Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry

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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.

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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

Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry winners and finalists
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
2011 Cate Kennedy The Taste of River WaterWinner [1]
Libby Hart This Floating WorldFinalist [1]
Claire Potter SwallowFinalist [1]
2012 John Kinsella ArmourWinner [2] [3]
Michelle Cahill VishvarupaFinalist [2] [4]
John Mateer Southern BarbariansFinalist [2] [4]
2014 [lower-alpha 1] Jennifer Maiden Liquid NitrogenWinner [5]
Michael Brennan AutoethnographicFinalist [6] [7]
Brendan Ryan Travelling Through the FamilyFinalist [6] [7]
2015 Jill Jones The Beautiful AnxietyWinner [8] [9]
Andy Kissane RadianceFinalist [8] [10] [11]
Susan Bradley Smith Bed For All Who ComeFinalist [8] [10] [11]
2016 Alan Loney CrankhandleWinner [12] [13]
Lucy Dougan The GuardiansFinalist [14]
Peter Rose The Subject of FeelingFinalist [14]
2017 Maxine Beneba Clarke Carrying the WorldWinner [15] [16]
Eileen Chong Painting Red OrchidsFinalist [15] [17]
Tina Giannoukos Bull DaysFinalist [15] [17]
2018 Bella Li ArgosyWinner [18] [19]
Jennifer Maiden The MetronomeFinalist [18] [20]
Eddie Paterson redactorFinalist [18] [20]
2019 Kate Lilley TiltWinner [21] [22]
Eunice Andrada Flood DamagesFinalist [23] [24]
Rae White Milk TeethFinalist [23] [24]
2020 Charmaine Papertalk Green Nganajungu YaguWinner [25] [26]
Louise Crisp YuiquimbiangFinalist [27]
L. K. Holt Birth PlanFinalist [27]
2021 David Stavanger Case NotesWinner [28] [29] [30]
Rebecca Jessen Ask Me About the FutureFinalist [31] [32]
Ellen van Neerven ThroatFinalist [31] [32]
2022 Maria Takolander Trigger WarningWinner [33] [34]
Maxine Beneba Clarke How Decent Folk BehaveFinalist [35]
Andy Jackson Human LookingFinalist [35]
2023 Gavin Yuan Gao At the Altar of TouchWinner [36] [37] [38]
Scott-Patrick Mitchell CleanFinalist [36] [39]
Simon Tedeschi FugitiveFinalist [36] [39]
2024 Grace Yee Chinese FishWinner [40] [41]
Susie Anderson the body countryFinalist [40]
Claire Miranda Roberts Kangaroo PawFinalist [40]

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).

C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry winners and finalists
YearAuthorTitleRef.Ref.
1985 Rosemary Dobson The Three Fates Winner [42]
Kevin Hart Your ShadowWinner [42]
1986 Rhyll McMaster Washing the MoneyWinner [43]
John A. Scott St. ClairWinner [43]
1987 Lily Brett The Auschwitz PoemsWinner [44]
1988 Judith Beveridge The Domesticity of Giraffes Winner [45]
1989 Gwen Harwood Bone ScanWinner [46]
1990 Robert Adamson The Clean DarkWinner
1991 Jennifer Maiden The Winter BabyWinner
1992 Robert Harris Jane, Interlinear and Other PoemsWinner
1993 Les Murray Translations from the Natural WorldWinner
1994 Robert Gray Certain ThingsWinner
1995 Bruce Beaver Anima and Other PoemsWinner
1996 Peter Bakowski In the Human NightWinner
1997 Les Murray Subhuman Redneck Poems Winner [47]
1998 Coral Hull Broken LandWinner
1999 Gig Ryan Pure and AppliedWinner
2000 John Millett IcemanWinner
2001 John Mateer Barefoot SpeechWinner
2002 Robert Gray Afterimages......sypWinner
2003 Emma Lew Anything the Landlord TouchesWinner
Jordie Albiston The FallFinalist
S. K. Kelen Goddess of MercyFinalist
2004 Judith Beveridge Wolf NotesWinner
Michael Brennan The Imageless WorldFinalist
Anthony Lawrence The Sleep of a Learning ManFinalist
2005 M. T. C. Cronin <More Or Less Than>1-100Winner
John Kinsella Doppler EffectFinalist
Morgan Yasbincek FirelickFinalist
2006 John Tranter Urban Myths: 210 PoemsWinner
B. R. Dionysius Universal AndalusiaFinalist
Susan Hampton The Kindly OnesFinalist
2007 Judy Johnson JackWinner [48]
Robert Adamson The Goldfinches of BabylonFinalist [49]
John Watson Montale: A Biographical AnthologyFinalist [49]
2008 Lisa Gorton Press ReleaseWinner [50]
Judith Bishop EventFinalist [51]
Barry Hill As We Draw OurselvesFinalist [51]
2009 Robert Adamson The Golden BirdWinner
Carol Jenkins Fishing in the DevonianFinalist [52]
Bronwyn Lea The Other Way OutFinalist [52]
2010 Anna Kerdijk Nicholson PossessionWinner [53]
Peter Bakowski Beneath Our ArmourFinalist [54]
Ian McBryde The Adoption OrderFinalist [54]

Notes

  1. ↑ Prior to 2014, the award year was directly related to the year of publication. In 2014, the award year referred to books published in the previous year. That is, in 2012, the award went to books published in 2012. In 2014, the award went to books published in 2013.

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