The CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry: Judges 2007

Chris Wallace-Crabbe (Convenor)

Chris Wallace-Crabbe is a Melbourne poet and essayist. He has produced 16 volumes of poetry, a novel and numerous prose works. His recent books have included 'postmodern epic' The Universe Looks Down and the Dante translation The Flowery Meadow. He is based at The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne.

Ellen Koshland

Ellen Koshland is the founder and president of the Education Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation that seeks to stimulate new thinking about public education in Australia and fund innovative student projects in government schools. Originally from the United States, she has lived in Australia since 1973. She is a graduate of Princeton University and an author of a children’s book and an historical chronicle.

Emma Lew

Emma Lew's two books of poems have netted her a number of awards, including the Age Poetry Book of the Year in 1997, and the Victorian and Queensland Premier's prizes for poetry in 2003.  She lives in Melbourne.