TheKenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of theNew South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form.^[1] It is named afterKenneth Slessor (1901–1971).

The prize currently comes with aA$30,000 cash award.^[1]

• Winner: Hasib Hourani –rock flight^[2]
• Chris Andrews –The Oblong Plot^[3]
• Nam Le –36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem
• Jeanine Leane –Gawimarra: Gathering
• Kate Middleton –Television

• Winner: Tais Rose Wae –Riverbed Sky Songs^[4]
• Pooja Mittal Biswas –Hunger and Predation^[5]
• Willo Drummond –Moon Wrasse
• Libby Hart –Burn
• Caitlin Maling –Spore or Seed
• Omar Sakr –Non-Essential Work

• Winner:Kim Cheng Boey –The Singer and Other Poems^[6]
• Adam Aitken –Revenants
• Pam Brown –Stasis Shuffle
• Lisa Gorton –Miribilia
• Sarah Holland-Batt –The Jaguar
• Marjon Mossammaparast –And to Ecstacy

• Winner:Dan Disney –accelerations & inertias^[7]
• Eunice Andrada –Take Care^[8]
• Evelyn Araluen –Dropbear
• Eileen Chong –A Thousand Crimson Blooms
• John Kinsella –Supervivid Depastoralism
• Bella Li –Theory of Colours

• Winner:Ellen van Neerven –Throat^[9][10]
• Jordie Albiston –Element: The Atomic Weight & Radius of Love ^[11]
• Rebecca Jessen –Ask Me About the Future
• Jill Jones –A History of What I’ll Become
• Jaya Savige –Change Machine 

• Winner:Peter Boyle –Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness^[12][13]
• Joanne Burns –apparently
• Zenobia Frost –After the Demolition
• Lisa Gorton –Empirical
• Natalie Harkin –Archival-Poetics
• David Malouf –An Open Book

• Winner:Judith Bishop –Interval^[14][15]
• Michael Farrell –I Love Poetry
• Penelope Layland –Things I’ve Thought To Tell You Since I Saw You Last
• Philip Neilsen –Wildlife of Berlin
• Mark Reid –Blindside
• Chris Wallace-Crabbe –Rondo

• Winner:Bella Li –Argosy^[16]
• Adam Aitken –Archipelago
• Jordie Albiston –Euclid's dog: 100 algorithmic poems
• Rico Craig –Bone Ink
• Nguyễn Tiên Hoàng –Captive and Temporal
• Omar Sakr –These Wild Houses

• Winner:Peter Boyle –Ghostspeaking^[17]
• Paul Hetherington –Burnt Umber
• Jill Jones –Breaking the Days
• Antigone Kefala –Fragments
• John Kinsella –Firebreaks: Poems
• Ellen van Neerven –Comfort Foot

• Winner:Joanne Burns –brush^[18]
• Lionel Fogarty –Eelahroo (Long Ago), Nyah (Looking), Möbö-Möbö (Future)
• Sarah Holland-Batt –The Hazards
• Meredith Wattison –terra bravura
• Chloe Wilson –Not Fox Nor Axe
• Ouyang Yu –Fainting

• Winner:David Malouf –Earth Hour^[19]
• Michael Aiken –A Vicious Example
• Judith Beveridge –Devadatta's Poems
• Anne Elvey –Kin
• Libby Hart –Wild
• John Mateer –Unbelievers, or The Moor

• Winner:Fiona Hile –Novelties, Hunter^[20]
• Justin Clemens –The Mundiad, Hunter
• Diane Fahey –The Stone Garden: poems from Clare, Clouds of Magellan
• Liam Ferney –Boom, Grand Parade Poets
• Kate Middleton –Ephemeral Waters, Giramondo Publishing
• Jessica Wilkinson –Marionette: A biography of Miss Marion Davies, Vagabond Press

• Winner:Ali Cobby Eckermann –Ruby Moonlight, Magabala Books^[21]
• Kate Fagan –First Light, Giramondo Publishing
• Michael Farrell –Open Sesame, Giramondo Publishing
• Anthony Lawrence –The Welfare of my Enemy, Puncher & Wattman
• Kate Lilley –Ladylike, UWA Publishing
• Vivian Smith –Here, There and Elsewhere, Giramondo Publishing

• Winner:Gig Ryan –New and Selected Poems, Giramondo Publishing^[22]
• Ken Bolton –Sly Mongoose, Puncher and Wattman
• Susan Hawthorne –Cow, Spinifex Press
• John Mateer –Southern Barbarians, Giramondo Publishing
• Claire Potter –Swallow, Five Islands Press
• Tracy Ryan –The Argument, Fremantle Press

• Winner:Jennifer Maiden –Pirate Rain, Giramondo Publishing^[23]
• Susan Bradley Smith –Supermodernprayerbook, Salt Publishing
• Andy Jackson –Among The Regulars, Papertiger Media Inc
• Jill Jones –Dark Bright Doors, Wakefield Press Pty
• Anna Kerdijk Nicholson –Possession, Five Island Press
• Andy Kissane –Out to Lunch, Puncher and Wattmann

• Winner:Jordie Albiston –The Sonnet According to "M"^[24]
• Emily Ballou –The Darwin Poems
• Judith Beveridge –Storm and Honey
• Emma Jones –The Striped World
• Morgan Yasbincek –White Camel

• Winner:LK Holt –Man Wolf Man, John Leonard Press.^[25]
• Michael Brennan –Unanimous Night, Salt Publishing
• David Brooks –The Balcony, University of Queensland Press
• Sarah Holland-Batt –Aria, University of Queensland Press
• Kerry Leves –A Shrine To Lata Mangeshkar, Puncher & Wattman
• Alan Wearne –The Australian Popular Songbook, Giramondo

