Judith Wright Prize
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.[1]
The prize currently comes with a $10,000 (AUS) cash award.
Winners
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)[2]
- 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)[3]
- 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)[4]
- Shortlisted: Adrian Caesar High Wire
- Alan Gould The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973 – 2003
- Jaya Savige Latecomers