Stephen Knight received an Eric Gregory Award in 1987, and won the National Poetry Competition in 1992 and the 2003 TLS/Blackwells Poetry Competition. As well as a novel, Mr Schnitzel (the 2001 Wales Book of the Year), he has also published four books of poems and two pamphlets, including The Sandfields Baudelaire, a winner in the 1995 Book & Pamphlet Competition.