Anne Elder Award
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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. The award is named after Australian poet Anne Elder (1918–1976).
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Fellowship of Australian Writers
The Fellowship of Australian Writers, also known as FAW, was established in Sydney in 1928. Its aim is to bring writers together and promote their interests...
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. The award is named after Australian poet Anne Elder (1918–1976).
2010
- Winner: Rosanna Licari, An Absence of Saints (University of Queensland Press)
- 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 JonesEmma Jones (poet)Emma Jones is an Australian poet. Her first poetry collection, The Striped World, was published by Faber & Faber in 2009.Jones was raised in Concord, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney. Her father was Australian; her British mother had emigrated to Australia...
, The Striped World (Faber and Faber) - Highly Commended: Emily BallouEmily BallouEmily Ballou is an Australian-American poet, novelist and screenwriter. Her first poetry collection The Darwin Poems, a verse portrait of Charles Darwin, was published by University of Western Australia Press in 2009...
, The Darwin Poems (UWA Publishing) - Commended: Felicity PlunkettFelicity PlunkettFelicity Plunkett is an Australian poet and critic. She is Poetry Editor at the University of Queensland Press.-Career:Felicity Plunkett has a BA and PhD from the University of Sydney. She has worked as an academic at several universities, and is a widely-published writer of poetry, reviews,...
, Vanishing Point (University of Queensland Press)
2008
- Winner: Sarah Holland-BattSarah Holland-BattSarah Holland-Batt is a contemporary Australian poet and academic.-Biography:Born in Southport, Queensland, Sarah Holland-Batt grew up in Australia and the United States. She was educated at the University of Queensland, where she received First Class Honours in Literary Studies and an MPhil in...
, Aria (University of Queensland Press); and Sandy Fitts, View from the Lucky Hotel (Five Islands Press)
- 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 BishopJudith BishopJudith Bishop is a contemporary Australian poet, linguist and translator.-Biography:Judith Bishop was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1972. She holds a DPhil from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Melbourne. In 1994 she received the Rae and Edith Bennett...
, Event (Salt Publishing) - 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 WhitePetra WhitePetra White is an Australian poet. Petra was born in Adelaide in 1975, the eldest of six children, and now lives in Melbourne, where she works, for the moment, as a public servant...
, The Incoming Tide (John Leonard Press)
2006
- Winner: Libby HartLibby Hart (Australian writer)Libby Hart is a poet from Victoria, Australia. She was awarded the 2003 D. J. O'Hearn Memorial Fellowship and its artist-in-residence appointment from the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne....
, Fresh News from the Arctic (Interactive Press) - 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)
- Highly commended: Lucy Holt, Stories of Bird (Poets Union)
- Commended: Luis Gonzalez Serrano, Cities with Moveable Parts (Poets Union)
2004
- Winner: Lidija CvetkovicLidija CvetkovicLidija Cvetkovic is a contemporary Australian poet.Lidija Cvetkovic was born in the former Yugoslavia and emigrated to Australia with her family in 1980. She earned a BA at the University of Queensland and has worked as a teacher and currently as a psychologist. Her writing draws on her Yugoslav...
, War is not the Season for Figs (UQP) - Highly Commended: Peter LyssiotisPeter LyssiotisPeter Lyssiotis is a Cypriot born-Australian writer, photographer and photomonteur.Peter Lyssiotis is a Cypriot born-Australian writer, photographer and photomonteur....
, The Bird, The Belltower (Modern Writing); Miriam Wei Wei Lo, Against Certain Capture (Five Islands) - Commended: Lucy Alexander Feathered Tongues (Five Islands); David MusgraveDavid MusgraveDavid Musgrave is an Australian poet, novelist, publisher and critic. He is currently the publisher of Puncher & Wattmann, an independent press which publishes Australian poetry and literary fiction...
To Thalia (Five Islands)
Prior to 2004
- 2003: Kathryn LomerKathryn LomerKathryn Lomer is an Australian writer and poet.She began her career teaching ESL for many years, including two years in Japan.Her first novel, The God in the Ink was published by the University of Queensland Press in 2001...
, Extraction of Arrows (UQP) - 2003: Chris Andrews, Cut Lunch (Indigo)
- 2002: Bronwyn LeaBronwyn LeaBronwyn Lea is a contemporary Australian poet, academic and editor.-Biography:Born in Tasmania, Bronwyn Lea grew up in Queensland and Papua New Guinea, moving to San Diego to study at California State University...
, Flight Animals (UQP) - 1999: Amanda StewartAmanda StewartAmanda Stewart is a contemporary Australian poet and sound/performance artist.Amanda Stewart began writing and performing poetry in the 1970s and has since produced a wide array of sound, video and multimedia work. In the 1980s she worked for ABC radio as a producer...
, I/T: Selected poems 1980-1996 (Here and There/Split Records) - 1998: Jane Williams, Outside Temple Boundaries (Five Islands Press)
- 1997: Morgan YasbincekMorgan YasbincekMorgan Yasbincek is a contemporary Australian poet, novelist and academic.Morgan Yasbincek lives in Western Australia where she completed her PhD at Murdoch University. She has held a residency at the University of East Anglia, UK in 1998 and currently teaches creative writing at Murdoch...
, Night Reversing (Fremantle Arts Centre PressFremantle Arts Centre PressFremantle Press is an independent publisher in Western Australia. Fremantle Press was established by the Fremantle Arts Centre in 1976...
