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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.[1] The award is named after Australian poet Anne Elder (1918–1976).[2]

Award winners[]

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)[3]; Sandy Fitts, View from the Lucky Hotel (Five Islands Press)[4]
  • Highly Commended: Elizabeth Hodgson, Skin Painting
  • Commended: David Adès Mapping the World; Carol Jenkins, Fishing in the Devonians

2007[]

  • Winner: Judith Bishop, Event[5]
  • 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[6]
  • 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)[1]
  • 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)[7]
  • 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)[8]
  • 2003: Chris AndrewsTemplate:Disambiguation needed, Cut Lunch (Indigo)
  • 2002: Bronwyn Lea, Flight Animals (UQP)[9]
  • 1999: Amanda Stewart, I/T: Selected poems 1980-1996 (Here and There/Split Records)
  • 1998:Jane Williams, Outside Temple Boundaries (Five Islands Press)[10]
  • 1997: Morgan Yasbincek, Night Reversing (Fremantle Arts Centre Press)[11]
  • 1996: Marcella Polain, Dumbstruck (Five Islands)
  • 1995: Jennifer Harrison, Michelangelo's Prisoners (Black Pepper)[12]
  • 1994: Terry Whitebeach, Bird Dream in Four New Poets (Penguin)[13]
  • 1993: Nicolette Stasko, Abundance (Angus & Robertson)[14]
  • 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)[15]
  • 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)[16]

See also[]

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References[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 2005 National Literary Awards Results p. 2.
  2. ↑ McLaren, John. "Elder, Anne Josephine Chloe (1918 - 1976)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140098b.htm. 
  3. ↑ 2008 National Literary Awards Results
  4. ↑ Readings (Books, Music, Film). News. 5 May 2009
  5. ↑ 2007 National Literary Awards
  6. ↑ 2006 National Literary Awards Results p. 2.
  7. ↑ 2004 National Literary Awards Results p. 2.
  8. ↑ "Kathryn Lomer". The Write Stuff. http://www.the-write-stuff.com.au/archives/vol-7/kathryn_lomer/index.html. Retrieved 2007-10-23. 
  9. ↑ "Literature Board Members". Australia Council. http://www.ozco.gov.au/boards/literature/literature_board_members/. Retrieved 2007-10-23. 
  10. ↑ "The Poetry of Jane Williams". Thylazine Foundation. Archived from the original on 2007-09-06. http://web.archive.org/web/20070906172036/http://www.thylazine.org/thyla12/jw.html. Retrieved 2007-10-23. 
  11. ↑ "Australian Artists and Writers Directory - Y". Thylazine Foundation. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. http://web.archive.org/web/20070928040431/http://www.thylazine.org/directory/directy/. Retrieved 2007-10-23. 
  12. ↑ "The Poetry of Jennifer Harrison". Thylazine Foundation. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. http://web.archive.org/web/20070928040401/http://www.thylazine.org/archives/thyla2/jh.html. Retrieved 2007-10-23. 
  13. ↑ "The Poetry of Terry Whitebeach". Thylazine Foundation. http://www.thylazine.org/archives/thyla2/tw.html. Retrieved 2007-10-23.  Template:Dead link
  14. ↑ "Nicolette Stasko". Black Pepper Press. http://users.vic.chariot.net.au/~bpepper/stasko.html. Retrieved 2007-10-22. 
  15. ↑ "Guide to the Papers of Jan Owen". Australian Defence Force Academy. https://www.student.adfa.edu.au/library/speccoll/finding_aids/owen_jan.html. Retrieved 2007-10-23. 
  16. ↑ "Australian Artists and Writers Directory - Y". Thylazine Foundation. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. http://web.archive.org/web/20070928040323/http://www.thylazine.org/directory/directc/. Retrieved 2007-10-23. 


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