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Meanjin Poetry Prize
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
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History

A prize of ten guineas was offered for the best poem to be published in Meanjin on that same year.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 1960

winner `I Am the Captain of My Soul' i "But the Captain is drunk, and the crew", Gwen Harwood , 1960 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , March vol. 19 no. 1 1960; (p. 49) Poems [Volume 1] 1963; (p. 51-52) Selected Poems [1975] 1975; (p. 21-22) The Golden Apples of the Sun : Twentieth Century Australian Poetry 1980; (p. 112-113) Selected Poems [1985] 1985; (p. 21-22) The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets 1986; (p. 99)

Year: 1959

Caro Autem Infirma i "Often I wake in darkness", Gwen Harwood , 1959 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , April vol. 18 no. 1 1959; (p. 31) Poems [Volume 1] 1963; (p. 59-60) Twelve Poets, 1950-1970 1971; (p. 121-122) Selected Poems [1975] 1975; (p. 23-24) Selected Poems [1985] 1985; (p. 23-24) Selected Poems [1990] 1990; (p. 23-24)
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