Anne Elder Award

The Anne Elder Trust Fund Award for poetry is administered by the Victorian branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers and 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.[1] The award is named after Australian poet Anne Elder (1918–1976).[2]

Award winners

2016

  • Winner: Berndt Sellheim, Awake at the Wheel (Vagabond Press) [3]
  • Commended: Stuart Barnes, Glasshouses (University of Queensland Press), Lisa Brockwell, Earth Girls (Pitt Street Poetry), J. H. Crone, Our Lady of the Fence Post (UWA Publishing), Susan Varga, Rupture (UWA Publishing)
  • Special Mention: Carmine Frascarelli, Sydney Road Poems (Rabbit Poets Series)

2015

  • Winner: John Hawke, Aurelia (Cordite Books) [4]

2014

  • Winner: Cathy Altmann, Circumnavigation (Poetica Christi Press) [5]

2013

  • Winner: Vanessa Page, Confessional Box (Walleah Press) [6]
  • 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)

2010

  • Winner: Rosanna Licari, An Absence of Saints (University of Queensland Press)[7]
  • 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)

2009

  • Winner: Emma Jones, The Striped World (Faber and Faber)
  • Highly Commended: Emily Ballou, The Darwin Poems (UWA Publishing)
  • Commended: Felicity Plunkett, Vanishing Point (University of Queensland Press)

2008

  • Winner: Sarah Holland-Batt, Aria (University of Queensland Press);[8] and Sandy Fitts, View from the Lucky Hotel (Five Islands Press)[9]
  • Highly Commended: Elizabeth Hodgson, Skin Painting (UQP)
  • Commended: David Adès Mapping the World (Wakefield Press); and Carol Jenkins, Fishing in the Devonians (Puncher & Wattmann)

2007

  • Winner: Judith Bishop, Event (Salt Publishing)[10]
  • Commended: Elizabeth Campbell, Letters to the Tremulous Hand (John Leonard Press); Sarah French, Songs Orphans Sing (Five Islands Press); Hal Judge, Someone Forgot to Tell the Fish (Interactive Publications); and Petra White, The Incoming Tide (John Leonard Press)

2006

  • Winner: Libby Hart, Fresh News from the Arctic (Interactive Press)[11]
  • Highly Commended: Luke Beesley, Lemon Shark (Paper Tiger Media); Francesca Haig Bodies of Water (Five Islands Press); and Paul Magee Cube root of book (John Leonard Press)
  • Commended: Jennifer Chrystie, Polishing the Silver (Ginninderra Press); Nathan Shepherdson, Sweeping the Light Back Into the Mirror (UQP); and Simon West, First Names (Puncher & Wattmann)

2005

  • Winner: Max Ryan, Rainswayed Night (Dangerously Poetic)[1]
  • Highly commended: Lucy Holt, Stories of Bird (Poets Union)
  • Commended: Luis Gonzalez Serrano, Cities with Moveable Parts (Poets Union)

2004

  • Winner: Lidija Cvetkovic, War is not the Season for Figs (UQP)[12]
  • Highly Commended: Peter Lyssiotis, The Bird, The Belltower (Modern Writing); Miriam Wei Wei Lo, Against Certain Capture (Five Islands)
  • Commended: Lucy Alexander Feathered Tongues (Five Islands); David Musgrave To Thalia (Five Islands)

Prior to 2004

See also

References

  1. 1 2 2005 National Literary Awards Results Archived 1 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine. p. 2.
  2. ↑ Elder, Anne. "Elder, Anne Josephine Chloe (1918 - 1976)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: Australian National University.
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  6. ↑ FAW National Literary Awards 2013 Results
  7. ↑ "Results of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (Vic). Inc. 2010 National Literary Awards" (pdf). Fellowship of Australian Writers (Vic). Inc. 2011. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-29.
  8. ↑ 2008 National Literary Awards Results Archived 13 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
  9. ↑ Readings (Books, Music, Film). News. 5 May 2009
  10. ↑ 2007 National Literary Awards Archived 20 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
  11. ↑ 2006 National Literary Awards Results Archived 1 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine. p. 2.
  12. ↑ 2004 National Literary Awards Results Archived 1 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine. p. 2.
  13. ↑ "Kathryn Lomer". The Write Stuff. Archived from the original on 28 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-23.
  14. ↑ "Literature Board Members". Australia Council. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-23.
  15. ↑ "The Poetry of Jane Williams". Thylazine Foundation. Archived from the original on 6 September 2007. Retrieved 23 October 2007.
  16. ↑ "Australian Artists and Writers Directory - Y". Thylazine Foundation. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 23 October 2007.
  17. ↑ "The Poetry of Jennifer Harrison". Thylazine Foundation. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 23 October 2007.
  18. ↑ "The Poetry of Terry Whitebeach". Thylazine Foundation. Archived from the original on 17 March 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-23.
  19. ↑ "Nicolette Stasko". Black Pepper Press. Archived from the original on 12 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-22.
  20. ↑ Austlit - Anne Elder Award
  21. ↑ "Kate Llewellyn". Australian Poetry Library. University of Sydney, Copyright Agency Limited. Retrieved 2011-07-30.
  22. ↑ "Gig Ryan". Australian Poetry Library. University of Sydney, Copyright Agency Limited. Retrieved 2011-07-30.
  23. ↑ "Australian Artists and Writers Directory - Y". Thylazine Foundation. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-23.
  24. ↑ http://www.answers.com/topic/ann-elder

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