Grace Leven Prize for Poetry

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The Grace Leven Prize for Poetry was an annual poetry award in Australia, given in the name of Grace Leven who died in 1922. It was established by William Baylebridge who "made a provision for an annual poetry prize in memory of 'my benefactress Grace Leven' and for the publication of his own work".[1] Grace was his mother's half-sister.[2]

The award is made to "the best volume of poetry published in the preceding twelve months by a writer either Australian-born, or naturalised in Australia and resident in Australia for not less than ten years".[2] It offers only a small monetary prize, but is highly regarded by poets.[3] It was first awarded in 1947,[4] with the recipient being Nan McDonald's Pacific Sea. In 2012 the prize was awarded for the final time.[5]

Award winners[]

2010s[]

  • 2012: Joint winners[5]
Rawshock by Toby Fitch
Autoethnographic by Michael Brennan
The Collected Blue Hills by Laurie Duggan
Jaguar's Dream by John Kinsella
Another Fine Morning in Paradise by Michael Sharkey
  • 2010: Joint winners
Phantom Limb by David Musgrave
Patience, Mutiny by LK Holt
The Simplified World by Petra White

2000s[]

1990s[]

  • 1997: The Undertow: New and Selected Poems by John Kinsella
  • 1995: Joint winners
New and Selected Poems by Kevin Hart[8]
Flying the Coop : New and Selected Poems 1972–1994 by Rhyll McMaster
Path of Ghosts: poems 1986–93 by Jemal Sharah[9]
Empire of Grass by Gary Catalano
Peniel by Kevin Hart[8]

1980s[]

Selected Poems 1963–1983 by Robert Gray
The Amorous Cannibal by Chris Wallace-Crabbe

1970s[]

Collected Poems, 1942–1970 by Judith Wright[20]
Collected Poems 1936–1970 by James McAuley[21]

1960s[]

1950s[]

1940s[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Bonnin (1979)
  2. ^ a b Wilde et al (1994) p. 325
  3. ^ AusLit News April–May 2007
  4. ^ Munro & Sheahan-Bright (2006) p. 142
  5. ^ a b "Toby Fitch's Rawshock wins Grace Leven Poetry Prize". Puncher & Wattmann. 23 July 2013. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  6. ^ a b Robert Adamson on the Austlit database
  7. ^ "Stephen Edgar", Snorkel. Issue No. 7
  8. ^ a b Kevin Hart on AustLit database
  9. ^ Jemal Sharah on Austlit database
  10. ^ Dorothy Hewett on the Austlit database
  11. ^ Elizabeth Riddell on the Austlit database
  12. ^ Rhyll McMaster on the Austlit database
  13. ^ "Poetry Prize for Rosemary Dobson", Canberra Times, 30 October 1985, p29
  14. ^ Peter Porter on the Austlit database
  15. ^ Austlit – Selected Poems 1939–1975 by John Blight
  16. ^ Austlit – Selected Poems by Gwen Harwood
  17. ^ Austlit – Neighbours in a Thicket : Poems by David Malouf
  18. ^ Austlit – A Soapbox Omnibus by Rodney Hall
  19. ^ Austlit – Head-Waters by Peter Skrzynecki
  20. ^ Austlit – Collected Poems, 1942–1970 by Judith Wright
  21. ^ Austlit – Collected Poems 1936–1970 by James McAuley
  22. ^ Austlit – Letters to Live Poets by Bruce Beaver
  23. ^ Austlit – A Counterfeit Silence: Selected Poems by Randolph Stow
  24. ^ Austlit – Selected Poems 1942–1968 by David Campbell
  25. ^ Austlit – Collected Poems 1936–1967 by Douglas Stewart
  26. ^ Austlit – The Talking Clothes : Poems by William Hart-Smith
  27. ^ Austlit – The Ilex Tree by Geoffrey Lehmann and Les Murray
  28. ^ Austlit – All the Room by David Robotham
  29. ^ Austlit – The North-Bound Rider by Ian Mudie
  30. ^ Austlit – Southmost Twelve by R. D. Fitzgerald
  31. ^ "Reading by Ipswich Poet" The Canberra Times, 7 June 1968, p14
  32. ^ Austlit – Man in a Landscape by Colin Thiele
  33. ^ Austlit – The Wind at Your Door by R. D. Fitzgerald
  34. ^ Austlit – Antipodes in Shoes by Geoffrey Dutton
  35. ^ Austlit – Elegiac and Other Poems by Leonard Mann
  36. ^ Austlit – The Wandering Islands by A.D. Hope
  37. ^ Austlit – Thirty Poems by John Thompson
  38. ^ Austlit – Tumult of the Swans by Roland Robinson
  39. ^ R.D. Fitzgerald on Austlit database
  40. ^ Austlit – The Great South Land by Rex Ingamells
  41. ^ Austlit – Woman to Man by Judith Wright
  42. ^ Austlit – A Drum for Ben Boyd by Francis Webb
  43. ^ "Strength and Sunshine" The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 February 1948, p6

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