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. 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. She was a member of the Titirangi Poets. Kathleen Grattan died in 1990 and her daughter Jocelyn Grattan, who died in 2005, left Landfall'' a bequest with which to establish an award in her mother's name. She also left another bequest to fund the
Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems. The inaugural award was made in 2008 and for some years it was given annually, but is now biennial. == Eligibility and conditions ==