John Bray Poetry Award

The John Bray Poetry Award is awarded annually as part of the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, for a significant selection of new work by a poet published in a book. The award is named after the late Dr John Bray for his services to Australian poetry.

Presently the prize is $15,000.

2009

 * Winner: Bronwyn Lea - The Other Way Out (Giramondo Publishing)
 * Adam Aitkin - Eighth Habitation (Giramondo Publishing)
 * Pam Brown - True Thoughts (Salt Publishing)
 * Martin Harrison - Wild Bees: New and Selected Poems (University of Western Australia Press)
 * Emma Jones (poet) - The Striped World (Faber and Faber)
 * Martin Langford - The Human Project: New and Selected Poems (Puncher & Wattmann Poetry)