Awarded for a first book of poetry published in the preceding two calendar years (until 1998 it was for a first book published in the preceding calendar year). No nominations are required, but judges are grateful for notifications of eligible books.

The winner of the 2010 Mary Gilmore Prize is Joanna Preston, The Summer King (Otago University Press).

See the Judges’ Report for the 2010 Mary Gilmore Prize.

The judging panel for this year’s award was Denis Haskell (Chair), Alison Bartlett and Andrew Taylor.

Previous Award Winners

2008	Nathan Shepherdson for Sweeping the Light Back into the Mirror UQP
2006	David McCooey for Blister Pack Salt Publishing
2004	Michael Brennan The Imageless World Salt Publishing
2002	Geraldine McKenzie for Duty Paperbark Press
2000	Lucy Dougan for Memory Shell Five Islands Press
1998	Emma Lew for The Wild Reply Black Pepper Press
1997	Morgan Yasbincek for Night Reversing Fremantle Arts Centre Press
1996	Jordie Albiston for Nervous Arcs Spinifex Press
1995	Aileen Kelly for Coming Up for Light Pariah Press
1994	Deborah Staines for Now, Millennium Spinifex Press
1993	Jill Jones for The Mask and Jagged Star Hazard Poets
1992	Alison Croggon for This is the Stone Penguin
1991	Jean Kent for Verandahs Hale and Iremonger
1990	Kristopher Rassemussen for In the Name of the Father False Frontiers
1989	Alex Skovron for The Re-arrangement MUP
1988	Judith Beveridge for The Domesticity of Giraffes Black Lightning Press
1987	Jan Owen for Boy with Telescope A and R
1986	Stephen Williams for A Crowd of Voices Pariah Press
1985	Doris Brett for The Truth about Unicorns