Queen's Gold Medal For Poetry

The Gold Medal for Poetry was instituted by King George V in 1933 at the suggestion of the British Royal Court's Poet Laureate , Dr John Masefield .

The obverse of the medal bears the crowned effigy of The Queen. The idea of the reverse, which was designed by the late poem, 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'.

RECIPIENTS

2006 Fleur Adcock

2004 Hugo Williams

2003 U. A. Fanthorpe

2002 Peter Porter

2001 Michael Longley

2000 Edwin Morgan

1998 Les Murray

1996 Peter Redgrove

1992 Kathleen Raine

1991 Judith Wright

1990 Sorley Maclean

1989 Allen Curnow

1988 Derek Walcott

1986 Norman MacCaig

1981 D. J. Enright

1977 Norman Nicholson

1974 Ted Hughes

1973 John Heath-Stubbs

1971 Stephen Spender

1970 Roy Fuller

1969 Stevie Smith

1968 Robert Graves

1967 Charles Causley

1965 Philip Larkin

1964 R. S. Thomas

1963 William Plomer

1962 Christopher Fry

1960 John Betjeman

1959 Francis Cornford

1957 Siegfried Sassoon

1956 Edmund Blunden

1955 Ruth Pitter

1954 Ralph Hodgson

1953 Arthur Waley

1952 Andrew Young

1940 Michael Thwaites

1937 W. H. Auden

1934 Laurence Whistler

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Queen's Gold Medal For Poetry