[5] Shortlist: Judges: Mary O'Donnell (poet and novelist), Peter Sirr (writer, editor, translator, and former winner), and Ruth Webster (bookseller).
[12][13][14] Shortlist: Judges: Gerald Dawe, James Harpur, and Mary Shine Thompson (all poets).
[18] Shortlist: Judges: John F. Deane, Alan Gillis, and Maria Johnston.
[21][34] Shortlist: Judges: Patrick Crotty, Gerard Fanning, and Fiona Sampson.
[35] Winner: Dorothy Molloy, for Hare Soup, awarded posthumously (she died in January 2004) for her début collection.