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ACT Poetry Prize - Current Awards

2011

Click the hyperlinked title to read the manuscript poem, or to find the publication in the ACT Public Library. Our thanks to ArtsACT for permission to reproduce the poems.

Previous awards.

 

 

Rosemary Dobson Award

David Campbell Award

Judith Wright Award

Alec Bolton Award
for an unpublished poem by an Australian poet 
for an unpublished poem by an ACT poet 
for a published collection by an Australian poet
for an unpublished manuscript by an Australian poet
 

Winner  (joint)
Lang, Kristen.
Goodbye is too small a word

Murphy, Lizz.
The Architecture of Pear

Winner 
Cliff, Paul.
Rosalie Gascoigne

Winner
Shelfield, Anne.
You can only get so close on google earth

Winner
Chevalier, Julie.
Darger - a sequence of poems 

Commended
Dunne, Lyle.
Cattle Grids

Holt, Lucy.
Shark

Lintermans, Tony.
The Evidence

Commended
Coleman, David.
Last coffee

Page, Geoff.
Immanuel

Commended
Holt, Lucy.
Patience, Mutiny

Nicholson, Anna Kerdijk.
Possession

Potter, Claire.
Swallow

White, Petra.
The Simplified World

Commended
Keates, Carmen.
Second-Hand Attack Dog

Lawrence, Anthony.
The Unfairground

Lintermans, Tony.
The World was Rumour

 

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