publication of his memoir, The Land I Came Through Last. In 2012 his collected poems was published under the title Cumulus. As with each of his poetic publications, it includes all that Gray wishes to preserve of his earlier poetry and many newer poems. Awards 1986 – New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for Selected Poems 1963–83 1986 – The Adelaide Festival of the Arts Award 1986 – The Grace Leven Prize for Poetry 1990 – Patrick White Award 1994 – Victorian Premier's Literary Award – C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry for Certain Things 2002 – The Age Book of the Year Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize for Afterimages 2002 – Victorian Premier's Literary Award – C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry for Afterimages 2011 – Australia Council Writers' Emeritus 2012 – Philip Hodgins Memorial Prize Bibliography Memoir The Land I Came Through Last (Giramond, 2008) Collections Cumulus: Collected Poems (John Leonard Press, 2012) Nameless Earth (Carcanet, 2006) Afterimages (Duffy & Snellgrove, 2002) New Selected Poems (Duffy & Snellgrove, 1998) Lineations (Duffy & Snellgrove, 1996) Certain Things (William Heinemann Australia, 1993) Selected Poems (Angus & Robertson, 1990) Piano (Angus & Robertson, 1988) Selected Poems 1963–1983 (Angus & Robertson, 1985) The Skylight (Angus & Robertson, 1984) Grass Script (Angus & Robertson, 1979) Creekwater Journal (University of Queensland Press, 1974) Introspect, Retrospect : Poems (Lyre-Bird Writers, c.1970) Edited Australian Poetry Since 1788 (University of New South Wales Press, 2011) with Geoffrey Lehmann A Spill of Light, A Thrust of Shadow (Youngstreet Poets, 1999) Australian Poetry in the Twentieth Century (William Heinemann Australia, 1991) with Geoffrey Lehmann Sydney's Poems : A Selection on the Occasion of the City's One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary 1842–1992 (Primavera Press, 1992) with Vivian Smith Selected Poems / Roland Robinson (Angus & Robertson, 1989) The Younger Australian poets (Hale & Iremonger, c1983) with Geoffrey Lehmann Biography The King's Wife : Five Queen Consorts (Secker & Warburg, 1990) Interviews "The Sydney Morning Herald" References Duffy and Snellgrove - Robert Gray AustLit - Gray, Robert Australian poets 1945 births Living people Patrick White Award winners Australian male poets