Judith Wright Award


The Judith Wright Award, also known as the Judith Wright Prize, was awarded annually as part of the ACT Poetry Award between 2005 and 2011 for a book of poems published the previous year in book form by an Australian author. It was awarded for a published collection by an Australian poet.

History

The ACT Poetry Award for unpublished poets was awarded in 2003 and 2004 by the ACT Government. From 2005 to 2011, there were four prizes awarded: the Rosemary Dobson Award, the David Campbell Award, the Judith Wright Award and the Alec Bolton Award.
In 2012, the Government reviewed the ACT Poetry Prize, and developed three new initiatives: the ACT Poetry Prize for a single poem, a Centenary Poetry in ACTION program and Youth Poetry Slams, to begin in ACT schools in 2013. The last ACT poetry prize appears to have been awarded in 2013.

Winners

2010

  • Winner Peter Boyle, Apocrypha
  • Highly Commended Jordie Albiston, the sonnet according to "m"
  • Commended Felicity Plunkett, Vanishing Point
  • Emma Jones, The Striped World
  • Shortlisted Philip Hammial, Skin Theory
  • Susan Hawthorne, ''Earth's Breath''

    2009

  • Winner: Sarah Holland-Batt, Aria
  • Highly Commended: Jan Owen, Poems 1980 - 2008
  • Shortlisted: David Brooks The Balcony
  • Martin Harrison Wild Bees: New and Selected Poems
  • Marcella Polain Therapy Like Fish: New and Selected Poems
  • Peter Steele ''White Knight with Beebox: New & Selected Poems''

    2008

  • Winner: Barry Hill, Necessity: Poems 1996-2006
  • Highly Commended: J. S. Harry Not Finding Wittgenstein
  • Commended: Meredith Wattison Basket of Sunlight
  • Petra White The Incoming Tide
  • Shortlisted: Elizabeth Campbell Letters to the Tremulous Hand
  • Brendan Ryan ''A paddock in his head''

    2007

  • Winner: Diane Fahey Sea Wall and River Light
  • Winner: S. K. Kelen Earthly Delights
  • Highly Commended: Robyn Rowland Silence and its Tongues
  • Michelle Cahill ''The Accidental Cage''

    2006

  • Winner: Susan Hampton The Kindly Ones
  • Shortlisted: Adrian Caesar High Wire
  • Alan Gould The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973 – 2003
  • Jaya Savige ''Latecomers''