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The Anne Elder Trust Fund Award for poetry is administered by the Victorian branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers and is awarded annually, as the Anne Elder Award, for the best first book of poetry published in Australia. It was established in 1976 and currently has a prize of A$1000 for the winner. The award is named after Australian poet Anne Elder (1918–1976).

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2014

  • Winner: Cathy Altmann, Circumnavigation (Poetica Christi Press)

    • 2013

  • Winner: Vanessa Page, Confessional Box (Walleah Press)
  • Commended: Susan Adams, Beside Rivers (Island Press); Luke Fischer, Paths of Flight (Black Pepper); Vanessa Kirkpatrick, To Catch the Light (Fence Post Press); Ainslee Meredith, Pinetorch (Australian Poetry/Express Media)

    • 2010

  • Winner: Rosanna Licari, An Absence of Saints (University of Queensland Press)
  • Highly Commended: Andy Jackson, Among the Regulars (Paper Tiger)
  • Commended: Rachael Petridis, Sundecked (The Australian Poetry Centre); Chloe Wilson, The Mermaid Problem (The Australian Poetry Centre); Peter Coghill, The Rockclimber's Hands (Picaro); and Leah Kaminsky, Stitching Things Together (Interactive Press)

    • 2009

  • Winner: Emma Jones, The Striped World (Faber and Faber)
  • Highly Commended: Emily Ballou, The Darwin Poems (UWA Publishing)
  • Commended: Felicity Plunkett, Vanishing Point (University of Queensland Press)

    • 2008

  • Winner: Sarah Holland-Batt, Aria (University of Queensland Press); and Sandy Fitts, View from the Lucky Hotel (Five Islands Press)
  • Highly Commended: Elizabeth Hodgson, Skin Painting (UQP)
  • Commended: David Adès Mapping the World (Wakefield Press); and Carol Jenkins, Fishing in the Devonians (Puncher & Wattmann)

    • 2007

  • Winner: Judith Bishop, Event (Salt Publishing)
  • Commended: Elizabeth Campbell, Letters to the Tremulous Hand (John Leonard Press); Sarah French, Songs Orphans Sing (Five Islands Press); Hal Judge, Someone Forgot to Tell the Fish (Interactive Publications); and Petra White, The Incoming Tide (John Leonard Press)

    • 2006

  • Winner: Libby Hart, Fresh News from the Arctic (Interactive Press)
  • Highly Commended: Luke Beesley, Lemon Shark (Paper Tiger Media); Francesca Haig Bodies of Water (Five Islands Press); and Paul Magee Cube root of book (John Leonard Press)
  • Commended: Jennifer Chrystie, Polishing the Silver (Ginninderra Press); Nathan Shepherdson, Sweeping the Light Back Into the Mirror (UQP); and Simon West, First Names (Puncher & Wattmann)

    • 2005

  • Winner: Max Ryan, Rainswayed Night (Dangerously Poetic)
  • Highly commended: Lucy Holt, Stories of Bird (Poets Union)
  • Commended: Luis Gonzalez Serrano, Cities with Moveable Parts (Poets Union)

    • 2004

  • Winner: Lidija Cvetkovic, War is not the Season for Figs (UQP)
  • Highly Commended: Peter Lyssiotis, The Bird, The Belltower (Modern Writing); Miriam Wei Wei Lo, Against Certain Capture (Five Islands)
  • Commended: Lucy Alexander Feathered Tongues (Five Islands); David Musgrave To Thalia (Five Islands)

    • Prior to 2004

  • 2003: Kathryn Lomer, Extraction of Arrows (UQP)
  • 2003: Chris Andrews, Cut Lunch (Indigo)
  • 2002: Bronwyn Lea, Flight Animals (UQP)
  • 1999: Amanda Stewart, I/T: Selected poems 1980-1996 (Here and There/Split Records)
  • 1998: Jane Williams, Outside Temple Boundaries (Five Islands Press)
  • 1997: Morgan Yasbincek, Night Reversing (Fremantle Arts Centre Press)
  • 1996: Marcella Polain, Dumbstruck (Five Islands)
  • 1995: Jennifer Harrison, Michelangelo's Prisoners (Black Pepper)
  • 1994: Terry Whitebeach, Bird Dream in Four New Poets (Penguin)
  • 1993: Nicolette Stasko, Abundance (Angus & Robertson)
  • 1992: Christopher Kelen, The Naming of the Harbour and the Trees (Hale & Iremonger)
  • 1991: Alison Croggon, This is the Stone (Penguin Books)
  • 1990: Jean Kent, Verandahs (Hale & Iremonger)
  • 1989: Mark Miller, Conversing with Stones (Five Islands Press)
  • 1988: Alex Skovron, The Rearrangement (Melbourne University Press)
  • 1987: Sarah Day, A Hunger to be Less Serious (Angus & Robertson)
  • 1986: Jan Owen, Boy with Telescope (Angus & Robertson)
  • 1985: Stephen J Williams, A Crowd of Voices (Pariah Press Co-op)
  • 1984: Doris Brett, The truth about unicorns (Jacaranda Press)
  • 1983: David Brooks, The Cold Front (Hale & Iremonger)
  • 1982: Kate Llewellyn, Trader Kate and the Elephants (Friendly Street Poets); and Peter Goldsworthy, Readings from Ecclesiastes (Angus & Robertson)
  • 1981: Gig Ryan, The Division of Anger (Transit Press); and Jenny Boult, The hotel anonymous (Bent Enterprises)
  • 1980: Richard Lunn, Pompeii Deep Fry (Randolph Press)
  • 1979: Les Harrop, The Hum of the Old Suit (Angus & Robertson)
  • 1978: Lee Cataldi, Invitation to a Marxist lesbian party (Wild & Woolley)
  • 1977: Laurie Duggan, East (R. Kenny); and Graeme Curtis, At Last No Reply (Makar Press)

    • References

    Anne Elder Award Wikipedia
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