Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
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.[1] It is named after Kenneth Slessor (1901–1971).
The prize currently comes with a A$30,000 cash award.[1]
Winners and Shortlists
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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:[2]
- 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
See also
Notes
- ^ a b New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Web page, accessed November 5, 2006
- ^ New South Wales Ministry of Culture Web site, official list of past winners