- Source: 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. It is named after Kenneth Slessor (1901–1971).
The prize currently comes with a A$30,000 cash award.
Winners and shortlists
= 2024
=Winner: Tais Rose Wae – Riverbed Sky Songs
Pooja Mittal Biswas – Hunger and Predation
Willo Drummond – Moon Wrasse
Libby Hart – Burn
Caitlin Maling – Spore or Seed
Omar Sakr – Non-Essential Work
= 2023
=Winner: Kim Cheng Boey – The Singer and Other Poems
Adam Aitken – Revenants
Pam Brown – Stasis Shuffle
Lisa Gorton – Miribilia
Sarah Holland-Batt – The Jaguar
Marjon Mossammaparast – And to Ecstacy
= 2022
=Winner: Dan Disney – accelerations & inertias
Eunice Andrada – TAKE CARE
Evelyn Araluen – Dropbear
Eileen Chong – A Thousand Crimson Blooms
John Kinsella – Supervivid Depastoralism
Bella Li – Theory of Colours
= 2021
=Winner: Ellen van Neerven – Throat
Jordie Albiston – Element: The Atomic Weight & Radius of Love
Rebecca Jessen – Ask Me About the Future
Jill Jones – A History of What I’ll Become
Jaya Savige – Change Machine
= 2020
=Winner: Peter Boyle – Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness
Joanne Burns – apparently
Zenobia Frost – After the Demolition
Lisa Gorton – Empirical
Natalie Harkin – Archival-Poetics
David Malouf – An Open Book
= 2019
=Winner: Judith Bishop – Interval
Michael Farrell – I Love Poetry
Penelope Layland – Things I’ve Thought To Tell You Since I Saw You Last
Philip Neilsen – Wildlife of Berlin
Mark Reid – Blindside
Chris Wallace-Crabbe – Rondo
= 2018
=Winner: Bella Li – Argosy
Adam Aitken – Archipelago
Jordie Albiston – Euclid's dog: 100 algorithmic poems
Rico Craig – Bone Ink
Nguyễn Tiên Hoàng – Captive and Temporal
Omar Sakr – These Wild Houses
= 2017
=Winner: Peter Boyle – Ghostspeaking
Paul Hetherington – Burnt Umber
Jill Jones – Breaking the Days
Antigone Kefala – Fragments
John Kinsella – Firebreaks: Poems
Ellen van Neerven – Comfort Foot
= 2016
=Winner: Joanne Burns – brush
Lionel Fogarty – Eelahroo (Long Ago), Nyah (Looking), Möbö-Möbö (Future)
Sarah Holland-Batt – The Hazards
Meredith Wattison – terra bravura
Chloe Wilson – Not Fox Nor Axe
Ouyang Yu – Fainting
= 2015
=Winner: David Malouf – Earth Hour
Michael Aiken – A Vicious Example
Judith Beveridge – Devadatta's Poems
Anne Elvey – Kin
Libby Hart – Wild
John Mateer – Unbelievers, or The Moor
= 2014
=Winner: Fiona Hile – Novelties, Hunter
Justin Clemens – The Mundiad, Hunter
Diane Fahey – The Stone Garden: poems from Clare, Clouds of Magellan
Liam Ferney – Boom, Grand Parade Poets
Kate Middleton – Ephemeral Waters, Giramondo Publishing
Jessica Wilkinson – Marionette: A biography of Miss Marion Davies, Vagabond Press
= 2013
=Winner: Ali Cobby-Eckermann – Ruby Moonlight, Magabala Books
Kate Fagan – First Light, Giramondo Publishing
Michael Farrell – Open Sesame, Giramondo Publishing
Anthony Lawrence – The Welfare of my Enemy, Puncher & Wattman
Kate Lilley – Ladylike, UWA Publishing
Vivian Smith – Here, There and Elsewhere, Giramondo Publishing
= 2012
=Winner: Gig Ryan – New and Selected Poems, Giramondo Publishing
Ken Bolton – Sly Mongoose, Puncher and Wattman
Susan Hawthorne – Cow, Spinifex Press
John Mateer – Southern Barbarians, Giramondo Publishing
Claire Potter – Swallow, Five Islands Press
Tracy Ryan – The Argument, Fremantle Press
= 2011
=Winner: Jennifer Maiden – Pirate Rain, Giramondo Publishing
Susan Bradley Smith – Supermodernprayerbook, Salt Publishing
Andy Jackson – Among The Regulars, Papertiger Media Inc
Jill Jones – Dark Bright Doors, Wakefield Press Pty
Anna Kerdijk Nicholson – Possession, Five Island Press
Andy Kissane – Out to Lunch, Puncher and Wattmann
= 2010
=Winner: Jordie Albiston – The Sonnet According to "M"
Emily Ballou – The Darwin Poems
Judith Beveridge – Storm and Honey
Emma Jones – The Striped World
Morgan Yasbincek – White Camel
= 2009
=Winner: LK Holt – Man Wolf Man, John Leonard Press.
Michael Brennan – Unanimous Night, Salt Publishing
David Brooks – The Balcony, University of Queensland Press
Sarah Holland-Batt – Aria, University of Queensland Press
Kerry Leves – A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar, Puncher & Wattman
Alan Wearne – The Australian Popular Songbook, Giramondo
= 2008
=Winner: Kathryn Lomer – Two Kinds of Silence
Joanne Burns – an illustrated history of dairies
Brook Emery – Uncommon Light
Peter Kirkpatrick – Westering
David Malouf – Typewriter Music
Phyllis Perlstone – The Edge of Everything
= 2007
=Winner: John Tranter – Urban Myths, University of Queensland Press
Robert Adamson – The Goldfinches of Baghdad, Flood Editions
Laurie Duggan – The Passenger, University of Queensland Press
Les Murray – The Biplane Houses, Black Inc.
Simon West – First Names, Puncher and Wattmann
Fay Zwicky – Picnic, Giramondo Publishing Company
= 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 or 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 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 Press
= 1999 and before
=Award 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 and J. 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 Otherworld, Angus & Robertson
1983: Vivian Smith – Tide Country, Angus & Robertson
1982: Fay Zwicky – Kaddish and Other Poems, University of Queensland Press
1981: Alan Gould – Astral Sea, Angus & Robertson
1980: David Campbell – Man in the Honeysuckle, Angus & Robertson
See also
Australian literature
List of poetry awards
List of years in poetry
List of years in literature
Notes
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
- Kenneth Slessor
- New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
- Pam Brown
- Ali Cobby Eckermann
- Sarah Holland-Batt
- Ellen van Neerven
- List of poetry awards
- 1985 in literature
- 1986 in literature
