The Judith Wright Award, also known as the Judith Wright Prize, was awarded annually as part of the

ACT Poetry 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 ...

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The ACT Poetry Award for unpublished poets was awarded in 2003 and 2004 by the ACT Government.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 Rosemary de Brissac Dobson, AO (18 June 192027 June 2012) was an Australian poet, who was also an illustrator, editor and anthologist.Anderson (1996) She published fourteen volumes of poetry, was published in almost every annual volume of ''Au ...

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 Peter Lawrence Boyle (October 18, 1935 – December 12, 2006) was an American actor. Known as a character actor, he played Frank Barone on the CBS sitcom ''Everybody Loves Raymond'' and the comical monster in Mel Brooks' film spoof ''Young Fra ...

, ''Apocrypha'' (

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) *Highly Commended

Jordie Albiston Jordie Albiston (30 September 1961 – 28 February 2022) was an Australian poet. Early life Jordie Albiston grew up in Melbourne, the second of four children. She studied music at the Victorian College of the Arts before completing a doct ...

, ''the sonnet according to "m"'' (

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) *Commended

Felicity Plunkett Felicity Plunkett is an Australian poet, literary critic, editor and academic. Biography Felicity Plunkett is a writer of poetry, essays, and short stories, and a widely published critic. She has a BA (Honours) and PhD from the University of S ...

, ''Vanishing Point'' ( University of Queensland Press) * Emma Jones, ''The Striped World'' ( Faber & Faber) *Shortlisted

Philip Hammial Philip Roby Hammial is an Australian poet, publisher, editor, artist and art curator. His achievements include thirty-five collections of poetry, thirty-four solo sculpture exhibitions, and, acting as the director/curator of The Australian Coll ...

, ''Skin Theory'' ( Puncher & Wattmann) *

Susan Hawthorne Susan Hawthorne (born 30 November 1951) is an Australian writer, poet, political commentator and publisher. Together with Renate Klein, she is co-founder and director of Spinifex Press, a leading independent feminist publisher that celebrated i ...

, ''Earth's Breath'' (

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)

2009

*Winner: Sarah Holland-Batt, ''Aria'' ( University of Queensland Press) *Highly Commended: Jan Owen, ''Poems 1980 - 2008'' (John Leonard Press) *Shortlisted: David Brooks ''The Balcony'' (University of Queensland Press) * Martin Harrison ''Wild Bees: New and Selected Poems'' (

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) *

Marcella Polain Marcella Polain (born 1958) is an Australian-resident poet, novelist and short fiction writer. Early life and education Marcella Polain was born in Singapore and migrated to Australia at the age of two with her Irish father and Armenian mother. ...

''Therapy Like Fish: New and Selected Poems'' (John Leonard Press) * Peter Steele ''White Knight with Beebox: New & Selected Poems'' (John Leonard Press)

2008

*Winner: Barry Hill, ''Necessity: Poems 1996-2006'' (soi3 modern poets) *Highly Commended:

J S Harry J. S. Harry or Jan Harry (4 January 1939 – 20 May 2015) was an Australian poet described as "one of Australian poetry’s keenest satirists, political and social commentators, and perhaps its most ethical agent and antagonist." J. S. Harry was ...

''Not Finding Wittgenstein'' (

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) *Commended:

Meredith Wattison Meredith is a Welsh Brittonic family name, and is also sometimes used as a girl's or boy's forename. The Welsh form is "Maredudd". People * Meredith (given name) * Meredith (surname) Places Australia * Meredith, Victoria United States * Meredith ...

''Basket of Sunlight'' ( Puncher & Wattmann) *

Petra White Petra White is an Australian poet. White was born in Adelaide in 1975, the eldest of six children, and now lives in Berlin with her husband and daughter. Her first published collection of poetry, The Incoming Tide ( John Leonard Press 2007), wa ...

''The Incoming Tide'' (John Leonard Press) *Shortlisted: Elizabeth Campbell ''Letters to the Tremulous Hand'' (John Leonard Press) * Brendan Ryan ''A paddock in his head'' (Five Islands Press)

2007

*Winner:

Diane Fahey Diane Mary Fahey (born 2 January 1945) is an Australian poet. She was born Diane Mary Brotheridge in Melbourne, Australia and lives in the Barwon Heads area, near Geelong. A winner of the 1985 Mattara Poetry Prize and many other awards, Fahey ...

''Sea Wall and River Light'' (Five Islands Press) *Winner:

S. K. Kelen Stephen Kenneth Kelen (born in Sydney in 1956), known as S. K. Kelen, is an Australian poet and educator. S. K. Kelen began publishing poetry in 1973, when he won a Poetry Australia contest for young poets and several of his poems were published ...

''Earthly Delights'' (Pandanus) *Highly Commended:

Robyn Rowland Robyn Lea Rowland (born 1952) is an Irish Australian poet, writer and retired academic. Biography Rowland, a third generation Irish Australian, was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1952. While researching her PhD, Rowland worked as a par ...

''Silence and its Tongues'' * Michelle Cahill ''The Accidental Cage''

2006

*Winner:

Susan Hampton Susan Hampton (born 1949) is an Australian poet who lives in Davistown, New South Wales. Biography Susan Hampton was born in Inverell, New South Wales, in 1949, and lived in Annandale in Sydney for many years. She has taught writing at UTS and ...

''The Kindly Ones'' (Five Islands Press)Arts ACT Poetry Prize 2006
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Adrian Caesar Adrian Caesar (born 1955) is an Australian author and poet. Caesar was born in Manchester, United Kingdom and emigrated to Australia in 1982. He studied at Reading University and has held appointments at various Australian universities, inclu ...

''High Wire'' *

Alan Gould Alan Gould (born 22 March 1949) is a contemporary Australian novelist, essayist and poet. Life and career Gould was born in London to an English father and an Icelandic mother. His family lived in Northern Ireland, Germany and Singapore before ...

''The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973 – 2003'' *

Jaya Savige Jaya Savige is an Australian poet. Biography Born in Sydney (1978), Savige grew up in Queensland, on Bribie Island and in Brisbane, boarding at St Joseph's College, Nudgee. He attended the University of Queensland, where, after withdrawing ...

''Latecomers''

Notes

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