This is a table of the first-prize winning poets from the beginning of the George Crabbe Memorial Prize Competition.
| Year | Poet (First Prize Winner) | Adjudicator(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Lizzi Thistlethwayte | Elizabeth Cook |
| 2024 | Esther Morgan | Luke Wright |
| 2023 | Nicola Warwick | Tamar Yoseloff |
| 2022 | Philip Rösel Baker | Blake Morrison |
| 2021 | Nicola Warwick | Anne-Marie Fyfe |
| 2020 | Elizabeth Cook | Martin Figura |
| 2019 | Christopher James | Tiffany Atkinson |
| 2018 | Caroline Price | André Mangeot |
| 2017 | Jim Green | Esther Morgan |
| 2016 | Pamela Job | Moniza Alvi |
| 2015 | Caroline Gilfillan | Robert Seatter |
| 2014 | David Healey | Gregory Warren Wilson |
| 2013 | Pamela Job | James Knox Whittet |
| 2012 | Caroline Gilfillan | Kenneth Steven |
| 2011 | James Knox Whittet | Elaine Feinstein |
| 2010 | Gill Napier | Gareth Calway |
| 2009 | Mike Bannister | Clive Scott |
| 2008 | James Knox Whittet | Graham Fawcett |
| 2007 | Laura Helyer | George Szirtes |
| 2006 | Andrew Frolish | Neil Powell, Andrea Holland |
| 2005 | James Knox Whittet | Danielle Hope |
| 2004 | James Knox Whittet | David Holliday |
| 2003 | Rosemary Merry | Alison Chisholm |
| 2002 | Elizabeth Bracken | Rodney Pybus |
| 2001 | Ross Cogan | Anne Beresford |
| 2000 | Helen Burke | Anthony Thwaite, Ann Thwaite |
| 1999 | Rupert Mallin | John Mole, Julian Stannard |
| 1998 | Julian Stannard | Judith Kazantzis, Martyn Crucefix |
| 1997 | Julian Stannard | Jo Shapcott, Harry Chambers |
| 1996 | Julian Stannard | Susan Wicks, William Scannell |
| 1995 | David Britton/Simon Maier | Jeni Couzyn, Lawrence Sail |
| 1994 | John Withers | Elaine Feinstein, David Dabydeen |
| 1993 | Caroline Price | Andrew Motion, Anthony Thwaite |
| 1992 | Marjorie Carter | D.J. Enright, Elizabeth Bartlett |
| 1991 | Joyce I Watson | Jon Silkin, William Radice |
| 1990 | James Bardsley | Wes Magee, Mike Shields |
| 1989 | Frank Wood | John Purkis, Roland Young |
| 1988 | Joan Galwey | Donald Davie, Ronald Blythe |
| 1987 | Robin Maunsell | Edward Storey, Edwin Brock |
| 1986 | Kim Baker | Edward Lowbury, Vernon Scannell |
| 1985 | Frank Wood | Gavin Ewart, Isobel Thrilling |
| 1984 | Kim Baker | Anthony Thwaite, Howard Sergeant |
| 1983 | Stephanie Fone | William Radice, Eric Sandon |
| 1982 | Lynn E Porter | Norman Hidden, Anne Beresford |
| 1981 | Isobel Thrilling | Kevin Crossley-Holland, R.N Curry |
| 1980 | Jennifer Andrews | John Smith, Kemble Williams |
| 1979 | Michael Ferguson | Wes Magee, Marguerite Wood |
| 1978 | Stephanie Fone/Anthony Weedon | John Holloway, Joan Foreman |
| 1977 | Robin Maunsell | R.N Curry, Ronald Blythe, Edwin Storey |
| 1976 | Mary Markwell | Alan Brownjohn, Roger Guedella, Anthony Rudolf |
| 1975 | Mary Markwell | Elizabeth Thomas, Clifford Simmons, Chris Wright |
| 1974 | Marguerite Wood/Marguerite Wood | Jeni Couzyn, Christopher Hampton, Robert Dumper |
| 1973 | Colin Fletcher | No records |
| 1972 | David L Johnson | Hester Marsden-Smedley, Leslie Norris, N. Hidden |
| 1971 | Robin Maunsell | James Turner, Eireen Beck, Alasdair Aston |
| 1970 | Leslie Leeks | Anne Ridler, Roger Hayward |
| 1969 | Kate Dell | P Hardiman-Scott, J. Murray Simpson, W.W. Wickett |
| 1968 | Kate Dell | Cyril Fletcher, Alan Dobson, Mrs M Bottrall |
| 1967 | Ron I. Redfern | David Holbrook, Miss McCarthy, Mrs Ford |
| 1966 | D. Murrell-Simmons | Mrs T. Williams, Frances Warner, Leslie Missen |
| 1965 | Gillian Edwards | Ronald Blythe, Dr Anernethy, Rev. J. Gilchrist |
| 1964 | Brig. J.R.T. Aldous | Edward Ritchie, Rita Spurr, Jack Lindsay |
| 1963 | Stephanie Fone | Mrs Redwood Anderson, Leslie Missen, Paul Jennings |
| 1962 | Nora Roughton | Norman Scarfe, Rev. Pierce Higgins, Paul Jennings |
| 1961 | Gillian Edwards | Thomas Moult, Doreen Wallace V. Sackville-West |
| 1960 | Gillian Edwards | Herbert Palmer, Mrs S.M. Curry, Dennis Page |
| 1959 | Francis Engleheart | John Betjeman, W.D. Rogers Stevie Smith |
| 1958 | Gillian Edwards | Sir Charles Tennyson, Philip Larkin, F. Cornford |
| 1957 | Francis Engleheart | John Hadfield, T.R. Henn |
| 1956 | Francis Engleheart | Kennedy Williamson |
| 1955 | Albert Ernest Tomlinson | Sir Francis Meynell, Thomas Moult, R.N. Curry |
| 1954 | Competition inaugurated |