The Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry is an annual prize awarded by the University of Newcastle to “an Australian poet, not yet 36 years of age, whose work in the field of poetry is judged to be outstanding”. It's named for T. Harri Jones, a former lecturer at the university, who died in a tragic accident in 1965. As an acknowledgement of the impact Harry made on his students between 1959 and 1965, in 2011 this prize was incorporated into the already established Newberry Poetry Prize as a special category.
Winners 2026: Mitch Cave, Against the shore and ascending 2024: Andrew Menken, Lake Days 2023: Jake Goetz, "Internal Climates" 2022: Dan Hogan, A Life of Prizes 2021: Jocelyn Deane, Haruspex 2020: Peter Ramm 2019: Caitlin Maling 2018: Chloe Wilson 2017: Joan Fleming 2016: Katie Mills 2010: 2009: Jacqueline Krynda 2008: 2007: Amanda Ireland 2006: 2005: Andrew Slattery 2004: Katie Lawrence 2003: Julian Polain 2002: Michelle A. Taylor, Angel of Barbican High (UQP) 2001: 2000: 1999: 1998: B. R. Dionysius 1997: Michael Farrell 1996: Anthony Lawrence 1993: Andy Kissane, Facing the Moon (Five Islands) 1988: Sudesh Mishra, "Rahu" 1987: Yvette Christiansë 1984: Stephen Edgar 1976: Jennifer Maiden, The Problem of Evil (Prism) 1975: Robert Harris 1973: Rhyll McMaster, The Brineshrimp (UQP) 1972: J. S. Harry, The Deer Under the Skin
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