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British poetry award

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**Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize**, more commonly the **Newdigate Prize**, is awarded by the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford) for the Best Composition in [English verse](/source/English_poetry) by an undergraduate student.[1] It was founded in 1806 as a memorial to [Sir Roger Newdigate](/source/Roger_Newdigate) (1719–1806).[2] The winning poem is announced at [Encaenia](/source/Encaenia).[3] Instructions are published as follows: "The length of the poem is not to exceed 300 lines.[3] The metre is not restricted to [heroic couplets](/source/Heroic_couplet), but dramatic form of composition is not allowed."

## Overview

The first winner was [John Wilson](/source/John_Wilson_(Scottish_writer)) ("Christopher North"). Notable winners have included [Robert Stephen Hawker](/source/Robert_Stephen_Hawker), [John Ruskin](/source/John_Ruskin), [Matthew Arnold](/source/Matthew_Arnold), [Laurence Binyon](/source/Laurence_Binyon), [Oscar Wilde](/source/Oscar_Wilde), [John Buchan](/source/John_Buchan), [John Addington Symonds](/source/John_Addington_Symonds), [James Laver](/source/James_Laver), [Donald Hall](/source/Donald_Hall), [James Fenton](/source/James_Fenton), [P. M. Hubbard](/source/P._M._Hubbard), and [Alan Hollinghurst](/source/Alan_Hollinghurst).

The parallel award given at the University of Cambridge is the [Chancellor's Gold Medal](/source/Chancellor's_Gold_Medal).

## Past titles and winners

Where known, the title of the winning poem is given, followed by the name of the author. Each year links to its corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

### Notable 19th-century winners

- 1813: 'The Pantheon' [Francis Hawkins](/source/Francis_Hawkins_(physician%2C_1794%E2%80%931877))[4]

- 1827: 'Pompeii', [Robert Stephen Hawker](/source/Robert_Hawker_(poet))

- 1829: 'Voyages of Discovery to the Polar Regions', [Thomas Legh Claughton](/source/Thomas_Legh_Claughton)

- 1830: 'The African Desert', [George Kettilby Rickards](/source/George_Kettilby_Rickards)

- 1834: 'The Hospice of St. Bernard', [Joseph Arnould](/source/Joseph_Arnould)[5]

- 1837: 'The Gypsies', [Arthur Penrhyn Stanley](/source/Arthur_Penrhyn_Stanley)

- 1838: 'The Exile of St. Helena', [Joseph Henry Dart](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Henry_Dart&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1839: 'Salsette and Elephanta', [John Ruskin](/source/John_Ruskin)[6]

- 1843: 'Cromwell', [Matthew Arnold](/source/Matthew_Arnold)[7][8]

- 1844: 'Battle of the Nile', [Joseph Lloyd Brereton](/source/Joseph_Lloyd_Brereton)

- 1845: 'Petra', [John William Burgon](/source/John_William_Burgon)

- 1852: 'The Feast of Belshazzar', [Sir Edwin Arnold](/source/Edwin_Arnold)

- 1853: 'The Ruins of Egyptian Thebes', [Samuel Harvey Reynolds](/source/Samuel_Harvey_Reynolds)

- 1857: 'The Temple of Janus', [Philip Stanhope Worsley](/source/Philip_Stanhope_Worsley)[9]

- 1860: 'The Escorial', [John Addington Symonds](/source/John_Addington_Symonds)

- 1868: 'The Catacombs', [John Alexander Stewart](/source/John_Alexander_Stewart_(philosopher))

- 1870: [John Huntley Skrine](/source/John_Huntley_Skrine)[10]

- 1875: 'David Livingstone', [George Earle Buckle](/source/George_Earle_Buckle)

- 1877: 'The Battle of Stamford Bridge', [John Brooks](/source/John_Brooks_(lawyer_and_politician))

- 1878: 'Ravenna', [Oscar Wilde](/source/Oscar_Wilde)[8]

