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Judith Wright Poetry Prize
The winners of Overland’s Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets were announced on Sunday at the historic Glenfern property in St Kilda, home of the Australian Poetry Centre. The major prize went to Tim Wright, for his poem ‘emoticon’, beating out 815 entries, receiving a $3000 prize plus publication in Overland 194. Judge Keri Glastonbury said ‘Tim is part of a new breed (I hesitate to say “school”) of poets working in a technologically mediated culture, opening up a continuing contemporary local dialogue with poetic tradition’. Runners-up Sarah-Jane Norman (‘Open Water’) and Astrid Lorange (‘you dropped the tea tray’); and commended poets Thomas Lee (‘Plateau’), Mria Freij (‘Where the Heart Is’), Peter Lach-Newinsky (‘The Knee Monologues’), Aden Rolfe (‘Purge Landscape’), and Briohny Doyle (‘Without Events’) will appear in a later edition of Overland. The prize is sponsored by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation. Read Glastonbury’s comments here.
Source: http://web.overland.org.au/?page_id=1045
This article from Thorpe Bowker’s Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker
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