This table lists the books of poems that have won the pre-eminent national award for poetry since 1976, and their authors. Until 1996 there were two sets of awards – the Wattie (later the Goodman Fielder Wattie) Awards, which had no categories and simply awarded prizes for the top three books of the year, and the New Zealand Book Awards, which had a poetry category. In 1994 the Goodman Fielder Wattie Awards became the Montana Book Awards and a poetry category was introduced; so in 1994 and 1995 there were two sets of poetry awards. In 1996 the two awards merged as the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, which became the New Zealand Post Book Awards from 2010 to 2014. A new sponsor, property developer Ockham, was announced in 2015, and 2016 was the first year of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. The recipients are a ‘Who’s Who’ of the New Zealand poets who have had a major impact since 1976.
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Reference:
Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie (eds), Oxford companion to New Zealand literature. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp.603-605; New Zealand Book Council; New Zealand Post Book Awards
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