The CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry: Judges 2003

Philip Salom (Convenor)

Philip Salom has travelled and read his work extensively in the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, 'Yugoslavia', Italy, Singapore and New Zealand. His most recent collection of poems is A Cretive Life. Of his previous collections the international prize-winning Sky Poems has been re-issued and his recent New and Selected Poems has sold out. His novel Playback has just been re-published and his new novel The Character of Rain is due out in May of 2004. His awards include the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in London, the Western Australian Premier's Prize (for Poetry and for Fiction) and the Newcastle Poetry Prize. He lectures at Melbourne and Deakin Universities.

Jennifer Harrison

Jennifer Harrison is a Melbourne child psychiatrist. As well as regularly reviewing Australian poetry, Jennifer has written three books of poetry. The first, Michelangelo's Prisoners, won the 1995 Anne Elder Award and was shortlisted for the National Book Council's Poetry Award. Her second collection, Cabramatta/Cudmirrah, was highly commended by the Poetry Book Club of Australia and her third, Dear B, was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year in 1999, NSW Premier's Award in the same year and the inaugural Judith Wright Poetry Prize. Jennifer convened the Writers at the Water Rat reading series for the Fellowship of Australian Writers between 2000 and 2001. Jennifer's poems have been exhibited in the National Gallery of Victoria. In 2003 she won the NSW Society of Women Writers Poetry Prize.

Dipti Saravanamuttu

Dipti Saravanamuttu worked as a journalist and reviewer for the Tribune newspaper and began publishing poetry when she was a student at Sydney University. She has completed two film scripts with a collective of women working on issues of racism and the migrant experience, published two books of poetry and a novel. Dipti has also taught postgraduate students at the University of London. Her next book of poetry will be published in 2004.