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
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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
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This award is no longer active.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).
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)[17]
- Judith Bishop - Event (Salt Publishing)
- Barry Hill - As We Draw Ourselves (Five Island Press)
2007
- Winner: Judy Johnson - Jack (Pandanus Press),[18]
- 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
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