Robert Gray

Robert Gray is a poet who, in Les Murray’s words, has "the best eye in Australian poetry".

His work is noted for its accessibility and imagistic precision. The poems frequently explore the details of particular landscapes and the human figures inhabiting them, as well as reminiscences from Gray’s childhood.

Afterimages won the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, the C J Dennis Prize for Poetry and the Age Book of the Year Award’s Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize in 2002. Certain Things won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award’s C.J. Dennis Prize for Poetry in 1994.

Selected Poems 1963-1983 – won the Grace Leven Poetry Prize in 1985, the Festival Awards for Literature (SA), John Bray Award for Poetry in 1986, and was joint winner of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Poetry in 1986.

Gray also received the prestigious Patrick White Award in 1994.

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