- 1880: 'Raleigh', [Rennell Rodd](/source/Rennell_Rodd)

- 1883: 'Inez de Castro' [John Bowyer Buchanan Nichols](/source/John_Bowyer_Buchanan_Nichols)[11]

- 1886: 'Savonarola', [R. L. Gales](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=R._L._Gales&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1887: 'Sakya-Muni: The Story of Buddha', [Sidney A. Alexander](/source/Sidney_A._Alexander)

- 1888: 'Gordon in Africa', [Arthur Waugh](/source/Arthur_Waugh)

- 1898: 'The Pilgrim Fathers', [John Buchan](/source/John_Buchan)

- 1890: 'Persephone', [Laurence Binyon](/source/Laurence_Binyon)

- 1895: 'Montezuma', [John Stanhope Arkwright](/source/John_Arkwright_(politician))

- 1900: 'Robespierre', [Arthur Carré](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Carr%C3%A9&action=edit&redlink=1)

### 20th century

- 1901: 'Galileo', [William Garrod](/source/H._W._Garrod)

- 1902: 'Minos', [Ernest Wodehouse](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ernest_Wodehouse&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1903: not awarded

- 1904: 'Delphi', [George Bell](/source/George_Bell_(bishop))

- 1905: 'Garibaldi', [Arthur R. Reade](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur_R._Reade&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1906: 'The Death of Shelley', [Geoffrey Scott](/source/Geoffrey_Scott_(architectural_historian))

- 1907: 'Camoens', [Robert Cruttwell](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Cruttwell&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1908: 'Holyrood', [Julian Huxley](/source/Julian_Huxley)

- 1909: 'Michelangelo', [Frank Ashton-Gwatkin](/source/Frank_Ashton-Gwatkin)

- 1910: 'Atlantis', [Charles Bewley](/source/Charles_Bewley)

- 1911: 'Achilles', [Roger Heath](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roger_Heath&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1912: 'Richard I Before Jerusalem', [William Chase Greene](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Chase_Greene&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1913: 'Oxford', [Maurice Roy Ridley](/source/Maurice_Roy_Ridley)

- 1914: 'The Burial of Sophocles', Robert William Sterling

- 1915: not awarded

- 1916: 'Venice', Russell Green

- 1917: suspended due to war

- 1918: suspended due to war

- 1919: 'France', [P. H. B. Lyon](/source/P._H._B._Lyon)

- 1920: 'The Lake of Garda', [George Johnstone](/source/George_Harcourt_Vanden-Bampde-Johnstone%2C_3rd_Baron_Derwent)

- 1921: 'Cervantes', [James Laver](/source/James_Laver)

- 1922: 'Mount Everest', [James Reid](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Reid_(poet)&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1923: 'London', [Christopher Scaife](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christopher_Scaife&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1924: 'Michelangelo', [Franklin McDuffee](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Franklin_McDuffee&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1925: 'Byron', [Edgar McInnis](/source/Edgar_McInnis)

- 1926: not awarded

- 1927: 'Julia, Daughter of Claudius', [Gertrude Trevelyan](/source/G._E._Trevelyan)

- 1928: 'The Mermaid Tavern', [Angela Cave](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Angela_Cave&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1929: 'The Sands of Egypt', [Phyllis Hartnoll](/source/Phyllis_Hartnoll)

- 1930: 'Daedalus', [Josephine Fielding](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Josephine_Fielding&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1931: 'Vanity Fair', [Michael Balkwill](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Balkwill&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1932: 'Sir Walter Scott', [Richard Hennings](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Hennings&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1933: 'Ovid among the Goths', [Philip Maitland Hubbard](/source/P._M._Hubbard)[12]

- 1934: 'Fire', [Edward Lowbury](/source/Edward_Lowbury)