• Winner:Kathryn Lomer –Two Kinds of Silence^[26]
• Joanne Burns –an illustrated history of dairies
• Brook Emery –Uncommon Light
• Peter Kirkpatrick –Westering
• David Malouf –Typewriter Music
• Phyllis Perlstone –The Edge of Everything

• Winner:John Tranter –Urban Myths, University of Queensland Press^[27]
• Robert Adamson –The Goldfinches of Baghdad, Flood Editions
• Laurie Duggan –The Passenger, University of Queensland Press
• Les Murray –The Biplane Houses, Black Inc.
• Simon West –First Names, Puncher and Wattmann
• Fay Zwicky –Picnic, Giramondo Publishing Company

• Winner:Jaya Savige –Latecomers, University of Queensland Press.^[28]
• Aidan Coleman –Avenues & Runways, Brandl & Schlesinger
• Susan Hampton –The Kindly Ones, Five Islands Press
• Jill Jones –Broken/Open, Salt Publishing
• Penelope Layland –Suburban Anatomy, Pandanus Books
• David McCooey –Blister Pack, Salt Publishing

• Winner:Samuel Wagan Watson –Smoke Encrypted Whispers, University of Queensland Press^[29]
• M. T. C. Cronin –< More or Less Than> 1–100, Shearsman Books Ltd
• Lidija Cvetkovic –War is Not the Season for Figs, University of Queensland Press
• John Kinsella –Doppler Effect, Salt Publishing
• Dipti Saravanamuttu –The Colosseum, Five Islands Press
• Alan Wearne –The Lovemakers Book Two: Money and Nothing, ABC Books

• Winner:Pam Brown –Dear Deliria: New & Selected Poems, Salt Publishing^[30]
• Jordie Albiston –The Fall, White Crane Press
• M. T. C. Cronin –beautiful, unfinished Salt Publishing
• Brook Emery –Misplaced Heart, Five Islands Press
• Philip Hammial –In the Year of Our Lord Slaughter's Children, Island Press
• John Tranter –Studio Moon, Salt Publishing

• Winner:Jill Jones –Screens Jets Heaven^[31]
• Alison Croggon –Attempts at Being
• Kate Lilley –Versary
• Emma Lew –Anything the Landlord Touches
• Sarah Day –New and Selected Poems
• Robert Gray –Afterimages

• Winner:Alan Wearne –The Lovemakers, Penguin Books Australia^[32]
• Robert Adamson –Mulberry Leaves: New & Selected Poems: 1970–2001, Paper Bark Press
• Martin Harrison –Summer, Paper Bark Press
• Dorothy Hewett –Halfway Up the Mountain, Fremantle Arts Centre Press
• Bronwyn Lea –Flight Animals, University of Queensland Press
• Gig Ryan –Heroic Money, Brandl & Schlesinger
• John Tranter –Ultra, Brandl & Schlesinger

• Winner:Ken Taylor –Africa, Five Islands Press^[33]
• Jennifer Compton –Blue, Ginninderra Press
• Brook Emery –and dug my fingers in the sand, Five Islands Press
• Philip Hammial –Bread, Black Pepper
• J. S. Harry –Sun Shadow, Moon Shadow, Vagabond Press
• Wendy Jenkins –Rogue Equations, Fremantle Arts Centre Press

• Winner:Jennifer Maiden –Mines, Paper Bark Press/Australian Humanities Research Foundation^[34]
• Richard James Allen –Thursday's Fictions, Five Islands Press
• M. T. C. Cronin –Everything Holy, Balcones International Press
• Jennifer Harrison –Dear B, Black Pepper
• Kevin Hart –Wicked Heat, Paper Bark Press
• John Millett –Iceman, Five Islands Press

Award winners:^[35]

• 1999:Lee Cataldi –Race Against Time, Penguin Books Australia
• 1998:no awards were presented
• 1997:Anthony Lawrence –The Viewfinder, University of Queensland Press
• 1996:Eric Beach –Weeping for Lost Babylon, HarperCollins andJ. S. Harry –Selected Poems, Penguin Books Australia
• 1995:Peter Boyle –Coming Home From the World, Five Islands Press
• 1994:Barry Hill –Ghosting William Buckley, William Heinemann Australia
• 1993:Les Murray –Translations from the Natural World, Isabella Press
• 1992:Elizabeth Riddell –Selected Poems, Collins Angus & Robertson
• 1991:Jennifer Maiden –The Winter Baby, Collins Angus & Robertson
• 1990:Robert Adamson –The Clean Dark, Paper Bark Press
• 1989:John Tranter –Under Berlin, University of Queensland Press
• 1988:Judith Beveridge –The Domesticity of Giraffes, Black Lightning Press
• 1987:Philip Hodgins –Blood and Bone, Angus & Robertson
• 1986:Robert Gray –Selected Poems 1963-1983, Angus & Robertson^[36]
• 1985:Kevin Hart –Your Shadow, Angus & Robertson
• 1984:Les Murray –The People's Otherworld : Poems, Angus & Robertson^[37]
• 1983:Vivian Smith –Tide Country, Angus & Robertson^[38]
• 1982:Fay Zwicky –Kaddish and Other Poems, University of Queensland Press^[39]
• 1981:Alan Gould –Astral Sea, Angus & Robertson^[40]
• 1980:David Campbell –The Man in the Honeysuckle, Angus & Robertson^[41]

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