Sam Riviere scoops Forward prize for best first collection
Belated congratulations to Faber’s Sam Riviere, who has won the Forward prize for best first collection. His 81 Austerities was an "effortless, wide-ranging and confident" look at everyday life in the digital world, said the judges.
In awards, announced at the beginning of this week, that have been somewhat under-reported this year – not least by Write Out Loud – the main £10,000 Forward prize went to Jorie Graham, the first American woman to win the award, with her 12th collection, Place.
Denise Riley's first published poem in five years, a "heartbreaking" meditation on the loss of her son entitled A Part Song, won the £1,000 prize for best single poem..