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The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form. It is named after Kenneth Slessor (1901–1971).

Contents

The prize currently comes with a A$30,000 cash award.

2014

  • Winner: Fiona Hile – Novelties, Hunter
  • Justin Clemens – The Mundiad, Hunter
  • Diane Fahey – The Stone Garden: poems from Clare, Clouds of Magellan
  • Liam Ferney – Boom, Grand Parade Poets
  • Kate Middleton – Ephemeral Waters, Giramondo Publishing
  • Jessica Wilkinson – Marionette: A biography of Miss Marion Davies, Vagabond Press

    • 2013

  • Winner: Ali Cobby-Eckermann – Ruby Moonlight, Magabala Books
  • Kate Fagan – First Light, Giramondo Publishing
  • Michael Farrell – Open Sesame, Giramondo Publishing
  • Anthony Lawrence – The Welfare of my Enemy, Puncher & Wattman
  • Kate Lilley – Ladylike, UWA Publishing
  • Vivian Smith – Here, There and Elsewhere, Giramondo Publishing

    • 2012

  • Winner: Gig Ryan – New and Selected Poems, Giramondo Publishing
  • Ken Bolton – Sly Mongoose, Puncher and Wattman
  • Susan Hawthorne – Cow, Spinifex Press
  • John Mateer – Southern Barbarians, Giramondo Publishing
  • Claire Potter – Swallow, Five Islands Press
  • Tracy Ryan – The Argument, Fremantle Press

    • 2011

  • Winner: Jennifer Maiden – Pirate Rain, Giramondo Publishing
  • Susan Bradley Smith – Supermodernprayerbook, Salt Publishing
  • Andy Jackson – Among The Regulars, Papertiger Media Inc
  • Jill Jones – Dark Bright Doors, Wakefield Press Pty
  • Anna Kerdijk Nicholson – Possession, Five Island Press
  • Andy Kissane – Out to Lunch, Puncher and Wattmann

    • 2010

  • Winner: Jordie Albiston – The Sonnet According to "M"
  • Emily Ballou – The Darwin Poems
  • Judith Beveridge – Storm and Honey
  • Emma Jones – The Striped World
  • Morgan Yasbincek – White Camel

    • 2009

  • Winner: LK Holt – Man Wolf Man, John Leonard Press.
  • Michael Brennan – Unanimous Night, Salt Publishing
  • David Brooks – The Balcony, University of Queensland Press
  • Sarah Holland-Batt – Aria, University of Queensland Press
  • Kerry Leves – A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar, Puncher & Wattman
  • Alan Wearne – The Australian Popular Songbook, Giramondo

    • 2008

  • Winner: Kathryn Lomer – Two Kinds of Silence
  • Joanne Burns – an illustrated history of dairies
  • Brook Emery – Uncommon Light
  • Peter Kirkpatrick – Westering
  • David Malouf – Typewriter Music
  • Phyllis Perlstone – The Edge of Everything

    • 2007

  • Winner: John Tranter – Urban Myths, University of Queensland Press
  • Robert Adamson – The Goldfinches of Baghdad, Flood Editions
  • Laurie Duggan – The Passenger, University of Queensland Press
  • Les Murray – The Biplane Houses, Black Inc.
  • Simon West – First Names, Puncher and Wattmann
  • Fay Zwicky – Picnic, Giramondo Publishing Company

    • 2006

  • Winner: Jaya Savige – Latecomers, University of Queensland Press.
  • Aidan Coleman – Avenues & Runways, Brandl & Schlesinger
  • Susan Hampton – The Kindly Ones, Five Islands Press
  • Jill Jones – Broken/Open, Salt Publishing
  • Penelope Layland – Suburban Anatomy, Pandanus Books
  • David McCooey – Blister Pack, Salt Publishing

    • 2005

  • Winner: Samuel Wagan Watson – Smoke Encrypted Whispers, University of Queensland Press
  • M. T. C. Cronin – < More or Less Than> 1–100, Shearsman Books Ltd
  • Lidija Cvetkovic – War is Not the Season for Figs, University of Queensland Press
  • John Kinsella – Doppler Effect, Salt Publishing
  • Dipti Saravanamuttu – The Colosseum, Five Islands Press
  • Alan Wearne – The Lovemakers Book Two: Money and Nothing, ABC Books

