Award Winners
| Year | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Man in the Honeysuckle | David Campbell | Angus & Robertson |
| 1981 | Astral Sea | Alan Gould | Angus & Robertson |
| 1982 | Kaddish and Other Poems | Fay Zwicky | University of Queensland Press |
| 1983 | Tide Country | Vivian Smith | Angus & Robertson |
| 1984 | The People's Other World | Les A. Murray | Angus & Robertson |
| 1985 | Your Shadow | Kevin Hart | Angus & Robertson |
| 1986 | Selected Poems 1963-83 | Robert Gray | Angus & Robertson |
| 1987 | Blood and Bone | Philip Hodgins | Angus & Robertson |
| 1988 | The Domesticity of Giraffes | Judith Beveridge | Black Lightning Press |
| 1989 | Under Berlin | John Tranter | University of Queensland Press |
| 1990 | The Clean Dark | Robert Adamson | Paper Bark Press |
| 1991 | The Winter Baby | Jennifer Maiden | Collins Angus & Robertson |
| 1992 | Selected Poems | Elizabeth Riddell | Collins Angus & Robertson |
| 1993 | Translations from the Natural World | Les A. Murray | Isabella Press |
| 1994 | Ghosting William Buckley | Barry Hill | William Heinemann Australia |
| 1995 | Coming Home From the World | Peter Boyle | Five Islands Press |
| 1996 | Weeping for Lost Babylon | Eric Beach | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Selected Poems | J. S. Harry | Penguin Books Australia | |
| 1997 | The Viewfinder | Anthony Lawrence | University of Queensland Press |
| 1999 | Race Against Time | Lee Cataldi | Penguin Books Australia |
| 2000 | Mines | Jennifer Maiden | Paper Bark Press / Australian Humanities Research Foundation |
| 2001 | Africa | Ken Taylor | Five Islands Press |
| 2002 | The Lovemakers | Alan Wearne | Penguin Books Australia |
| 2003 | Screens Jets Heaven: New and Selected Poems | Jill Jones | Salt Publishing |
| 2004 | Dear Deliria: New & Selected Poems | Pam Brown | Salt Publishing |
| 2005 | Smoke Encrypted Whispers | Samuel Wagan Watson | University of Queensland Press |
| 2006 | Latecomers | Jaya Savige | University of Queensland Press |
| 2007 | Urban Myths:210 Poems | John Tranter | University of Queensland Press |
| 2008 | Two Kinds of Silence | Kathryn Lomer | University of Queensland Press |
| 2009 | Man Wolf Man | L. K. Holt | John Leonard Press |
| 2010 | the world according to ‘m’ | Jordie Albiston | John Leonard Press |
| 2011 | Pirate Rain | Jennifer Maiden | Giramondo Publishing |
| 2012 | New and Selected Poems | Gig Ryan | Giramondo Publishing |
| 2013 | Ruby Moonlight | Ali Cobby‐Eckermann | Magabala Books |
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