- 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. [http://www.arts.nsw.gov.au/awards/LiteraryAwards/LiteraryAwards.htm] New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Web page, accessedNovember 5 ,2006 ]The prize currently comes with a $15,000 (AUS) cash award.
Winners
=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
=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
=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
=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"
=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
=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
=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 Press1999 and before
Award winners: [ [http://www.arts.nsw.gov.au/awards/LiteraryAwards/2000LitAwards/PLAhistory.htm] New South Wales Ministry of Culture Web site, official list of past winners]
* 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 andJ. 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: 1980
* 1980: David Campbell - "Man in the Honeysuckle," Angus & Robertsonee also
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Australian literature
*List of poetry awards
*List of years in poetry
*List of years in literature Notes
External links
* [http://www.arts.nsw.gov.au/awards/LiteraryAwards/LiteraryAwards.htm NSW Premier's Literary Awards] home page
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