Cirrus@Austlit

'This prize was funded in 1992 by donations from friends, colleagues and former students of Professor Dame Leonie Kramer, who retired in 1989 from the position of Professor of Australian Literature at the University. Awarded annually on the recommendation of the Professor of Australian Literature or, in the absence of the Professor, on the recommendation of the Chair of the department of English, to the postgraduate student in the Department of English writing the best thesis or long essay on an aspect of Australian poetry, or, should no postgraduate thesis or essay of sufficient merit be presented, to the student writing the best long essay on an aspect of Australian poetry in either Australian Literature IV or English IV. The prize will not be awarded on more than one occasion to the same student.' (Source :

http://sydney.edu.au/arts/slam/prizes/index.shtml )