Mary Gilmore Prize

The Mary Gilmore Prize for the best first book of poetry is given to a first book of poetry from the previous two years; prior to 1998 it was awarded annually. It is conducted by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature and named after the writer and socialist Dame Mary Gilmore.

2010

 * Winner: Joanna Preston - The Summer King
 * Shortlisted: Emily Ballou - The Darwin Poems
 * Sarah Holland-Batt - Aria
 * Emma Jones - The Striped World

Before 2010

 * 2008: Nathan Shepherdson - Sweeping the Light Back Into the Mirror
 * 2006: David McCooey - Blister Pack
 * 2004: Michael Brennan - Imageless World
 * 2002: Geraldine McKenzie - Duty
 * 2000: Lucy Dougan - Memory Shell
 * 1998: Emma Lew - The Wild Reply
 * 1997: Morgan Yasbincek - Night Reversing
 * 1996: Jordie Albiston - Nervous Arcs
 * 1995: Aileen Kelly - Coming Up for Light
 * 1994: Deborah Staines - Now, Millennium
 * 1993: Jill Jones - The Mask and Jagged Star
 * 1992: Alison Croggon - This is the Stone
 * 1991: Jean Kent - Verandahs
 * 1990: Kristopher Rassemussen - In the Name of the Father
 * 1989: Alex Skovron - The Re-arrangement
 * 1988: Judith Beveridge - The Domesticity of Giraffes
 * 1987: Jan Owen - Boy with Telescope
 * 1986: Stephen Williams - A Crowd of Voices
 * 1985: Doris Brett - The Truth about Unicorns