) - 1996: Marcella PolainMarcella PolainMarcella Polain is an Australian-resident poet, novelist and short fiction writer. She was born in Singapore and with her family migrated to Australia at the age of two with her Irish father and Armenian mother. Her father died when Marcella was ten, and it is this loss and her mother's survival...
, Dumbstruck (Five Islands) - 1995: Jennifer HarrisonJennifer HarrisonJennifer Harrison is a contemporary Australian psychiatrist, poet and photographer.Born in Liverpool, Sydney Jennifer Harrison studied medicine and then specialised in psychiatry...
, Michelangelo's Prisoners (Black Pepper) - 1994: Terry Whitebeach, Bird Dream in Four New Poets (Penguin)
- 1993: Nicolette StaskoNicolette StaskoNicolette Stasko is a contemporary Australian poet, novelist and non-fiction writer of United States origin.Nicolette Stasko was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania to Polish and Hungarian parents. She completed a BA with honours in English at Pennsylvania State University and an MA in education at...
, Abundance (Angus & RobertsonAngus & RobertsonAngus & Robertson is a bookstore chain in Australia. Its first bookstore was opened in 110½ Market Street, Sydney by Scotsman David Angus in 1884; it sold second-hand books. In 1886, he went into partnership with fellow Scot, George Robertson with whom he had worked earlier.- Bookselling history...
) - 1992: Christopher KelenChristopher KelenChristopher Kelen is an Australian writer and artist currently residing in Macao, China. Kelen is the author of nine volumes of poetry and two novels...
, The Naming of the Harbour and the Trees (Hale & Iremonger) - 1991: Alison CroggonAlison CroggonAlison Croggon is a contemporary Australian poet, playwright, fantasy novelist, and librettist.-Life:Born in the Transvaal, South Africa, Alison Croggon's family moved to England before settling in Australia, first in Ballarat then Melbourne. She has worked as a journalist for the Sydney Morning...
, This is the Stone (Penguin Books) - 1990: Jean Kent, Verandahs (Hale & Iremonger)
- 1989: Mark Miller, Conversing with Stones (Five Islands Press)
- 1988: Alex Skovron, The Rearrangement (Melbourne University Press)
- 1987: Sarah DaySarah DaySarah Day is a U.K. born Australian poet and teacher. She was also the poetry editor of Island Magazine for several years.-Biography:Sarah E Day was born in Lancashire, England, in 1958 and grew up in Hobart, Tasmania.-Bibliography:...
, A Hunger to be Less Serious (Angus & Robertson) - 1986: Jan OwenJan Owen-Life:Jan Owen was born Janette Muriel Sincock in Adelaide, South Australia, attending school there and in Melbourne, leaving early to work as a laboratory assistant...
, Boy with Telescope (Angus & Robertson) - 1985: Stephen J Williams, A Crowd of Voices (Pariah Press Co-op)
- 1984: Doris Brett, The truth about unicorns (Jacaranda Press)
- 1983: David BrooksDavid Brooks (author)David Gordon Brooks is an Australian author.He graduated from the Australian National University in 1974. He married Alison Summers in 1975. Brooks and Summers then studied abroad and received their M.A. degrees from the University of Toronto...
, The Cold Front (Hale & Iremonger) - 1982: Kate Llewellyn, Trader Kate and the Elephants (Friendly Street Poets); and Peter GoldsworthyPeter GoldsworthyPeter Goldsworthy AM is an Australian writer and medical practitioner. He has won awards for his short stories, poetry, novels, and opera libretti....
, Readings from Ecclesiastes (Angus & Robertson) - 1981: Gig RyanGig RyanGig Ryan, born Elizabeth Anna Martina Ryan, 5 November 1956, is an Australian poet, and daughter of notable Australian surgeon Peter John Ryan...
, The Division of Anger (Transit Press); and Jenny BoultJenny BoultJenny Boult , also known as MML Bliss, was an Australian poet, playwright, and editor.-Biography:Jenny Boult was born in Warwickshire, England in 1951 and migrated to Western Australia with her family in 1967...
, The hotel anonymous (Bent Enterprises) - 1980: Richard Lunn, Pompeii Deep Fry (Randolph Press)
- 1979: Les HarropLes HarropLes Harrop, born 1948, is an English and Australian writer, editor, and teacher.-Biography:Born at either Darwen or Blackpool in the English northwest, Harrop grew up speaking East Lancashire dialect in a working-class household on the edge of the Pennines. He was the middle one of three brothers...
, The Hum of the Old Suit (Angus & Robertson) - 1978: Lee CataldiLee CataldiLee Cataldi is a contemporary Australian poet and linguist.-Biography:Lee Cataldi was born in Sydney during World War II when, owing to her Italian heritage, she was technically an 'enemy alien'. As a child she lived in Hobart, moving back to Sydney for university...
, Invitation to a Marxist lesbian party (Wild & WoolleyWild & WoolleyWild & Woolley is an Australian book publisher founded in 1974 by Michael Wilding and Pat Woolley. The first books published by the firm were Zimmer's Essay and Wrappings by Vicki Viidikas....
) - 1977: Laurie DugganLaurie DugganLaurence "Laurie" James Duggan is an Australian poet, editor, and translator.-Life:Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne and attended Monash University, where his friends included the poets Alan Wearne and John A. Scott. Both he and Scott won the Monash Poetry Prize...
, East (R. Kenny); and Graeme Curtis, At Last No Reply (Makar Press)
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