Anne Elder Award

The Anne Elder Award is given annually by the Fellowship of Australian Writers for the first publication in Australia of a first book of poetry. It was established in 1976 and is currently has a prize of A$1000 for the winner. The award is named after Australian poet Anne Elder (1918–1976).

2009

 * Winner: Emma Jones, The Striped World (Faber and Faber)
 * Highly Commended: Emily Ballou, The Darwin Poems (UWA Publishing)
 * Commended: Felicity Plunkett, Vanishing Point (University of Queensland Press)

2008

 * Winner: Sarah Holland-Batt, Aria (University of Queensland Press) ; Sandy Fitts, View from the Lucky Hotel (Five Islands Press)


 * Highly Commended: Elizabeth Hodgson, Skin Painting


 * Commended: David Adès Mapping the World; Carol Jenkins, Fishing in the Devonians

2007

 * Winner: Judith Bishop, Event
 * Commended: Elizabeth Campbell, Letters to the Tremulous Hand; Sarah French, Songs Orphans Sing; Hal Judge, Someone Forgot to Tell the Fish; Petra White, The Incoming Tide

2006

 * Winner: Libby Hart, Fresh News from the Arctic
 * Highly Commended: Luke Beesley, Lemon Shark; Francesca Haig Bodies of Water; Paul Magee Cube root of book
 * Commended: Jennifer Chrystie, Polishing the Silver; Nathan Shepherdson, Sweeping the Light Back Into the Mirror; Simon West, First Names

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 Cvetkovic, War is not the Season for Figs (UQP)
 * Highly Commended: Peter Lyssiotis, The Bird, The Belltower (Modern Writing); Miriam Wei Wei Lo, Against Certain Capture (Five Islands)
 * Commended: Lucy Alexander Feathered Tongues (Five Islands); David Musgrave To Thalia (Five Islands)

Prior to 2004

 * 2003: Kathryn Lomer, Extraction of Arrows (UQP)
 * 2003: Chris Andrews, Cut Lunch (Indigo)
 * 2002: Bronwyn Lea, Flight Animals (UQP)
 * 1999: Amanda Stewart, I/T: Selected poems 1980-1996 (Here and There/Split Records)
 * 1998:Jane Williams, Outside Temple Boundaries (Five Islands Press)
 * 1997: Morgan Yasbincek, Night Reversing (Fremantle Arts Centre Press)
 * 1996: Marcella Polain, Dumbstruck (Five Islands)
 * 1995: Jennifer Harrison, Michelangelo's Prisoners (Black Pepper)
 * 1994: Terry Whitebeach, Bird Dream in Four New Poets (Penguin)
 * 1993: Nicolette Stasko, Abundance (Angus & Robertson)
 * 1992: Christopher Kelen, The Naming of the Harbour and the Trees (Hale & Iremonger)
 * 1991: Alison Croggon, This is the Stone (Penguin Books)
 * 1990: Jean Kent, Verandahs  (Hale & Iremonger)
 * 1988: Alex Skovron, The Rearrangement (Melbourne University Press)
 * 1987: Sarah Day, A Hunger to be Less Serious (Angus & Robertson)
 * 1986: Jan Owen, Boy with Telescope (Angus & Robertson)
 * 1985: Caroline Caddy, Letters from the north (Fremantle Arts Centre Press)
 * 1984: Doris Brett, The truth about unicorns (Jacaranda Press)
 * 1983: David Brooks,  The Cold Front (Hale & Iremonger)
 * 1982: Gig Ryan,  The Division of Anger (Transit Press); and Peter Goldsworthy,  Readings from Ecclesiastes (Angus & Robertson)
 * 1981: Jenny Boult, The hotel anonymous (Bent Enterprises); and Philip Salom, The Silent Piano (Fremantle Arts Centre Press)
 * 1980: Les Harrop, The Hum of the Old Suit (Angus & Robertson)
 * 1979: Lee Cataldi, Invitation to a Marxist lesbian party (Wild & Woolley)