Grace Leven Prize for Poetry

The Grace Leven Prize for Poetry is 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.

Award winners

2010s

2012: Joint winners

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

2008: The Australian Popular Songbook by Alan Wearne
2007: The Goldfinches of Baghdad by Robert Adamson[5]
2006: The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973–2003 by Alan Gould
2005: Next to Nothing by Noel Rowe
2004: Totem by Luke Davies
2003: Lost in the Foreground by Stephen Edgar[6]
2002: Versary by Kate Lilley
2001: Darker and Lighter by Geoff Page

1990s

1997: The Undertow: New and Selected Poems by John Kinsella
1995: Joint winners

New and Selected Poems by Kevin Hart[7]

Flying the Coop : New and Selected Poems 1972–1994 by Rhyll McMaster

Path of Ghosts: poems 1986–93 by Jemal Sharah[8]

1993: The End of the Season by Philip Hodgins
1992: Joint winners

Empire of Grass by Gary Catalano

Peniel by Kevin Hart[7]

1991: Dog Fox Field by Les Murray

1980s

1989: A Tremendous World in Her Head by Dorothy Hewett[9]
1988: Under Berlin by John Tranter
1987: Occasions of Birds and Other Poems by Elizabeth Riddell[10]
1986: Washing the Money : Poems with Photographs by Rhyll McMaster[11]
1985: Joint winners

Selected Poems 1963–1983 by Robert Gray

The Amorous Cannibal by Chris Wallace-Crabbe

1984: The Three Fates and Other Poems by Rosemary Dobson[12]
1983: Collected Poems by Peter Porter[13]
1982: Tide Country by Vivian Smith
1981: Nero's Poems: Translations of the Public and Private Poems of the Emperor Nero by Geoffrey Lehmann
1980: The Boys Who Stole the Funeral by Les Murray

1970s

1979: The Man in the Honeysuckle by David Campbell
1978: Sometimes Gladness : Collected Poems 1954–1978 by Bruce Dawe
1977: Selected Poems by Robert Adamson[5]
1976: Selected Poems 1939–1975 by John Blight[14]
1975: Selected Poems (1975) by Gwen Harwood[15]
1974: Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems by David Malouf[16]
1973: A Soapbox Omnibus by Rodney Hall[17]
1972: Head-Waters by Peter Skrzynecki[18]
1971: Joint winners

Collected Poems, 1942–1970 by Judith Wright[19]

Collected Poems 1936–1970 by James McAuley[20]

1970: Letters to Live Poets by Bruce Beaver[21]

Notes

References

AusLit News April–May 2007. Retrieved 17 July 2007
Bonnin, Nancy (1979) "Baylebridge, William (1883–1942)", Australian Dictionary of Biography
"Les Murray Author Page". Archived from the original on 22 June 2007. Retrieved 16 July 2007.
Munro, Craig & Sheahan-Bright, Robyn (2006). Paper Empires: A History of the Book in Australia 1946–2005. St Lucia, University of Queensland Press
"RDFitzGerald". Retrieved 16 July 2007.
Wilde, W., Hooton, J. & Andrews, B (1994) The Oxford Companion of Australian Literature 2nd ed. South Melbourne, Oxford University Press
Wyndham, Susan (30 March 2007). "'Poetic Grace' 30 March 2007". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 16 July 2007.

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[1] Bonnin (1979)

[OCAL-2] Wilde et al (1994) p. 325

[3] AusLit News April–May 2007

[4] Munro & Sheahan-Bright (2006) p. 142

[ALRA-5] Robert Adamson on the Austlit database

[6] "Stephen Edgar", Snorkel. Issue No. 7

[ALKH-7] Kevin Hart on AustLit database

[ALJS-8] Jemal Sharah on Austlit database

[ALDH-9] Dorothy Hewett on the Austlit database

[ALER-10] Elizabeth Riddell on the Austlit database

[ALRM-11] Rhyll McMaster on the Austlit database

[12] "Poetry Prize for Rosemary Dobson", Canberra Times, 30 October 1985, p29

[ALPP-13] Peter Porter on the Austlit database

[14] Austlit – Selected Poems 1939–1975 by John Blight

[15] Austlit – Selected Poems by Gwen Harwood

[16] Austlit – Neighbours in a Thicket : Poems by David Malouf

[17] Austlit – A Soapbox Omnibus by Rodney Hall

[18] Austlit – Head-Waters by Peter Skrzynecki

[19] Austlit – Collected Poems, 1942–1970 by Judith Wright

[ALJM-20] Austlit – Collected Poems 1936–1970 by James McAuley

[21] Austlit – Letters to Live Poets by Bruce Beaver

[22] Austlit – A Counterfeit Silence: Selected Poems by Randolph Stow

[23] Austlit – Selected Poems 1942–1968 by David Campbell

[24] Austlit – Collected Poems 1936–1967 by Douglas Stewart

[25] Austlit – The Talking Clothes : Poems by William Hart-Smith

[26] Austlit – The Ilex Tree by Geoffrey Lehmann and Les Murray

[27] Austlit – All the Room by David Robotham

[28] Austlit – The North-Bound Rider by Ian Mudie

[29] Austlit – Southmost Twelve by R. D. Fitzgerald

[30] "Reading by Ipswich Poet" The Canberra Time, 7 June 1968, p14

[31] Austlit – Man in a Landscape by Colin Thiele

[32] Austlit – The Wind at Your Door by R. D. Fitzgerald

[33] Austlit – Antipodes in Shoes by Geoffrey Dutton

[34] Austlit – Elegiac and Other Poems by Leonard Mann

[35] Austlit – The Wandering Islands by A.D. Hope

[36] Austlit – Thirty Poems by John Thompson

[37] Austlit – Tumult of the Swans by Roland Robinson

[ALRF-38] R.D. Fitzgerald on Austlit database

[39] Austlit – The Great South Land by Rex Ingamells

[40] Austlit – Woman to Man by Judith Wright

[41] Austlit – A Drum for Ben Boyd by Francis Webb

[42] "Strength and Sunshine" The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 February 1948, p6