C.J. Dennis Prize for Poetry

The C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, for a significant selection of new work by a poet published in a book. It is named after the early twentieth century vernacular poet C. J. Dennis.

2010

 * Winner: Anna Kerdijk Nicholson - Possession (Five Islands Press)
 * Peter Bakowski - Beneath Our Armour (Hunter Publishers)
 * Ian McBryde - The Adoption Order (Five Islands Press)

2009

 * Winner: Robert Adamson - The Golden Bird (Black Inc)
 * Carol Jenkins - Fishing in the Devonian (Puncher and Wattman)
 * Bronwyn Lea - The Other Way Out (Giramondo Publishing)

2008

 * Winner: Lisa Gorton - Press (Giramondo Publishing) ,
 * Judith Bishop - Event (Salt Publishing)
 * Barry Hill - As We Draw Ourselves (Five Island Press)

2007

 * Winner: Judy Johnson - Jack (Pandanus Press) ,
 * Robert Adamson - The Goldfinches of Babylon (Flood Editions)
 * John Watson - Montale: A Biographical Anthology (Puncher & Wattman)

2006

 * Winner: John Tranter - Urban Myths: 210 Poems (UQP)
 * B. R. Dionysius - Universal Andalusia (Soi 3/Papertiger Media)
 * Susan Hampton - The Kindly Ones (Five Islands Press)

2005

 * Winner: M. T. C. Cronin - 1-100 (Shearsman Books)
 * John Kinsella - Doppler Effect
 * Morgan Yasbincek - Firelick

2004

 * Winner: Judith Beveridge - Wolf Notes
 * Michael Brennan - The Imageless World
 * Anthony Lawrence - The Sleep of a Learning Man

2003

 * Winner: Emma Lew - Anything the Landlord Touches
 * Jordie Albiston - The Fall
 * S. K. Kelen - Goddess of Mercy

Before 2003

 * 2002: Robert Gray - Afterimages......syp
 * 2001: John Mateer - Barefoot Speech
 * 2000: John Millett - Iceman
 * 1999: Gig Ryan - Pure and Applied
 * 1998: Coral Hull - Broken Land
 * 1997: Les Murray - Subhuman Redneck Poems
 * 1996: Peter Bakowski - In the Human Night
 * 1995: Bruce Beaver - Anima and Other Poems
 * 1994: Robert Gray - Certain Things
 * 1993: Les Murray - Translations from the Natural World
 * 1992: Robert Harris - Jane, Interlinear and Other Poems
 * 1991: Jennifer Maiden - The Winter Baby
 * 1990: Robert Adamson - The Clean Dark
 * 1989: Gwen Harwood - Bone Scan
 * 1988: Judith Beveridge - The Domesticity of Giraffes
 * 1987: Lily Brett - The Auschwitz Poems
 * 1986: Rhyll McMaster - Washing the Money
 * 1986: John A. Scott - St. Clair
 * 1985: Kevin Hart - Your Shadow
 * 1985: Rosemary Dobson - The Three Fates