    • 2004

  • Winner: Pam Brown – Dear Deliria: New & Selected Poems, Salt Publishing
  • Jordie Albiston – The Fall, White Crane Press
  • M. T. C. Cronin – beautiful, unfinished Salt Publishing
  • Brook Emery – Misplaced Heart, Five Islands Press
  • Philip Hammial – In the Year of Our Lord Slaughter's Children, Island Press
  • John Tranter – Studio Moon, Salt Publishing

    • 2003

  • Winner: Jill Jones – Screens Jets Heaven
  • Alison Croggon – Attempts at Being
  • Kate Lilley – Versary
  • Emma Lew – Anything the Landlord Touches
  • Sarah Day – New and Selected Poems
  • Robert Gray – Afterimages

    • 2002

  • Winner: Alan Wearne – The Lovemakers, Penguin Books Australia
  • Robert Adamson – Mulberry Leaves: New & Selected Poems: 1970–2001, Paper Bark Press
  • Martin Harrison – Summer, Paper Bark Press
  • Dorothy Hewett – Halfway Up the Mountain, Fremantle Arts Centre Press
  • Bronwyn Lea – Flight Animals, University of Queensland Press
  • Gig Ryan – Heroic Money, Brandl & Schlesinger
  • John Tranter – Ultra, Brandl & Schlesinger

    • 2001

  • Winner: Ken Taylor – Africa, Five Islands Press
  • Jennifer Compton – Blue, Ginninderra Press
  • Brook Emery – and dug my fingers in the sand, Five Islands Press
  • Philip Hammial – Bread, Black Pepper
  • J. S. Harry – Sun Shadow, Moon Shadow, Vagabond Press
  • Wendy Jenkins – Rogue Equations, Fremantle Arts Centre Press

    • 2000

  • Winner: Jennifer Maiden – Mines, Paper Bark Press/Australian Humanities Research Foundation
  • Richard James Allen – Thursday's Fictions, Five Islands Press
  • M. T. C. Cronin – Everything Holy, Balcones International Press
  • Jennifer Harrison – Dear B, Black Pepper
  • Kevin Hart – Wicked Heat, Paper Bark Press
  • John Millett – Iceman, Five Islands Press

    • 1999 and before

    Award winners:

  • 1999: Lee Cataldi – Race Against Time, Penguin Books Australia
  • 1998: no awards were presented
  • 1997: Anthony Lawrence – The Viewfinder, University of Queensland Press
  • 1996: Eric Beach – Weeping for Lost Babylon, HarperCollins and J. S. Harry – Selected Poems, Penguin Books Australia
  • 1995: Peter Boyle – Coming Home From the World, Five Islands Press
  • 1994: Barry Hill – Ghosting William Buckley, William Heinemann Australia
  • 1993: Les Murray – Translations from the Natural World, Isabella Press
  • 1992: Elizabeth Riddell – Selected Poems, Collins Angus & Robertson
  • 1991: Jennifer Maiden – The Winter Baby, Collins Angus & Robertson
  • 1990: Robert Adamson – The Clean Dark, Paper Bark Press
  • 1989: John Tranter – Under Berlin, University of Queensland Press
  • 1988: Judith Beveridge – The Domesticity of Giraffes, Black Lightning Press
  • 1987: Philip Hodgins – Blood and Bone, Angus & Robertson
  • 1986: Robert Gray – Selected Poems 1963–83, Angus & Robertson
  • 1985: Kevin Hart – Your Shadow, Angus & Robertson
  • 1984: Les Murray – The People's Other World, Angus & Robertson
  • 1983: Vivian Smith – Tide Country, Angus & Robertson
  • 1982: Fay Zwicky – Kaddish and Other Poems, University of Queensland Press
  • 1981: Alan Gould – Astral Sea, Angus & Robertson
  • 1980: David Campbell – Man in the Honeysuckle, Angus & Robertson

    • References

    Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry Wikipedia
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