2 April 2018
Jay Bernard has won the Ted Hughes award for new poetry with the performance Surge: Side A, a multimedia sequence which explores the 1981 New Cross fire.
The £5,000 prize is given to the poet "who has made the most exciting contribution to poetry", putting published collections alongside live performance, installations and radio pieces.
Bernard, who uses the pronoun "they", examined a tragedy which came to be a defining moment in black British history after 13 young people died at a birthday party in south London.