Grace Leven Prize for Poetry

The Grace Leven Prize for Poetry is an annual award given in the name of Grace Leven who died in 1922. It was established by William Baylebridge who "made a provision for an annual poetry prize in memory of 'my benefactress Grace Leven' and for the publication of his own work". [Bonnin (1979) ] Grace was his mother's half-sister.Wilde et al (1994) p. 325, p. 325]

The award is made to "the best volume of poetry published in the preceding twelve months by a writer either Australian-born, or naturalised in Australia and resident in Australia for not less than ten years". It offers only a small monetary prize, but is highly regarded by poets. [AusLit News April-May 2007]

It was first awarded in 1947, with the recipient being Nan McDonald's "Pacific Sea".

Winners

*2007: "The Goldfinches of Baghdad" by Robert Adamson
*2006: "The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973-2003" by Alan Gould
*2004: "Totem" by Luke Davies
*2002: "Versary" by Kate Lilley
*2001: "Darker and Lighter" by Geoff Page
*1997: "The Undertow: New and Selected Poems" by John Kinsella
*1995: "New and Selected Poems" by Kevin Hart [http://www.austlit.edu.au AustLit database] ]
*1993: "The End of the Season" by Philip Hodgins
*1992: Joint winners::: "Empire of Grass" by Gary Catalano::: "Peniel" by Kevin Hart
*1990: "Dog Fox Field" by Les Murray
*1988: "Under Berlin" by John Tranter
*1987: "A Tremendous World in Her Head" by Dorothy Hewett
*1986: Chris Wallace-Crabbe
*1985: Joint winners::: "Selected poems 1963-1983" by Robert Gray
*1984: "The Three Fates and Other Poems" by Rosemary Dobson
*1982: "Tide Country" by Vivian Smith (or 1983?)
*1981 "Nero's Poems: Translations of the Public and Private Poems of the Emperor Nero" by Geoffrey Lehmann
*1980: "The Boys Who Stole the Funeral" by Les Murray
*1979: "The Man in the Honeysuckle" by David Campbell
*1978: Bruce Dawe
*1977: "Selected Poems 1939–1975" by John Blight
*1976: "Selected Poems" by Robert Adamson
*1975: Gwen Harwood
*1974: David Malouf
*1973: "A Soapbox Omnibus" by Rodney Hall
*1972: "Head-waters" by Peter Skrzynecki
*1972: Judith Wright
*1970: "Letters to Live Poets" by Bruce Beaver
*1969: Randolph Stow
*1968: "Selected Poems 1942-1968" by David Campbell
*1967: "Collected Poems 1936-1967" by Douglas Stewart
*1966: "The Talking Clothes: Poems" by William Hart-Smith
*1965: "The Ilex Tree" by Les Murray and Geoffrey Lehmann
*1964: "All the Room" by David Rowbotham
*1963: "The North-Bound Rider" by Ian Mudie
*1962: "South-most Tree" by R. D. Fitzgerald
*1961: "Time on Fire" by Thomas Shapcott
*1960: Colin Thiele
*1959: "The Wind at Your Door : a Poem" by R. D. Fitzgerald
*1958: "Antipodes in Shoes" by Geoffrey Dutton
*1957: "Elegaic and Other Poems" by Leonard Mann
*1956: "The Wandering Islands" by A. D. Hope (or 1955?)
*1954: "Thirty Poems" by John Thompson
*1953: "Tumult of the Swans" by Roland Robinson
*1952: "Between Two Tides" by R. D. Fitzgerald
*1951: "The Great South Land" by Rex Ingamells
*1949: "Woman to Man" by Judith Wright (or 1950??)
*1948: "A Drum for Ben Boyd" by Francis Webb
*1947: "Pacific Sea" by Nan McDonald

Other winners: Margaret Scott

Notes

References

* [http://www.austlit.edu.au/news/newsAprilMay2007 AusLit News April-May 2007] Accessed: 17 July 2007
* [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070217b.htm Bonnin, Nancy (1979) "Baylebridge, William (1883 - 1942)", Australian Dictionary of Biography]
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* Wilde, W., Hooton, J. & Andrews, B (1994) "The Oxford Companion of Australian Literature" 2nd ed. South Melbourne, Oxford University Press
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