow Man |
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2009
Presented Jan 9th 2010 in the Grande Salle |
1st Prize |
Karen Lord |
The Best of All Possible Worlds |
2nd Prize |
Glenville Lovell |
Sodom |
3rd Prize |
Heather Barker |
The Millipede Eats the Mongoose |
Prime Minister’s Award |
Dr. Lance Bannister |
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