Judith Wright Prize

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The Judith Wright Prize is awarded annually as part of the Arts ACT Poetry Prize for a book of poems published the previous year in book form by an Australian author.

The prize currently comes with a $10,000 (AUS) cash award.

2010

Winner Peter Boyle, Apocrypha (Vagabond Press)

Highly Commended Jordie Albiston, the sonnet according to "m" (John Leonard Press)

Commended Felicity Plunkett, Vanishing Point (University of Queensland Press)

Emma Jones, The Striped World (Faber & Faber)

Shortlisted Philip Hammial, Skin Theory (Puncher & Wattmann)

Susan Hawthorne, Earth's Breath (Spinifex Press)

2009

Winner: Sarah Holland-Batt, Aria (University of Queensland Press)

Highly Commended: Jan Owen, Poems 1980 - 2008 (John Leonard Press)

Shortlisted: David Brooks The Balcony (University of Queensland Press)

Martin Harrison Wild Bees: New and Selected Poems (University of Western Australia Press)

Marcella Polain Therapy Like Fish: New and Selected Poems (John Leonard Press)

Peter Steele White Knight with Beebox: New & Selected Poems (John Leonard Press)

2008

Winner: Barry Hill, Necessity: Poems 1996-2006 (soi3 modern poets)

Highly Commended: J S Harry Not Finding Wittgenstein (Giramondo)

Commended: Meredith Wattison Basket of Sunlight (Puncher & Wattmann)

Petra White The Incoming Tide (John Leonard Press)

Shortlisted: Elizabeth Campbell Letters to the Tremulous Hand (John Leonard Press)

Brendan Ryan A paddock in his head (Five Islands Press)

2007

Winner: Diane Fahey Sea Wall and River Light (Five Islands Press)

Winner: S. K. Kelen Earthly Delights (Pandanus)

Highly Commended: Robyn Rowland Silence and its Tongues

Michelle Cahill The Accidental Cage

2006

Winner: Susan Hampton The Kindly Ones (Five Islands Press)

Shortlisted: Adrian Caesar High Wire

Alan Gould The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973 – 2003

Jaya Savige Latecomers

References

Judith Wright Prize Wikipedia

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