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Grace Leven Prize for Poetry

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". Grace was his mother's half-sister.

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". It offers only a small monetary prize, but is highly regarded by poets. It was first awarded in 1947, with the recipient being Nan McDonald's Pacific Sea. In 2012 the prize was awarded for the final time.

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

1980s

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

1970s

:: Collected Poems, 1942–1970 by Judith Wright
:: Collected Poems 1936–1970 by James McAuley

1960s

1950s

1940s

Notes

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