C._J._Dennis_Prize_for_Poetry
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.
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2011 | Cate Kennedy | The Taste of River Water | Winner | [1] |
Libby Hart | This Floating World | Finalist | [1] | |
Claire Potter | Swallow | Finalist | [1] | |
2012 | John Kinsella | Armour | Winner | [2][3] |
Michelle Cahill | Vishvarupa | Finalist | [2][4] | |
John Mateer | Southern Barbarians | Finalist | [2][4] | |
2014[lower-alpha 1] | Jennifer Maiden | Liquid Nitrogen | Winner | [5] |
Michael Brennan | Autoethnographic | Finalist | [6][7] | |
Brendan Ryan | Travelling Through the Family | Finalist | [6][7] | |
2015 | Jill Jones | The Beautiful Anxiety | Winner | [8][9] |
Andy Kissane | Radiance | Finalist | [8][10][11] | |
Susan Bradley Smith | Bed For All Who Come | Finalist | [8][10][11] | |
2016 | Alan Loney | Crankhandle | Winner | [12][13] |
Lucy Dougan | The Guardians | Finalist | [14] | |
Peter Rose | The Subject of Feeling | Finalist | [14] | |
2017 | Maxine Beneba Clarke | Carrying the World | Winner | [15][16] |
Eileen Chong | Painting Red Orchids | Finalist | [15][17] | |
Tina Giannoukos | Bull Days | Finalist | [15][17] | |
2018 | Bella Li | Argosy | Winner | [18][19] |
Jennifer Maiden | The Metronome | Finalist | [18][20] | |
Eddie Paterson | redactor | Finalist | [18][20] | |
2019 | Kate Lilley | Tilt | Winner | [21][22] |
Eunice Andrada | Flood Damages | Finalist | [23][24] | |
Rae White | Milk Teeth | Finalist | [23][24] | |
2020 | Charmaine Papertalk Green | Nganajungu Yagu | Winner | [25][26] |
Louise Crisp | Yuiquimbiang | Finalist | [27] | |
L. K. Holt | Birth Plan | Finalist | [27] | |
2021 | David Stavanger | Case Notes | Winner | [28][29][30] |
Rebecca Jessen | Ask Me About the Future | Finalist | [31][32] | |
Ellen van Neerven | Throat | Finalist | [31][32] | |
2022 | Maria Takolander | Trigger Warning | Winner | [33][34] |
Maxine Beneba Clarke | How Decent Folk Behave | Finalist | [35] | |
Andy Jackson | Human Looking | Finalist | [35] | |
2023 | Gavin Yuan Gao | At the Altar of Touch | Winner | [36][37][38] |
Scott-Patrick Mitchell | Clean | Finalist | [36][39] | |
Simon Tedeschi | Fugitive | Finalist | [36][39] | |
2024 | Grace Yee | Chinese Fish | Winner | [40][41] |
Susie Anderson | the body country | Finalist | [40] | |
Claire Miranda Roberts | Kangaroo Paw | Finalist | [40] | |
This award is no longer active. It was renamed in 2011 to Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry (see above).
Year | Author | Title | Ref. | Ref. |
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1985 | Rosemary Dobson | The Three Fates | Winner | [42] |
Kevin Hart | Your Shadow | Winner | ||
1986 | Rhyll McMaster | Washing the Money | Winner | [43] |
John A. Scott | St. Clair | Winner | ||
1987 | Lily Brett | The Auschwitz Poems | Winner | [44] |
1988 | Judith Beveridge | The Domesticity of Giraffes | Winner | [45] |
1989 | Gwen Harwood | Bone Scan | Winner | [46] |
1990 | Robert Adamson | The Clean Dark | Winner | |
1991 | Jennifer Maiden | The Winter Baby | Winner | |
1992 | Robert Harris | Jane, Interlinear and Other Poems | Winner | |
1993 | Les Murray | Translations from the Natural World | Winner | |
1994 | Robert Gray | Certain Things | Winner | |
1995 | Bruce Beaver | Anima and Other Poems | Winner | |
1996 | Peter Bakowski | In the Human Night | Winner | |
1997 | Les Murray | Subhuman Redneck Poems | Winner | |
1998 | Coral Hull | Broken Land | Winner | |
1999 | Gig Ryan | Pure and Applied | Winner | |
2000 | John Millett | Iceman | Winner | |
2001 | John Mateer | Barefoot Speech | Winner | |
2002 | Robert Gray | Afterimages......syp | Winner | |
2003 | Emma Lew | Anything the Landlord Touches | Winner | |
Jordie Albiston | The Fall | Finalist | ||
S. K. Kelen | Goddess of Mercy | Finalist | ||
2004 | Judith Beveridge | Wolf Notes | Winner | |
Michael Brennan | The Imageless World | Finalist | ||
Anthony Lawrence | The Sleep of a Learning Man | Finalist | ||
2005 | M. T. C. Cronin | <More Or Less Than>1-100 | Winner | |
John Kinsella | Doppler Effect | Finalist | ||
Morgan Yasbincek | Firelick | Finalist | ||
2006 | John Tranter | Urban Myths: 210 Poems | Winner | |
B. R. Dionysius | Universal Andalusia | Finalist | ||
Susan Hampton | The Kindly Ones | Finalist | ||
2007 | Judy Johnson | Jack | Winner | [47] |
Robert Adamson | The Goldfinches of Babylon | Finalist | [48] | |
John Watson | Montale: A Biographical Anthology | Finalist | [48] | |
2008 | Lisa Gorton | Press Release | Winner | [49] |
Judith Bishop | Event | Finalist | [50] | |
Barry Hill | As We Draw Ourselves | Finalist | [50] | |
2009 | Robert Adamson | The Golden Bird | Winner | |
Carol Jenkins | Fishing in the Devonian | Finalist | [51] | |
Bronwyn Lea | The Other Way Out | Finalist | [51] | |
2010 | Anna Kerdijk Nicholson | Possession | Winner | [52] |
Peter Bakowski | Beneath Our Armour | Finalist | [53] | |
Ian McBryde | The Adoption Order | Finalist | [53] |
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