Founded in 2009, The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets celebrate pamphlet publishing in the UK. From their inception, the awards have promoted the pamphlet form and enabled poets, illustrators and publishers to develop and continue creating. There are now four awards:
The Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlet (£5,000 and a residency in Greece)
The Michael Marks Award for Environmental Poetry Pamphlet (£1,000 and a residency in Greece)
The Michael Marks Award for Publisher (£5,000)
The Michael Marks Award for Illustration (£1,000)
The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets 2026 have been announced.
Hasti Wins the Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlet for young, dumb, and full of poems
Green Bottle Press Wins the Michael Marks Award for Publisher
Patrick Romero McCafferty Wins the Michael Marks Award for Environmental Poetry Pamphlet with Glass Knot Sun
Hana Ormara Wins the Michael Marks Award for Illustration for Godhuma: The Breathing of the Earth
The Michael Marks Awards have been celebrating environmental poetry with awards for poets since 2022. In 2025 we are transforming this support, introducing The Michael Marks Award for Environmental Poetry Pamphlet. The prize will be given to the best poetry pamphlet, published in the UK, with an environmental theme. This new award recognises the work of poetry pamphlet editors and publishers; as well as celebrating poets writing in this vital area.
The Michael Marks Poets in Residence programme welcomes two poets annually to Greece: winners of The Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlet and Michael Marks Award for Environmental Poetry Pamphlet.
Poets are hosted by The British School at Athens who have been promoting research of international excellence in all disciplines pertaining to Greek lands since 1886. The programme is also made possible through collaboration with The Michael Marks Charitable Trust and Wordsworth Grasmere.
