Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry
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.
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
Cate Kennedy, The Taste of River Water[1]
- Claire Potter, Swallow
- Libby Hart, This Floating World
2012
- John Kinsella, Armour[2]
- John Mateer, Southern Barbarians
- Michelle Cahill, Vishvarupa
2013
Presented in January 2014 (see 2014 entry) for books published in 2013.
2014
- Jennifer Maiden, Liquid Nitrogen[3]
- Michael Brennan, Autoethnographic
- Brendan Ryan, Travelling Through the Family
2015
- Jill Jones, The Beautiful Anxiety[4][5]
- Susan Bradley Smith, Bed For All Who Come
- Andy Kissane, Radiance
2016
- Alan Loney, Crankhandle[6][7]
- Lucy Dougan, The Guardians
- Peter Rose, The Subject of Feeling
2017
- Maxine Beneba Clarke, Carrying the World[8][9]
- Eileen Chong, Painting Red Orchids
- Tina Giannoukos, Bull Days
2018
- Bella Li, Argosy[10]
- Jennifer Maiden, The Metronome
- Eddie Paterson, redactor
2019
- Kate Lilley, Tilt[11]
- Eunice Andrada, Flood Damages[12]
- Rae White, Milk Teeth
2020
- Charmaine Papertalk Green, Nganajungu Yagu[13]
- Louise Crisp, Yuiquimbiang[14]
- L. K. Holt, Birth Plan
2021
- David Stavanger, Case Notes[15]
- Rebecca Jessen, Ask Me About the Future[16]
- Ellen van Neerven, Throat
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This award is no longer active.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).
- Winner: Anna Kerdijk Nicholson - Possession (Five Islands Press)
- Peter Bakowski - Beneath Our Armour (Hunter Publishers)
- Ian McBryde - The Adoption Order (Five Islands Press)
- 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)
- Winner: Lisa Gorton - Press Release (Giramondo Publishing)[17]
- Judith Bishop - Event (Salt Publishing)
- Barry Hill - As We Draw Ourselves (Five Island Press)
- Winner: Judy Johnson - Jack (Pandanus Press),[18]
- Robert Adamson - The Goldfinches of Babylon (Flood Editions)
- John Watson - Montale: A Biographical Anthology (Puncher & Wattman)
- 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)
- Winner: M. T. C. Cronin - <More Or Less Than>1-100 (Shearsman Books)
- John Kinsella - Doppler Effect
- Morgan Yasbincek - Firelick
- Winner: Judith Beveridge - Wolf Notes
- Michael Brennan - The Imageless World
- Anthony Lawrence - The Sleep of a Learning Man
- 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
External links
References
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2011". Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. 2011. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
- ^ "21 big names. One big decision. Start reading". Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. 2012. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2014". Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. 2014. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
- ^ Puvanenthiran, Bhakthi (11 December 2014). "Diverse 2015 Victorian Premiers Literary Award Shortlist features itinerant novelist Ceridwan Dovey". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2015". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
- ^ "Shortlist Announced For 2016 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards". Premier of Victoria. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2016". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2017". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
- ^ "Drama Reigns As 2017 Literary Awards Announced". Premier of Victoria. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2018". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2019". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2018-12-12. Retrieved 2018-12-12.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2020". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
- ^ "2020 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2019-12-02. Retrieved 2019-12-02.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2020-12-08. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: Winners and Shortlist 2008, State Library of Victoria". web.archive.org. 2009-01-03. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
- ^ CJ Dennis Prize 2007