The Kathleen Grattan Award is a prestigious poetry prize for an original collection of poems or a long poem by a New Zealand or Pacific resident or citizen.
[1][2] It is named after Kathleen Grattan, an Auckland poet, journalist and former editor of the New Zealand Woman's Weekly.
Her work was published in Landfall and elsewhere, including Premier Poets, a collection from the World Poetry Society.
[1] She also left another bequest to fund the Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems.
[1] Unless otherwise stated, all winners were published in the year following their award by Otago University Press