Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
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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.[1]
The prize currently comes with a $15,000 (AUS) cash award.[1]
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[edit] Winners
[edit] 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
[edit] 2005
- Winner: Samuel Wagan Watson - Smoke Encrypted Whispers, University of Queensland Press
- M. T. C. Cronin - < More of 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
[edit] 2004
- Winner: Pam Brown - Dear Deliria: New & Selected Poems, Salt Publishing
- Jordie Albiston - The Fall, White Crane Press
- M. T. C. Cronin - beautiful, unfinished -PARABLE/SONG/CANTO/POEM, 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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 in literature|1980]]
- 1980: David Campbell - Man in the Honeysuckle, Angus & Robertson
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b [1] New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Web page, accessed November 5, 2006
- ^ [2]New South Wales Ministry of Culture Web site, official list of past winners
[edit] External links
- NSW Premier's Literary Awards home page
