AustLit
Subcategory of Australian Capital Territory Poetry Prize
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Inaugurated in 2005.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2011
winner y You Can Get Only So Close on Google Earth North Melbourne : Arcadia , 2010 Z1800112 2010 selected work poetry'In this first collection, Ann Shenfield’s often tentatively articulated thoughts and anecdotes are realized as poems almost in spite of themselves. The little narratives build—and they are narratives rather than lyrical effusions—and they aggregate in effect, expanding to the reader’s attention as though heliotropes responding to the light!' – Kris Hemensley (Publication summary)
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Year: 2010
winner y Apocrypha : Texts Collected and Translated by William O'Shaunessy Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2010 Z1719361 2010 selected work poetry'In Apocrypha, Peter Boyle retrieves the luminous classical landscape that is the birthplace of Western civilisation and the Western psyche. Setting out to find the discarded or forbidden parts of this landscape, his search brings to light a forgotten but distinctly classical undercurrent of animism, of a piece, in its intellectual lucidity and precision, with classical science and philosophy. In the retrieved fragments of William O'Shaunessy's "translations", the outer world of poplars, ibis, windmills, commerce and political vagary interflows seamlessly with inner worlds of sorrow, anguish, love and loss to create a sparkling wholeness of meaning and matter that seems utterly lost to the West today. In a way that perhaps only a poet can, however, Boyle shows that this wholeness can be now, as it always was, our own.' - Freya Matthews
Source: Vagabond Press website, http://www.vagabondpress.net/
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Year: 2009
winner y Aria St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2008 Z1522089 2008 selected work poetry -
Year: 2008
winner y Necessity : Poems 1996-2006 West End : Soi 3 Modern Poets , 2007 Z1434658 2007 selected work poetry -
Year: 2007
joint winner y Sea Wall and River Light Carlton : Five Islands Press , 2006 Z1334905 2006 selected work poetry Joint winner with S. K. Kelen for Earthly Delightsjoint winner y Earthly Delights Canberra : Pandanus Books , 2006 Z1275421 2006 selected work poetry Joint winner with Diane Fahey for Sea Wall and River Light.