ACT Poetry Prize - Past Awards

for an unpublished poem by an Australian poet 

for an unpublished poem by an ACT poet 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for an unpublished manuscript by an Australian poet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.
PDF version of Goodbye is too small a word

Murphy, Lizz.
The Architecture of Pear

Winner 
Cliff, Paul.
PDF version of Rosalie Gascoigne 

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

Holt, Lucy.
Shark

Lintermans, Tony.
The Evidence

Page, Geoff.
Immanuel

Nicholson, Anna Kerdijk.
Possession

Potter, Claire.
Swallow

White, Petra.
The Simplified World

Lawrence, Anthony.
The Unfairground

Lintermans, Tony.
The World was Rumour

for an unpublished poem by an Australian poet

for an unpublished poem by an ACT poet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for an unpublished manuscript by an Australian poet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 
Slattery, Andrew.
Always Sometimes Never

Winner (joint)
Lance, Robyn.
The world inside their hide

Cottier, P.S.
Visitation

Highly Commended
Pattionson, Jillian.
The Infinte Library.
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Commended
Kelsall, Alana.
The One Room 

Leber, Michelle.
My Curious Plague of Flowers

Commended
Cliff, Paul.
Salmon Trout, Moruyah Heads

Edgar, Suzanne.
An Argument

Jones, Emma
The Striped World

Shortlisted
Cronin, MTC.
POWER LAWS

Liversidge, Ray.
The lawn

Stokes, John.
After rain in various guises along Bell's Line of Road

Treddinick, Mark.
Rain at Eltham

Hawthorne, Susan.
Earth's Breath

for an unpublished poem by an Australian poet 

for an unpublished poem by an ACT poet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for an unpublished manuscript by an Australian poet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
Lim, Debbie.
Fossil of Emerging Trilobite

Winner 
Clutterbuck, Charlotte.
Why I Still Go To Church

Winner
Holland-Batt, Sarah
Aria

Winner
Slattery, Andrew.
The Severant

Highly Commended
Owen, Jan.
Poems 1980-2008

Highly Commended
Holt, LK.
Patience Mutiny

Commended
Slattery, Andrew.
Cleanse

Capes, Ashley.
Small Town

Commended
Unikowski, Isi.
At the Broinowski Gate

Shortlisted
Pattinson, Jillian.
Octoberman

Disney, Dan.
On Regarding Kant's Statue

Kroll, Jerri.
Vanishing Point

Shortlisted
Hampton, Susan.
How Fugues Work

Foulcher, John.
Home Truth

Shortlisted
Brooks, David.
The Balcony

Harrison, Martin.
Wild Bees : New and Selected Poems

Polain, Marcella.
Therapy Like Fish : New and Selected Poems

Steele, Peter.
White Knight with Beebox : new and Selected Poems

Shortlisted
Leach, Roland.
My Father's Pigs

Cahill, Michelle.
Vishvarupa

for an unpublished poem by an Australian poet 

for a published collection by an Australian poet

for an unpublished manuscript by an Australian poet

Winner
Jackson, Andy.
Secessionist

Winner 
Kambaskovic-Sawers, Danijela.
A Migrant Writer on A Bus (Thinking of Kundera)

Winner
Hill, Barry.
Necessity - Poems 1996-2006

Winner
Musgrave, David.
Phantom Limb

Highly Commended
Harry, J S.
Not Finding Wittgenstein

Highly Commended
Kennedy, Cate. 
The Taste of River Water

Kent, Jean.
Travelling with the Wrong Phrase Book

Shortlisted
Andrews, Chris.
By Accident


Compton, Jennifer.
Approaching Firenze

De Laine, John.
Field Mouse

Kerr, Joan.
Gobray, bunhan bunahan, khen

Livings, Edward.
Tawny Frogmouth

Shepherdson, Nathan.
Unlike

Shortlisted
Lebkowicz, Lesley.
The Spy, Volodya Petrov, leaves his home...

Pacey, Moya. 
The Wardrobe

Page, Geoff. 
Dancing in a Paper Hat

Shapley, Maggie.
Changdeokgung

Shortlisted
Campbell, Elizabeth.
Letters to the Tremulous Hand


Ryan, Brendan. 
A Paddock in his head

Shortlisted
Leach-Pahloski, Carolyn.
The Sorrow Bird


Ryan, Tracy.
The Argument

for an unpublished poem by an Australian poet 

for a published collection by an Australian poet

for an unpublished manuscript by an Australian poet

Winner
Shenfield, Ann.
You Can Only Get So Close on Google Earth

Winner 
Lebkowicz, Lesley Fowler.
The Good Air

Joint Winners
Kelen, S K.
Earthly Delights

Fahey, Dianne.
Sea Wall & River Light

Winner
Knight, Karen.
From a Glass Kennel

Shortlisted
Owen, Jan.
Notre Dame

Krien, Anna.
Breaking the Lease

Fahey, Dianne.
Breath

Compton, Jennifer.
Regret

Shortlisted
Lello, Miranda.
Copan, The Ruins

Magee, Paul.
Pineapple Fish

Shortlisted
Rowland, Robyn.
Silence and Its Tongues

Cahill, Michelle.
The Accidental Cage

Shortlisted
Zajkowski, Maria.
From an Island

for an unpublished poem by an Australian poet 

for a published collection by an Australian poet

for an unpublished manuscript by an Australian poet

Winner
Mahood, Kim.
The Burned Town

Winner
Smith, Melinda.
Given

Winner
Hampton, Susan.
The Kindly Ones

Winner
Dougan, Lucy.
White Clay

Shortlisted
Stokes, John.
Three Days on the D'Entrecasteaux Channel 

Smith, Melinda.
Given

Shortlisted
Caesar, Adrian.
High Wire


Gould, Alan.
The Past Completes Me 

Savige, Jaya.
Latecomers

Shortlisted
Middleton, Kate.
Fire Season


Skovron, Alex.
Autographs : 56 poems in prose

for an unpublished poem by an Australian poet 

for a published collection by an Australian poet

for an unpublished manuscript by an Australian poet

Winner
Metcalf, Tom.
The Good Hope

Winner
Lawson, Elizabeth.
Blue Poles

Joint Winner
Burns, Joanne.
Footnotes of a Hammock

Day, Sarah.
The Ship

Winner
Williams, Carmel.
The Butcher’s Window

Highly Commended
Lawson, Elizabeth.
Poems for a Mother

Highly Commended
Kituai, Kathy.
Imagine

Commended
Caesar, Adrian.
De-tox


Edgar, Suzanne.
The Ring Maker

Page, Geoff, Quattrocento

Ursich, Brian, Brief

Commended
Thwaites, Michael.
Unfinished Journey

Shortlisted
Fahey, Dianne.
Mirrors

Gillam, Kevin James.
Note By Note

Lawson, Elizabeth.
Three Ages of Dugong

Shortlisted
Erwin, Russell.
But Isn’t

Erwin, Russell.
The Builder’s Mate

Lawson, Elizabeth.
Namadgi Argument

Shortlisted
Sykes, Patricia.
Modewarre : Home Ground

Shortlisted
Eberhard, Adrienne.
The Anatomy of Desire

Leach-Paholski, Carolyn.
Sermon for a Bird

Mercer, Gina.
Handfeeding the Crocodile

Oxley, Louise.
Open Water

Wakeling, Louise.
Paragliding in a War Zone

Yu Ouyang.
Terminally Poetic