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

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
Phantom Limb by David Musgrave
Patience, Mutiny by LK Holt
The Simplified World by Petra White

2000s

1990s

New and Selected Poems by Kevin Hart[11]
Flying the Coop : New and Selected Poems 1972–1994 by Rhyll McMaster
Path of Ghosts: poems 1986–93 by Jemal Sharah[12]
Empire of Grass by Gary Catalano
Peniel by Kevin Hart[11]

1980s

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

1970s

Collected Poems, 1942–1970 by Judith Wright[32]
Collected Poems 1936–1970 by James McAuley[33]

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. ^ "Toby Fitch's Rawshock wins Grace Leven Poetry Prize". Puncher & Wattmann. 23 July 2013. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  6. ^ a b c d "Austlit — Grace Leven Poetry Prize 2008-2012". Austlit. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  7. ^ a b c "Austlit — Grace Leven Poetry Prize 2005-2007". Austlit. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  8. ^ a b c "Austlit — Grace Leven Poetry Prize 2002-2004". Austlit. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  9. ^ a b "Austlit — Grace Leven Poetry Prize 1994-2001". Austlit. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  10. ^ a b c d "Austlit — Grace Leven Poetry Prize 1995-2001". Austlit. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
  11. ^ a b Kevin Hart on AustLit database
  12. ^ Jemal Sharah on Austlit database
  13. ^ a b c d "Austlit — Grace Leven Poetry Prize 1991-93". Austlit. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
  14. ^ Dorothy Hewett on the Austlit database
  15. ^ "Austlit — Under Berlin by John Tranter". Austlit. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
  16. ^ Elizabeth Riddell on the Austlit database
  17. ^ Rhyll McMaster on the Austlit database
  18. ^ "Austlit — Grave Leven prize 1985". Austlit. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
  19. ^ "Poetry Prize for Rosemary Dobson", Canberra Times, 30 October 1985, p29
  20. ^ "Austlit — Collected Poems by Peter Porter". Austlit. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
  21. ^ "Austlit — Tide Country by Vivian Smith". Austlit. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
  22. ^ "Austlit — Nero's Poems: Translations of the Public and Private Poems of the Emperor Nero by Geoffrey Lehmann". Austlit. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
  23. ^ "Austlit — The Boys Who Stole the Funeral by Les Murray". Austlit. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
  24. ^ "Austlit — The Man in the Honeysuckle by David Campbell". Austlit. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
  25. ^ "Austlit — Sometimes Gladness: Collected Poems 1954–1978 by Bruce Dawe". Austlit. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
  26. ^ Robert Adamson on the Austlit database
  27. ^ Austlit – Selected Poems 1939–1975 by John Blight
  28. ^ Austlit – Selected Poems by Gwen Harwood
  29. ^ Austlit – Neighbours in a Thicket : Poems by David Malouf
  30. ^ Austlit – A Soapbox Omnibus by Rodney Hall
  31. ^ Austlit – Head-Waters by Peter Skrzynecki
  32. ^ Austlit – Collected Poems, 1942–1970 by Judith Wright
  33. ^ Austlit – Collected Poems 1936–1970 by James McAuley
  34. ^ Austlit – Letters to Live Poets by Bruce Beaver
  35. ^ Austlit – A Counterfeit Silence: Selected Poems by Randolph Stow
  36. ^ Austlit – Selected Poems 1942–1968 by David Campbell
  37. ^ Austlit – Collected Poems 1936–1967 by Douglas Stewart
  38. ^ Austlit – The Talking Clothes : Poems by William Hart-Smith
  39. ^ Austlit – The Ilex Tree by Geoffrey Lehmann and Les Murray
  40. ^ Austlit – All the Room by David Robotham
  41. ^ Austlit – The North-Bound Rider by Ian Mudie
  42. ^ Austlit – Southmost Twelve by R. D. Fitzgerald
  43. ^ "Reading by Ipswich Poet" The Canberra Times, 7 June 1968, p14
  44. ^ Austlit – Man in a Landscape by Colin Thiele
  45. ^ Austlit – The Wind at Your Door by R. D. Fitzgerald
  46. ^ Austlit – Antipodes in Shoes by Geoffrey Dutton
  47. ^ Austlit – Elegiac and Other Poems by Leonard Mann
  48. ^ "Austlit — A Vision of Ceremony by James McAuley". Austlit. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
  49. ^ Austlit – The Wandering Islands by A.D. Hope
  50. ^ Austlit – Thirty Poems by John Thompson
  51. ^ Austlit – Tumult of the Swans by Roland Robinson
  52. ^ "Austlit — Between Two Tides by R. D. Fitzgerald". Austlit. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
  53. ^ Austlit – The Great South Land by Rex Ingamells
  54. ^ "Austlit — Grave Leven Poetry Prize". Austlit. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
  55. ^ Austlit – Woman to Man by Judith Wright
  56. ^ Austlit – A Drum for Ben Boyd by Francis Webb
  57. ^ "Strength and Sunshine" The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 February 1948, p6

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