John Bray Poetry Award
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The John Bray Poetry Award is awarded annually as part of the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, for a significant selection of new work by a poet published in a book. The award is named after the late Dr John Bray
for his services to Australian poetry.
Presently the prize is $15,000.
John Bray
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for his services to Australian poetry.
Presently the prize is $15,000.
2009
- Winner: 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...
- The Other Way Out (Giramondo PublishingGiramondo PublishingGiramondo Publishing is an Australian small press. It is a publisher of Australian literary writing and also published HEAT magazine until its closure in 2011....
) - Adam Aitkin - Eighth Habitation (Giramondo PublishingGiramondo PublishingGiramondo Publishing is an Australian small press. It is a publisher of Australian literary writing and also published HEAT magazine until its closure in 2011....
) - Pam BrownPam BrownPam Brown is an Australian poet.- Career :Brown was born in Seymour, Victoria, and her childhood was spent in on military bases in Toowoomba and Brisbane. Since her early twenties, she has mostly lived in Sydney...
- True Thoughts (Salt PublishingSalt PublishingSalt Publishing is an independent publisher whose origins date back to 1990 when poet John Kinsella launched Salt Magazine in Western Australia. The journal rapidly developed an international reputation as a leading publisher of new poetry and poetics...
) - Martin HarrisonMartin HarrisonMartin Allen Harrison is a former American football defensive end who played ten seasons in the National Football League for the San Francisco 49ers, the Minnesota Vikings, and the Seattle Seahawks. He played college football for the University of Washington...
- Wild Bees: New and Selected Poems (University of Western Australia Press) - Emma Jones (poet)Emma 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 FaberFaber and FaberFaber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the UK, notable in particular for publishing a great deal of poetry and for its former editor T. S. Eliot. Faber has a rich tradition of publishing a wide range of fiction, non fiction, drama, film and music...
) - Martin Langford - The Human Project: New and Selected Poems (Puncher & WattmannPuncher & WattmannPuncher & Wattmann is an independent Australian publishing house founded by David Musgrave in 2005. It specialises in publishing Australian poetry and literary fiction. Launched by David Malouf, its first title, James Stinks by Nick Riemer was placed third in the Mary Gilmore Award in 2006...
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