Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry explained

The Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry is an annual prize awarded by the University of Newcastle in Australia, to “an Australian poet, not yet 36 years of age, whose work in the field of poetry is judged to be outstanding”.^[1] The Prize is named for T. Harri Jones, a former lecturer at the university.

Winners

• 2021: Josie/Jocelyn Deane
• 2020: Peter Ramm
• 2019: Caitlin Maling
• 2018: Chloe Wilson
• 2017: Joan Fleming
• 2016: Katie Mills
• 2010:
• 2009: Jacqueline Krynda
• 2008:
• 2007: Amanda Ireland
• 2006:
• 2005: Andrew Slattery
• 2004: Katie Lawrence
• 2003: Julian Polain
• 2002: Michelle A. Taylor, Angel of Barbican High (UQP)
• 2001:
• 2000:
• 1999:
• 1998: B. R. Dionysius
• 1997: Michael Farrell
• 1996: Anthony Lawrence
• 1993: Andy Kissane, Facing the Moon (Five Islands)
• 1988: Sudesh Mishra, "Rahu"
  • 1987: Yvette Christiansë 1984: Stephen Edgar
• 1976: Jennifer Maiden, The Problem of Evil (Prism)
• 1975: Robert Harris^[2]
• 1973: Rhyll McMaster, The Brineshrimp (UQP)
• 1972: J. S. Harry, The Deer Under the Skin

Notes and References

1. Web site: History of the Prize . 2023-12-07 . Hunter Writers Centre . en.
2. Web site: Papers of Robert Harris, circa 1988-1993 [manuscript] - Catalogue National Library of Australia ]. 2023-12-07 . catalogue.nla.gov.au . en.