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Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry

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The Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry, formerly known as the C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry, is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award. As of 2011 it has an enumeration of A$25,000. The winner of this category prize vies with 4 other category winners for overall Victorian Prize for Literature valued at an additional A$100,000.

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The prize was formerly known as the C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry from inception until 2010, when the awards were re-established under the stewardship of the Wheeler Centre and restarted with new prize amounts and a new name. It was named after the early twentieth century vernacular poet C. J. Dennis.

Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry

Blue ribbon () = winner.

  • 2011
  • Claire Potter, Swallow
  • Cate Kennedy, The Taste of River Water
  • Libby Hart, This Floating World
  • 2012
  • John Mateer, Southern Barbarians
  • Michelle Cahill, Vishvarupa
  • John Kinsella, Armour
  • 2013 Presented in January 2014 (see 2014 entry) for books published in 2013.
  • 2014
  • Jennifer Maiden, Liquid Nitrogen
  • Michael Brennan, Autoethnographic
  • Brendan Ryan, Travelling Through the Family
  • C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry (inactive)

    This award is no longer active. It was renamed in 2011 to Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry (see above).

    2010

  • Winner: Anna Kerdijk Nicholson - Possession (Five Islands Press)
  • Peter Bakowski - Beneath Our Armour (Hunter Publishers)
  • Ian McBryde - The Adoption Order (Five Islands Press)
  • 2009

  • Winner: Robert Adamson - The Golden Bird (Black Inc)
  • Carol Jenkins - Fishing in the Devonian (Puncher and Wattman)
  • Bronwyn Lea - The Other Way Out (Giramondo Publishing)
  • 2008

  • Winner: Lisa Gorton - Press Release (Giramondo Publishing),
  • Judith Bishop - Event (Salt Publishing)
  • Barry Hill - As We Draw Ourselves (Five Island Press)
  • 2007

  • Winner: Judy Johnson - Jack (Pandanus Press),
  • Robert Adamson - The Goldfinches of Babylon (Flood Editions)
  • John Watson - Montale: A Biographical Anthology (Puncher & Wattman)
  • 2006

  • Winner: John Tranter - Urban Myths: 210 Poems (UQP)
  • B. R. Dionysius - Universal Andalusia (Soi 3/Papertiger Media)
  • Susan Hampton - The Kindly Ones (Five Islands Press)
  • 2005

  • Winner: M. T. C. Cronin - <More Or Less Than>1-100 (Shearsman Books)
  • John Kinsella - Doppler Effect
  • Morgan Yasbincek - Firelick
  • 2004

  • Winner: Judith Beveridge - Wolf Notes
  • Michael Brennan - The Imageless World
  • Anthony Lawrence - The Sleep of a Learning Man
  • 2003

  • Winner: Emma Lew - Anything the Landlord Touches
  • Jordie Albiston - The Fall
  • S. K. Kelen - Goddess of Mercy
  • Before 2003

  • 2002: Robert Gray - Afterimages......syp
  • 2001: John Mateer - Barefoot Speech
  • 2000: John Millett - Iceman
  • 1999: Gig Ryan - Pure and Applied
  • 1998: Coral Hull - Broken Land
  • 1997: Les Murray - Subhuman Redneck Poems
  • 1996: Peter Bakowski - In the Human Night
  • 1995: Bruce Beaver - Anima and Other Poems
  • 1994: Robert Gray - Certain Things
  • 1993: Les Murray - Translations from the Natural World
  • 1992: Robert Harris - Jane, Interlinear and Other Poems
  • 1991: Jennifer Maiden - The Winter Baby
  • 1990: Robert Adamson - The Clean Dark
  • 1989: Gwen Harwood - Bone Scan
  • 1988: Judith Beveridge - The Domesticity of Giraffes
  • 1987: Lily Brett - The Auschwitz Poems
  • 1986: Rhyll McMaster - Washing the Money
  • 1986: John A. Scott - St. Clair
  • 1985: Kevin Hart - Your Shadow
  • 1985: Rosemary Dobson - The Three Fates
  • References

    Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry Wikipedia