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National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry
Christchurch City Libraries lists literary prize winners and links to catalogue searches, but we may not hold copies of all titles mentioned.
2008
- Sleeping It Off in Rapid City Winner
- August Kleinzahler
- Half the World in Light Winner
- Juan Felipe Herrera
- Sources
- Devin Johnston
- The Landscapist
- Pierre Martory (trans. John Ashbery)
- Human Dark with Sugar
- Brenda Shaughnessy
2007
- Elegy Winner
- Mary Jo Bang
- Modern Life
- Matthea Harvey
- Sleeping and Waking
- Michael O'Brien
- The Ballad of Jamie Allan
- Tom Pickard
- New Poems
- Tadeusz Rozewicz
2006
- Tom Thomson in Purgatory Winner
- Troy Jollimore
- My Brother is Getting Arrested Again
- Daisy Fried
- Poems (1945-1971)
- Miltos Sachtouris
- Ooga-Booga
- Frederick Seidel
- Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems
- W.D. Snodgrass
2005
- Refusing Heaven Winner
- Jack Gilbert
- The Shout
- Simon Armitage
- Bent to the Earth
- Manuel Blas de Luna
- Crush
- Richard Siken
- The Incentive of the Maggot
- Ron Slate
- 2004 The School among the ruins Adrienne Rich
- 2003 Columbarium Susan Stewart
- 2002 Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest B.H. Fairchild
- 2001 Saving lives Albert Goldbarth
- 2000 Carolina ghost woods Judy Jordan
- 1999 Ordinary words Ruth Stone
- 1998 The Bird Catcher Marie Ponsot
- 1997 Black Zodiac Charles Wright
- 1996 Sun under wood Robert Hass
- 1995 Time and money William Matthew
- 1994 Rider Mark Rudman
- 1993 My Alexandria Mark Doty
- 1992 Collected shorter poems 1946-1991 Hayden Carruth
- 1991 Heaven and earth: A cosmology Albert Goldbarth
- 1990 Bitter Angel Amy Gerstle
