PEN Heaney Prize

The PEN Heaney Prize is an annual poetry award launched in 2024. It is delivered as a partnership between English PEN, Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann and the estate of the Irish poet Seamus Heaney, after whom it is named. A volume of poetry qualifies for the award if it is written by a single author, is published in the United Kingdom or Ireland, is judged to be "of outstanding literary merit", and "engages with the impact of cultural or political events on human conditions or relationships."[1]

The winner of the PEN Heaney Prize is awarded £5,000. If the winning volume has been translated into English from another language, £5,000 is also awarded to the translator or translators.[2]

Winners and shortlists

Year Author(s) Title Publisher Result Reference
2024 Susannah Dickey ISDAL Picador Poetry Winner [3]
Martina Evans The Coming Thing Carcanet Poetry Shortlisted [4]
Fran Lock Hyena! Poetry Bus Press
Patrick McGuinness Blood Feather Cape Poetry
Dawn Watson We Play Here Granta Poetry
Yang Lian A Tower Built Downwards (translated by Brian Holton) Bloodaxe Books
2025 Don Mee Choi Mirror Nation And Other Stories Shortlisted [5]
Najwan Darwish No One Will Know You Tomorrow (translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid) Yale University Press
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha Something About Living the87press
Tom Paulin Namanlagh Faber & Faber
Stav Poleg The Banquet Carcanet Poetry
Karen Solie Wellwater Picador

Judges

References

  1. ^ "PEN Heaney Prize". English PEN. Retrieved 2025-10-29.
  2. ^ a b Spanoudi, Melina (2024-04-12). "New PEN Heaney Prize launched for poetry with focus on social engagement". The Bookseller. Archived from the original on 2025-09-09.
  3. ^ "Susannah Dickey wins the inaugural PEN Heaney Prize". English PEN. 2024-12-02. Retrieved 2025-10-29.
  4. ^ "PEN Heaney Prize 2024 shortlist". English PEN. 2024-11-05. Retrieved 2025-10-29.
  5. ^ a b Spanoudi, Melina (2025-10-23). "Six titles shortlisted for PEN Heaney Prize 2025". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2025-10-29.
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