Anne Elder Award
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The Anne Elder Award is given annually by the Fellowship of Australian Writers for the first publication in Australia of a first book of poetry. It was established in 1976 and is currently has a prize of $1000 (AUD) for the winner.[1]
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[edit] Award winners
[edit] 2008
- Winner: Sandy Fitts, View from the Lucky Hotel (Five Islands Press)[2]
[edit] 2007
- Winner: Judith Bishop, Event[3]
- Commended: Elizabeth Campbell, Letters to the Tremulous Hand; Sarah French, Songs Orphans Sing; Hal Judge, Someone Forgot to Tell the Fish; Petra White, The Incoming Tide
[edit] 2006
- Winner: Libby Hart, Fresh News from the Arctic[4]
- Highly Commended: Luke Beesley, Lemon Shark; Francesca Haig Bodies of Water; Paul Magee Cube root of book
- Commended: Jennifer Chrystie, Polishing the Silver; Nathan Shepherdson, Sweeping the Light Back Into the Mirror; Simon West, First Names
[edit] 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)
[edit] 2004
- Winner: Lidija Cvetkovic, War is not the Season for Figs (UQP)[5]
- 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)
[edit] Prior to 2004
- 2003: Kathryn Lomer, Extraction of Arrows (UQP)[6]
- 2002: Bronwyn Lea, Flight Animals (UQP)[7]
- 1999: Amanda Stewart, I/T: Selected poems 1980-1996 (Here and There/Split Records)
- 1998: Jane Williams, Outside Temple Boundaries (Five Islands)[8]
- 1997: Morgan Yasbincek, Night Reversing (Fremantle Arts Centre Press)[9]
- 1995: Jennifer Harrison, Michelangelo's Prisoners (Black Pepper)[10]
- 1994: Terry Whitebeach, Bird Dream in Four New Poets (Penguin)[11]
- 1993: Nicolette Stasko, Abundance (Angus & Robertson)[12]
- 1992: Christopher Kelen, The Naming of the Harbour and the Trees
- 1987: Sarah Day, A Hunger to be Less Serious[13]
- 1986: Jan Owen, Boy with Telescope (Angus & Robertson)[14]
- 1980: Les Harrop, The Hum of the Old Suit (Angus & Robertson)
- 1979: Lee Cataldi, Invitation to a Marxist lesbian party (Wild & Woolley)[15]
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Fellowship of Australian Writers Home page
[edit] References
- ^ a b 2005 National Literary Awards Results p. 2.
- ^ Readings (Books, Music, Film). News. 5 May 2009
- ^ 2007 National Literary Awards
- ^ 2006 National Literary Awards Results p. 2.
- ^ 2004 National Literary Awards Results p. 2.
- ^ "Kathryn Lomer". The Write Stuff. http://www.the-write-stuff.com.au/archives/vol-7/kathryn_lomer/index.html. Retrieved on 2007-10-23.
- ^ "Literature Board Members". Australia Council. http://www.ozco.gov.au/boards/literature/literature_board_members/. Retrieved on 2007-10-23.
- ^ "The Poetry of Jane Williams". Thylazine Foundation. http://www.thylazine.org/thyla12/jw.html. Retrieved on 2007-10-23.
- ^ "Australian Artists and Writers Directory - Y". Thylazine Foundation. http://www.thylazine.org/directory/directy/. Retrieved on 2007-10-23.
- ^ "The Poetry of Jennifer Harrison". Thylazine Foundation. http://www.thylazine.org/archives/thyla2/jh.html. Retrieved on 2007-10-23.
- ^ "The Poetry of Terry Whitebeach". Thylazine Foundation. http://www.thylazine.org/archives/thyla2/tw.html. Retrieved on 2007-10-23.
- ^ "Nicolette Stasko". Black Pepper Press. http://users.vic.chariot.net.au/~bpepper/stasko.html. Retrieved on 2007-10-22.
- ^ "Sarah Day". The Write Stuff. http://www.the-write-stuff.com.au/archives/vol-7/sarah_day/index.html. Retrieved on 2007-10-23.
- ^ "Guide to the Papers of Jan Owen". Australian Defence Force Academy. https://www.student.adfa.edu.au/library/speccoll/finding_aids/owen_jan.html. Retrieved on 2007-10-23.
- ^ "Australian Artists and Writers Directory - Y". Thylazine Foundation. http://www.thylazine.org/directory/directc/. Retrieved on 2007-10-23.
