Victorian Premier's 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.

Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry

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Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry winners and finalists
Year Author Title Result Ref.
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[a] 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]

C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry (inactive)

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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
Year Author Title Ref. Ref.
1985 Rosemary Dobson The Three Fates Winner [42]
Kevin Hart Your Shadow Winner [42]
1986 Rhyll McMaster Washing the Money Winner [43]
John A. Scott St. Clair Winner [43]
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 [47]
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 [48]
Robert Adamson The Goldfinches of Babylon Finalist [49]
John Watson Montale: A Biographical Anthology Finalist [49]
2008 Lisa Gorton Press Release Winner [50]
Judith Bishop Event Finalist [51]
Barry Hill As We Draw Ourselves Finalist [51]
2009 Robert Adamson The Golden Bird Winner
Carol Jenkins Fishing in the Devonian Finalist [52]
Bronwyn Lea The Other Way Out Finalist [52]
2010 Anna Kerdijk Nicholson Possession Winner [53]
Peter Bakowski Beneath Our Armour Finalist [54]
Ian McBryde The Adoption Order Finalist [54]
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Notes

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  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.

References

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