Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry

The Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry is an annual prize awarded by the University of Newcastle to “an Australian poet, not yet 36 years of age, whose work in the field of poetry is judged to be outstanding”. It's named for T. Harri Jones, a former lecturer at the university, who died in a tragic accident in 1965. As an acknowledgement of the impact Harry made on his students between 1959 and 1965, in 2011 this prize was incorporated into the already established Newberry Poetry Prize as a special category.

Winners

2024: Andrew Menken, Lake Days2023: 2022: Dan Hogan, A Life of Prizes2021: Jocelyn Deane, Haruspex2020: Peter Ramm2019: Caitlin Maling2018: Chloe Wilson2017: Joan Fleming2016: Katie Mills2010:2009: Jacqueline Krynda2008:2007: Amanda Ireland2006:2005: Andrew Slattery2004: Katie Lawrence2003: Julian Polain2002: Michelle A. Taylor, Angel of Barbican High 2001:2000:1999:1998: B. R. Dionysius1997: Michael Farrell1996: Anthony Lawrence1993: Andy Kissane, Facing the Moon 1988: Sudesh Mishra, "Rahu"1987: Yvette Christiansë 1984: Stephen Edgar1976: Jennifer Maiden, The Problem of Evil 1975: Robert Harris1973: Rhyll McMaster, The Brineshrimp 1972: J. S. Harry, ''The Deer Under the Skin''