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 25,000. The winner of this category prize vies with 4 other category winners for overall Victorian Prize for Literature valued at an additional 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 +Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry winners and finalistsYearAuthorTitleResultRef.2011WinnerThis Floating WorldFinalistSwallowFinalist2012ArmourWinnerVishvarupaFinalistSouthern BarbariansFinalist 2013 Not awarded2014Liquid NitrogenWinnerAutoethnographicFinalistTravelling Through the FamilyFinalist2015WinnerRadianceFinalistBed For All Who ComeFinalist2016CrankhandleWinnerFinalistFinalist2017Carrying the WorldWinnerPainting Red OrchidsFinalistBull DaysFinalist2018ArgosyWinnerFinalistredactorFinalist2019TiltWinnerFlood DamagesFinalistMilk TeethFinalist2020Nganajungu YaguWinnerYuiquimbiangFinalistBirth PlanFinalist2021Case NotesWinnerAsk Me About the FutureFinalistThroatFinalist2022Trigger WarningWinnerHow Decent Folk BehaveFinalistHuman LookingFinalist2023At the Altar of TouchWinnerCleanFinalistFugitiveFinalist2024Chinese FishWinnerthe body countryFinalistKangaroo PawFinalist2025Gawimarra: GatheringWinnerHolocene PointbreaksFinalistrock flightFinalist2026KONTRAWinnerThe RotFinalistTwo Hundred Million MusketeersFinalist

C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry (inactive) - Winners and shortlists This award is no longer active. It was renamed in 2011 to Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry (see above).

1985–1989 YearAuthorTitleRef.Ref.1985 The Three Fates & Other Poems Winner Your Shadow Winner 1986 Washing the Money : Poems with Photographs Winner St. Clair Winner Peter Kocan Freedom to Breathe Finalist Shelton Lea Poems from a Peach Melba Hat Finalist 1987The Auschwitz PoemsWinner Jas Duke Poems of War and Peace Finalist Alan Wearne The Nightmarkets Finalist 1988The Domesticity of GiraffesWinner Diane Fahey Metamorphoses Finalist Dimitris Tsaloumas Falcon Drinking Finalist 1989 Bone Scan Winner John Scott Singles: Shorter Poems, 1982-1986 Finalist John Tranter Under Berlin Finalist

1990–1999 YearAuthorTitleRef.Ref.1990 The Clean Dark Winner Lily Brett After the War Finalist Fay Zwicky Ask Me Finalist 1991 The Winter Baby Winner Ken Bolton Two Poems : A Drawing of the Sky Finalist Gig Ryan Excavation Finalist 1992 Jane, Interlinear and Other Poems Winner Mudrooroo The Garden of Gethsemane : Poems from the Lost Decade Finalist Norman Talbot Four Zoas of Australia Finalist 1993 Translations from the Natural World Winner Kate Jennings Cats, Dogs & Pitchforks Finalist Philip Salom Feeding the Ghost Finalist 1994 Certain Things Winner Rhyll McMaster On My Empty Feet Finalist Peter Rose The Catullan Rag Finalist 1995 Anima and Other Poems Winner Aileen Kelly Coming Up for Light Finalist Peter Porter Millennial Fables Finalist 1996 In the Human Night Winner Lionel Fogarty New and Selected Poems Finalist J. S. Harry Selected Poems Finalist 1997 Subhuman Redneck Poems Winner Judith Beveridge Accidental Grace Finalist Peter Porter Dragons in Their Pleasant Palaces Finalist1998 Broken Land Winner Fay Zwicky The Gatekeeper's Wife Finalist 1999 Pure and Applied Winner M. T. C. Cronin The World Beyond the Fig Finalist Philip Salom New and Selected Poems Finalist

2000–2010 YearAuthorTitleRef.Ref.2000 Iceman Winner Alex Skovron Infinite City Finalist Peter Steele Invisible Riders Finalist 2001 Barefoot Speech Winner Robert Adamson Mulberry Leaves: New and Selected Poems Finalist Rosemary Dobson Untold Lives and Later Poems Finalist 2002 Afterimages Winner Tracy Ryan Hothouse Finalist Chris Wallace-Crabbe By and Large Finalist 2003 Anything the Landlord Touches Winner Finalist Goddess of Mercy Finalist 2004 Wolf Notes Winner Finalist Finalist 2005 <More Or Less Than>1-100 Winner Doppler Effect Finalist Firelick Finalist 2006 Urban Myths: 210 Poems Winner Universal Andalusia Finalist Finalist 2007JackWinnerFinalistMontale: A Biographical AnthologyFinalist2008Press ReleaseWinnerEventFinalistAs We Draw OurselvesFinalist2009WinnerFishing in the DevonianFinalistFinalist2010PossessionWinnerBeneath Our ArmourFinalistFinalist

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