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History
The Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize is open to citizens of Australia or New Zealand. The poems must be unpublished and have an environmental theme.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2023
winner I Watch a Cat Choke / Call It [Redacted] i "day [break] / and the [broccoli] is moulting / the sunrise in [subjective tense] smells of crushed", 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 38 2024; (p. 104-106) -
Year: 2022
winner Below the Summit i "The pandani graze where they've scattered, mid-step", 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 36 2022; (p. 111-113) -
Year: 2021
winner Carried from Hell’s Gate, Tasmania 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 34 2022; -
Year: 2020
winner Anthropocene Poetics Part 1 i "My dog dies", 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2020; (p. 46-47) Rabbit , no. 31 2020; (p. 96-98) -
Year: 2019
winner God Instructs His Angels to Burn the Notre Dame i "Remember that they razed the Standing Stones", 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 29 2020; (p. 92-93)
