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Dedication: For Kim Stafford.
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Author's note: The Columbia River is known by many names to the people who live along it. To the Chinook of its lower reaches, it is known as 'Wimahi'; the Kwak'wala-speaking peoples of the river's middle reaches call the river 'Nch'i-Wana'. Both 'Wimahi' and 'Nch'i-Wana' mean 'the big water' or 'the big river'.
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The 2011 Montreal International Poetry Prize was judged by former UK Poet Laureate Andrew Motion. In selecting 'Walking Underwater' as the winning entry, Motion said: 'This is a bold, big-thinking poem, in which ancient themes (especially the theme of our human relationship with landscape) are re-cast and re-kindled'. (Quoted on the MIPP website, http://montrealprize.com/)
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Poet Claims Major International Prize
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Australian Poet Wins $50,000 Prize
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Poet Walks Away with Major International Prize
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19 December 2011; (p. 10)
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Poet Walks Away with Major International Prize
2011
single work
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19 December 2011; (p. 10) -
Australian Poet Wins $50,000 Prize
2011
single work
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17-18 December 2011; (p. 4) -
Poet Claims Major International Prize
2012
single work
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— Appears in: Blue Mountains Gazette , 4 January 2012; (p. 15)
Awards
- 2011 inaugural winner Montreal International Poetry Prize
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