- 1935: 'Canterbury', [Allan Plowman](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allan_Plowman&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1936: 'Rain', [David Winser](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Winser&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1937: 'The Man in the Moon', [Margaret Stanley-Wrench](/source/Margaret_Stanley-Wrench)

- 1938: 'Milton Blind', [Michael Thwaites](/source/Michael_Thwaites)

- 1939: 'Dr Newman Revisits Oxford', [Kenneth Kitchin](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Kitchin&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1940–1946: suspended due to war

- 1947: 'Nemesis', [Merton Atkins](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Merton_Atkins&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1948: 'Caesarion', Peter Way

- 1949: 'The Black Death', [Peter Weitzman](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Weitzman&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1950: 'Eldorado', [John Bayley](/source/John_Bayley_(writer))

- 1951: 'The Queen of Sheba', [Michael Hornyansky](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Hornyansky&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1952: 'Exile', [Donald Hall](/source/Donald_Hall) (published in *OP* 1953)[13]

- 1953: not awarded

- 1954: not awarded

- 1955: 'Elegy for a Dead Clown', [(Edwin) Stuart Evans](/source/Stuart_Evans_(author))

- 1956: 'The Deserted Altar', David Posner

- 1957: 'Leviathan', [Robert James Maxwell](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_James_Maxwell&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1958: 'The Earthly Paradise', [Jon Stallworthy](/source/Jon_Stallworthy)

- 1959: not awarded

- 1960: 'A Dialogue between Caliban and Ariel', [John Fuller](/source/John_Fuller_(poet))

- 1961: not awarded

- 1962: 'May Morning', [Stanley Johnson](/source/Stanley_Johnson_(writer))[8]

- 1963: not awarded

- 1964: 'Disease', [James Hamilton-Paterson](/source/James_Hamilton-Paterson)[14]

- 1965: 'Fear', [Peter Jay](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Jay_(poet)&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1966: not awarded

- 1967: not awarded

- 1968: 'The Opening of Japan', [James Fenton](/source/James_Fenton)[15]

- 1969: not awarded

- 1970: 'Instructions to a Painter', [Charles Radice](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Radice&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1971: not awarded

- 1972: 'The Ancestral Face', [Neil Rhodes](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neil_Rhodes&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1973: 'The Wife's Tale', [Christopher Mann](/source/Chris_Mann_(poet))

- 1974: 'Death of a Poet', [Alan Hollinghurst](/source/Alan_Hollinghurst)

- 1975: 'Inland', [Andrew Motion](/source/Andrew_Motion)

- 1976: 'Hostages', [David Winzar](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Winzar&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1977: 'The Fool', Michael King

- 1978: not awarded

- 1979: not awarded

- 1980: 'Inflation', [Simon Higginson](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simon_Higginson&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1981: not awarded

- 1982: 'Souvenirs', [Gordon Wattles](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gordon_Wattles&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1983: 'Triumphs', [Peter McDonald](/source/Peter_McDonald_(critic)) (published in *OP* I.2)

- 1984: 'Fear', [James Leader](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Leader&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1985: 'Magic', [Robert Twigger](/source/Robert_Twigger)[16]

- 1986: 'An Epithalamion', [William Morris](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Morris_(Newdigate_winner)&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1987: 'Memoirs of Tiresias', Bruce Gibson; 'Palimpsest at Thebes'[a], [Michael Felix Suarez](/source/Michael_F._Suarez) (joint winners)[17]

- 1988: 'Elegy', [Mark Wormald](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Wormald&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1989: 'The House', [Jane Griffiths](/source/Jane_Griffiths_(poet))

- 1990: 'Mapping', Roderick Clayton

- 1991: not awarded

- 1992: 'Green Thought', [Fiona Sampson](/source/Fiona_Sampson)

- 1993: 'The Landing', [Caron Röhsler](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caron_R%C3%B6hsler&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1994: 'Making Sense', [James Merino](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Merino&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 1995: 'Judith with the Head of Holofernes', [Antony Dunn](/source/Antony_Dunn) (published in *OP* IX.1)

- 1996: not awarded

- 1997: not awarded

- 1998: not awarded

- 1999: not awarded

### 21st century

- 2000: 'A Book of Hours'.

