National Book Critics Circle for Poetry

awarded since 1975.

 

2005 selection

Refusing Heaven

National Book Critics Circle for Poetry 2005

by Jack Gilbert

More than a decade after Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. In Refusing...

1994 selection

Rider: The Rider Quintet, vol. 1

National Book Critics Circle for Poetry 1994

by Mark Rudman

Rudman skillfully explores his own life and past.