Thom Gunn Award

The Thom Gunn Award is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle to honour works of gay male poetry. First presented in 2001 as the Triangle Award for Gay Poetry, the award was renamed in memory of British poet Thom Gunn, the award's first winner, following his death in 2004.

Winners

2001 — Thom Gunn, Boss Cupid
2002 — Mark Doty, Source
2003 — Greg Hewett, Red Suburb
2004 — Brian Teare, The Room Where I Was Born
2005 — Carl Phillips, The Rest of Love
2006 — Richard Siken, Crush
2007 — Justin Chin, Gutted
2008 — Steve Fellner, Blind Date with Cavafy and Daniel Hall, Under Sleep
2009 — Ely Shipley, Boy with Flower
2010 — Ronaldo V. Wilson, Poems of the Black Object
2011 — Michael Walsh, The Dirt Riddles
2012 — Henri Cole, Touch
2013 — Richard Blanco, Looking for the Gulf Motel^[1]
2014 — Charlie Bondhus, All the Heat We Could Carry^[2]
2015 — Jericho Brown, The New Testament
2016 — Rick Barot, Chord
2017 — Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds^[3]
2018 — Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
2019 — Hieu Minh Nguyen, Not Here^[4]
2020 — Sam Ross, Company^[5]
2021 — Mark Bibbins, 13th Balloon^[6]
2022 — John Keene, Punks^[7]
2023 --- Philip Clark and Michael Bronski, eds., Invisible History: The Collected Poems of Walta Borawski^[8]

References

^ "Going for the Silver" Archived 2014-07-05 at the Wayback Machine. Gay City News, May 8, 2013.
^ "Do ask, do tell: Poetry collection about U.S. soldier wins gay literary award" Archived 2014-05-06 at the Wayback Machine. Washington Post, April 25, 2014.
^ van Koeverden, Jane (May 8, 2017). "Vivek Shraya wins Publishing Triangle Award for even this page is white". CBC.ca. Archived from the original on December 22, 2023. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
^ "This Year's Triangle Award Winners Announced" Archived 2019-05-05 at the Wayback Machine. Publishers Weekly, April 24, 2019.
^ Samraweet Yohannes, "Téa Mutonji and Kai Cheng Thom among winners of 2020 Publishing Triangle Awards for LGBTQ literature" Archived 2020-05-04 at the Wayback Machine. CBC Books, May 1, 2020.
^ "2021 Triangle Award Winners Announced". Publishers Weekly. May 12, 2021. Archived from the original on May 19, 2021. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
^ "Anthony Veasna So wins posthumous award for LGBTQ fiction" Archived 2022-11-03 at the Wayback Machine. Toronto Star, May 11, 2022.
^ "2023 Publishing Triangle Award Winners Announced". Publishers Weekly. April 28, 2023. Archived from the original on April 29, 2023. Retrieved April 30, 2023.

External links

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[1] "Going for the Silver" Archived 2014-07-05 at the Wayback Machine. Gay City News, May 8, 2013.

[gunn-2] "Do ask, do tell: Poetry collection about U.S. soldier wins gay literary award" Archived 2014-05-06 at the Wayback Machine. Washington Post, April 25, 2014.

[3] van Koeverden, Jane (May 8, 2017). "Vivek Shraya wins Publishing Triangle Award for even this page is white". CBC.ca. Archived from the original on December 22, 2023. Retrieved December 22, 2023.

[4] "This Year's Triangle Award Winners Announced" Archived 2019-05-05 at the Wayback Machine. Publishers Weekly, April 24, 2019.

[5] Samraweet Yohannes, "Téa Mutonji and Kai Cheng Thom among winners of 2020 Publishing Triangle Awards for LGBTQ literature" Archived 2020-05-04 at the Wayback Machine. CBC Books, May 1, 2020.

[6] "2021 Triangle Award Winners Announced". Publishers Weekly. May 12, 2021. Archived from the original on May 19, 2021. Retrieved May 19, 2021.

[7] "Anthony Veasna So wins posthumous award for LGBTQ fiction" Archived 2022-11-03 at the Wayback Machine. Toronto Star, May 11, 2022.

[8] "2023 Publishing Triangle Award Winners Announced". Publishers Weekly. April 28, 2023. Archived from the original on April 29, 2023. Retrieved April 30, 2023.

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