- 2005: 'Lyons', [Arina Patrikova](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arina_Patrikova&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 2006: 'BEE-POEMS', [Paul Thomas Abbott](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_Thomas_Abbott&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 2007: [Meirion Jordan](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meirion_Jordan&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 2008: 'Returning, 1945', [Rachel Piercey](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rachel_Piercey&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 2009: 'Allotments', [Arabella Currie](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arabella_Currie&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 2010: 'The Mapmaker's Daughter', [Lavinia Singer](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lavinia_Singer&action=edit&redlink=1)

- 2011: not awarded

- 2012: not awarded

- 2013: 'Edgelands', Daisy Syme-Taylor[18]

- 2014: 'The Centrifuge', Andrew Wynn Owen[19]

- 2015: not awarded

- 2016: 'Sinai', Mary Anne Clark[20]

- 2017: 'Borderlines', [Dominic Hand](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dominic_Hand&action=edit&redlink=1) (published in *Oxford Poetry* XVII.i)[21][22]

- 2018: not awarded[23]

- 2019: not awarded[24]

- 2020: 'the summer critter speaks not of frost' (夏蟲不可語冰), [Rachel Ka Yin Leung](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rachel_Ka_Yin_Leung&action=edit&redlink=1)[25][26]

- 2021: 'Koinobionts', Annabelle Fuller[27]

- 2022: 'pecking orders', Maggie Wang[28]

- 2023: 'The girl I saw through the James Webb Telescope', Nicholas Stone[29][30]

- 2024: ‘At the Papal Palace’ and ‘After “Horses, Peacefully Farting & Snoring” ’, Shaw Worth[31]

- 2025: 'Jongleurs', [Austin Spendlowe](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Austin_Spendlowe&action=edit&redlink=1)[32]

- 2026: 'The Deposition of Harry Goodsir, Assistant Surgeon', Angus Barrett[33] (Subject: 'Conversation')[34]

## See also

- [List of British literary awards](/source/List_of_British_literary_awards)

- [List of literary awards](/source/List_of_literary_awards)

- [List of poetry awards](/source/List_of_poetry_awards)

- [List of years in literature](/source/List_of_years_in_literature)

- [List of years in poetry](/source/List_of_years_in_poetry)

- [Oxford Poetry](/source/Oxford_Poetry)

- [Prizes named after people](/source/Prizes_named_after_people)

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-17)** The set subject for this year was "Memoirs of Tiresias".

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Prizes and Studentships"](https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/prizes-and-studentships#collapse385931). *www.english.ox.ac.uk*. Retrieved 28 April 2023. The prize is open to current matriculated undergraduate students of the university.

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1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:0_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:0_3-1) ["Newdigate Prize | British literary prize"](https://www.britannica.com/art/Newdigate-Prize). *Encyclopedia Britannica*. Retrieved 12 December 2020.

