Australian poetry award
The Anne Elder Trust Fund Award for poetry was administered by the Victorian branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers from its establishment in 1976 until 2017. From 2018 the award has been administered by Australian Poetry.[1] It is awarded annually, as the Anne Elder Award, for the best first book of poetry published in Australia. It was established in 1976 and currently has a prize of A$1000 for the winner.[2] The award is named after Australian poet Anne Elder (1918–1976).[3]
Note: the award is made for a particular year of publication, but presented in the following year.
- 1977: Laurie Duggan, East (R. Kenny); and Graeme Curtis, At Last No Reply (Makar Press)[4]
- 1978: Lee Cataldi, Invitation to a Marxist lesbian party (Wild & Woolley)[4]
- 1979: Les Harrop, The Hum of the Old Suit: Poems (Angus & Robertson)[5]
- 1980: Richard Lunn, Pompeii Deep Fry (Randolph Press)[5]
- 1981: Gig Ryan, The Division of Anger (Transit Press) and Jenny Boult, The Hotel Anonymous (Bent Enterprises)[5]
- 1982: Kate Llewellyn, Trader Kate and the Elephants (Friendly Street Poets);[6] and Peter Goldsworthy, Readings from Ecclesiastes (Angus & Robertson)
- 1983: David Brooks, The Cold Front (Hale & Iremonger)[7]
- 1984: Doris Brett, The Truth about Unicorns (Jacaranda Press) and Max Richards, Under Mount Egmont and Other Poems (Neptune Press)[7]
- 1985: Stephen J Williams, A Crowd of Voices (Pariah Press Co-op)[8]
- 1986: Jan Owen, Boy with Telescope (Angus & Robertson)[8]
- 1987: Sarah Day, A Hunger to be Less Serious (Angus & Robertson)[8]
- 1988: Alex Skovron, The Rearrangement (Melbourne University Press)[8]
- 1989: Mark Miller, Conversing with Stones (Five Islands Press)[9]
- 1990: Jean Kent, Verandahs (Hale & Iremonger) and Barry Hill, Raft: Poems 1983-1990 (Penguin)[9]
- 1991: Alison Croggon, This is the Stone (Penguin Books)[9]
- 1992: Nicolette Stasko, Abundance (Angus & Robertson)[10]
- 1993: Terry Whitebeach, Bird Dream in Four New Poets (Penguin)[10]
- 1994: Not awarded[10]
- 1995: Jennifer Harrison, Michelangelo's Prisoners (Black Pepper)[11]
- 1996: Marcella Polain, Dumbstruck (Five Islands)[11]
- 1997: Morgan Yasbincek, Night Reversing (Fremantle Arts Centre Press)[11]
- 1998: Jane Williams, Outside Temple Boundaries (Five Islands Press) and Amanda Stewart, I/T: Selected poems 1980–1996 (Here and There/Split Records)[12]
- 1999: Not awarded[12]
- 2000: Arthur M. Spyrou, Garden of Delights (Monogene)[12]
- 2001: Not awarded[12]
- 2002: Bronwyn Lea, Flight Animals (UQP)[13]
- 2003: Chris Andrews, Cut Lunch (Indigo) and Kathryn Lomer, Extraction of Arrows (UQP)[14]
- Winner: Rosanna Licari, An Absence of Saints (University of Queensland Press)[21]
- Highly Commended: Andy Jackson, Among the Regulars (Paper Tiger)
- Commended: Rachael Petridis, Sundecked (The Australian Poetry Centre); Chloe Wilson, The Mermaid Problem (The Australian Poetry Centre); Peter Coghill, The Rockclimber's Hands (Picaro); and Leah Kaminsky, Stitching Things Together (Interactive Press)
- Winner: Mags Webster, The Weather of Tongues (Sunline][22]
- Highly Commended: Michelle Dicinoski, Electricity for Beginners (Clouds of Magellan)
- Commended: Vladislav Neklianv, Another Babylon(UQP); Fiona Wright, Knuckled (Giramondo)
- Winner: Elizabeth Allen, Body Language (Vagabond Press)[23]
- Highly Commended: Eileen Chong, Burning Rice (Australian Poetry)
- Commended: Toby Finch, Rawshock (Puncher and Wattman); Susan McCreery, Waiting for Southerly (Gininderra Press);
- Winner: Vanessa Page, Confessional Box (Walleah Press)[24]
- Commended: Susan Adams, Beside Rivers (Island Press); Luke Fischer, Paths of Flight (Black Pepper); Vanessa Kirkpatrick, To Catch the Light (Fence Post Press); Ainslee Meredith, Pinetorch (Australian Poetry/Express Media)
- Winner: John Hawke, Aurelia (Cordite Books)[26]
- Highly commended: Shari Kocher, The Non-Sequitur of Snow (Puncher & Wattmann), Linda Weste, Nothing Sacred (Australian Scholarly Publishing)
- Winner: Rico Craig, Bone Ink (Guillotine Press)
- Highly commended: Bella Li, Argosy (Vagabond Press)
- Commended: Shastra Deo, The Agonist (University of Queensland Press), Omar Sakr, These Wild Houses (Cordite Books)
- Winner: Ella Jeffrey, Dead Bolt (Puncher & Wattmann)[29]
- Commended: Luke Best, Cadaver Dog (UQP); Rebecca Jessen, Ask Me About the Future (UQP)
- Winner: Audrey Molloy, The Important Things (Gallery Press)[30]
- Highly Commended: Evelyn Araluen, Dropbear (UQP); Lucy Van, The Open (Cordite); Damen O'Brien, Animals With Human Voices (Recent Work)
- Commended: James Lucas, Rare Bird (Recent Work)
- Joint Winners:[31]
- Harry Reid, Leave Me Alone (Cordite)
- Theodore Ell, Beginning In Sight (RWP)
- Highly Commended: Rebecca Cheers, No Camellias (Rabbit Books); Moya Costello, Pressed Specimens (Beir Bua Press); Gavin Yuan Gao, At the Altar of Touch (UQP)[31]
- Winner: Sara M. Saleh, The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat (UQP)[32]
- Highly Commended: Ella Skilbeck-Porter, These Are Different Waters (Vagabond); Grace Yee, Chinese Fish (Giramondo)