Judith Wright Prize

The Judith Wright Prize is awarded annually as part of the Arts ACT Poetry Prize for a book of poems published the previous year in book form by an Australian author.

The prize currently comes with a $10,000 (AUS) cash award.

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 (University of Western Australia Press)
 * Marcella Polain 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 Not Finding Wittgenstein (Giramondo)
 * Commended: Meredith Wattison Basket of Sunlight (Puncher & Wattmann)
 * Petra White 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 Sea Wall and River Light (Five Islands Press)
 * Winner: S. K. Kelen Earthly Delights (Pandanus)
 * Highly Commended: Robyn Rowland Silence and its Tongues
 * Michelle Cahill The Accidental Cage

2006

 * Winner: Susan Hampton The Kindly Ones (Five Islands Press)
 * Shortlisted: Adrian Caesar High Wire
 * Alan Gould The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973 – 2003
 * Jaya Savige Latecomers