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1. **[^](#cite_ref-20)** ["Andrew Wynn Owen Wins the Newdigate Prize"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160424161807/http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/news/andrew-wynn-owen-wins-the-newdigate-prize-2/). Magdalen College, Oxford. Archived from [the original](http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/news/andrew-wynn-owen-wins-the-newdigate-prize-2/) on 24 April 2016. Retrieved 27 May 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-21)** ["Prizes and Studentships"](http://english.web.ox.ac.uk/prizes-and-studentships#collapse1-0). University of Oxford Faculty of English. Retrieved 27 October 2016. In 2016 the Sir Roger Newdigate Prize was awarded to Mary Anne Clark for her entry 'Sinai'.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-22)** ["Faculty Prizewinners Announced"](https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/article/faculty-prizewinners-announced). University of Oxford Faculty of English. Retrieved 1 June 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-23)** ["Oriel Undergraduate Dominic Hand Wins University's Newdigate Prize for Poetry"](http://www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/about-college/news-events/news/oriel-undergraduate-dominic-hand-wins-university%E2%80%99s-newdigate-prize). Retrieved 2 July 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-24)** ["Prizes and Studentships"](https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/prizes-and-studentships#collapse385931). University of Oxford Faculty of English. Retrieved 4 March 2019. In 2018 the Sir Roger Newdigate Prize was not awarded.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-25)** ["Prizes and Studentships"](https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/prizes-and-studentships#collapse385931). University of Oxford Faculty of English. Retrieved 12 June 2019. In 2019 the Sir Roger Newdigate Prize was not awarded.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-26)** ["Prizes and Studentships"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200602222852/https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/prizes-and-studentships). *www.english.ox.ac.uk*. 2 June 2020. Archived from [the original](https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/prizes-and-studentships) on 2 June 2020. The winner for the Sir Roger Newdigate Prize in 2019-20 was Rachel Leung, for her entry 'the summer critter speaks not of frost.'

1. **[^](#cite_ref-27)** ["Sir Roger Newdigate prize awarded to Leung Rachel Ka Yin"](https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/article/sir-roger-newdigate-prize-awarded-to-leung-rachel-ka-yin). *University of Oxford*. 10 June 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-28)** ["Prizes and Studentships"](https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/prizes-and-studentships#collapse385931). University of Oxford Faculty of English. Retrieved 10 May 2021. In 2021 the Sir Roger Newdigate Prize was awarded to Annabelle Fuller for her entry 'Koinobionts'.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-29)** ["Maggie Wang wins the Sir Roger Newdigate Prize with her poem 'pecking orders'"](https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/article/maggie-wang-wins-the-sir-roger-newdigate-prize-with-her-poem-pecking-orders). *www.english.ox.ac.uk*. Retrieved 28 April 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-30)** ["HMC Law student wins Sir Roger Newdigate Prize"](https://www.hmc.ox.ac.uk/article/hmc-law-student-wins-sir-roger-newdigate-prize). *www.hmc.ox.ac.uk*. Retrieved 26 May 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-31)** ["Sir Roger Newdigate Prize 2023: winner announced"](https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/article/sir-roger-newdigate-prize-2023-winner-announced). *www.english.ox.ac.uk*. Retrieved 26 May 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-32)** ["Prizes and Studentships"](https://web.archive.org/web/20240601231302/https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/prizes-and-studentships). *www.english.ox.ac.uk*. Archived from [the original](https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/prizes-and-studentships) on 1 June 2024. The winner for the Sir Roger Newdigate Prize in 2023-24 was Shaw Worth (Magdalen College), for their submissions: 'At the Papal Palace' and 'After 'Horses, Peacefully Farting & Snoring''.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-33)** ["Prizes and Studentships"](https://web.archive.org/web/20250621012319/https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/prizes-and-studentships). *www.english.ox.ac.uk*. Archived from [the original](https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/prizes-and-studentships) on 21 June 2025. The winner for the Sir Roger Newdigate Prize in 2024-25 was Austin Spendlowe (Lincoln College), for their submissions: 'Jongleurs'.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-34)** ["Magdalen Student wins 2026 Sir Roger Newdigate poetry prize"](https://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/news/magdalen-student-wins-2026-sir-roger-newdigate-poetry-prize/). *Magdalen College*. Retrieved 18 May 2026.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-35)** ["Sir Roger Newdigate Prize 2026 awarded to Angus Barrett"](https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/article/sir-roger-newdigate-prize-2026-awarded-to-angus-barrett). *University of Oxford Faculty of English*. Retrieved 18 May 2026.

**Sources**

- Richter, editor, Annie J. (1946). *Literary Prizes and Their Winners*. R. R. Bowker Co.

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