John Bray Poetry Award
The John Bray Poetry Award is awarded annually as part of the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, for a significant selection of new work by a poet published in a book. The award is named after the late Dr John Bray for his services to Australian poetry. [1]
Presently the prize is $15,000.
Winners and shortlists by year
2009
- Winner: Bronwyn Lea - The Other Way Out (Giramondo Publishing)
- Adam Aitkin - Eighth Habitation (Giramondo Publishing)
- Pam Brown - True Thoughts (Salt Publishing)
- Martin Harrison - Wild Bees: New and Selected Poems (University of Western Australia Press)
- Emma Jones (poet) - The Striped World (Faber and Faber)
- Martin Langford - The Human Project: New and Selected Poems (Puncher & Wattmann Poetry)