The Believer Poetry Award is an American literary award presented yearly by The Believer magazine to poetry collections the magazine's editors thought were "the finest, and the most deserving of greater recognition" of the year.
[1] The inaugural award was in 2011 for books published in 2010.
Thus below, the inaugural 2010 books were announced in early to mid-2011.
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡) The shortlist was announced in March 2011.
[10] The shortlist and winner was announced in April 2019.