# 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
* 2011: Not awarded
* 2010: Joint winners
          Phantom Limb by David Musgrave
          Patience, Mutiny by LK Holt
          The Simplified World by Petra White

### 2000s

* 2009: Not awarded
* 2008: The Australian Popular Songbook by Alan Wearne
* 2007: The Goldfinches of Baghdad by Robert Adamson
* 2006: The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973–2003 by Alan Gould
* 2005: Next to Nothing by Noel Rowe
* 2004: Totem by Luke Davies
* 2003: Lost in the Foreground by Stephen Edgar
* 2002: Versary by Kate Lilley
* 2001: Darker and Lighter by Geoff Page
* 2000: Not awarded

### 1990s

* 1999: Not awarded
* 1998: Not awarded
* 1997: Collected Poems by Geoffrey Lehmann
* 1996: The Undertow: New and Selected Poems by John Kinsella
* 1995: Joint winners
          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
* 1994: Not awarded
* 1993: The End of the Season by Philip Hodgins
* 1992: Joint winners
          Empire of Grass by Gary Catalano
          Peniel by Kevin Hart
* 1991: Dog Fox Field by Les Murray
* 1990: Not awarded

### 1980s

* 1989: A Tremendous World in Her Head by Dorothy Hewett
* 1988: Under Berlin by John Tranter
* 1987: Occasions of Birds and Other Poems by Elizabeth Riddell
* 1986: Washing the Money : Poems with Photographs by Rhyll McMaster
* 1985: Joint winners
          Selected Poems 1963–1983 by Robert Gray
          The Amorous Cannibal by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
* 1984: The Three Fates and Other Poems by Rosemary Dobson
* 1983: Collected Poems by Peter Porter
* 1982: Tide Country by Vivian Smith
* 1981: Nero's Poems: Translations of the Public and Private Poems of the Emperor Nero by Geoffrey Lehmann
* 1980: The Boys Who Stole the Funeral by Les Murray

### 1970s

* 1979: The Man in the Honeysuckle by David Campbell
* 1978: Sometimes Gladness: Collected Poems 1954–1978 by Bruce Dawe
* 1977: Selected Poems by Robert Adamson
* 1976: Selected Poems 1939–1975 by John Blight
* 1975: Selected Poems (1975) by Gwen Harwood
* 1974: Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems by David Malouf
* 1973: A Soapbox Omnibus by Rodney Hall
* 1972: Head-Waters by Peter Skrzynecki
* 1971: Joint winners
          Collected Poems, 1942–1970 by Judith Wright
          Collected Poems 1936–1970 by James McAuley
* 1970: Letters to Live Poets by Bruce Beaver

### 1960s

* 1969: A Counterfeit Silence: Selected Poems by Randolph Stow
* 1968: Selected Poems 1942–1968 by David Campbell
* 1967: Collected Poems 1936–1967 by Douglas Stewart
* 1966: The Talking Clothes: Poems by William Hart-Smith
* 1965: The Ilex Tree by Les Murray and Geoffrey Lehmann
* 1964: All the Room by David Rowbotham
* 1963: The North-Bound Rider by Ian Mudie
* 1962: Southmost Twelve by R. D. Fitzgerald
* 1961: Time on Fire by Thomas Shapcott
* 1960: Man in a Landscape by Colin Thiele

### 1950s

* 1959: The Wind at Your Door by R. D. Fitzgerald
* 1958: Antipodes in Shoes by Geoffrey Dutton
* 1957: Elegiac and Other Poems by Leonard Mann
* 1956: A Vision of Ceremony by James McAuley
* 1955: The Wandering Islands by A. D. Hope
* 1954: Thirty Poems by John Thompson
* 1953: Tumult of the Swans by Roland Robinson
* 1952: Between Two Tides by R. D. Fitzgerald
* 1951: The Great South Land: An Epic Poem by Rex Ingamells
* 1950: No award

### 1940s

* 1949: Woman to Man by Judith Wright
* 1948: A Drum for Ben Boyd by Francis Webb
* 1947: Pacific Sea by Nan McDonald