ABR Poetry Prize

ABR Poetry Prize

Entry to the sixth annual Australian Book Review Poetry Prize is now open. First place prize money is $4000, and shortlisted poems receive $250 each.

Closing date for entries is 1 December 2009.

The ABR Poetry Prize is one of Australia’s most lucrative and respected awards for poetry, and guarantees winners wide exposure through publication in ABR.
No local poetry prize offers comparable recognition in a literary review.

Click here for entry form.

Poets must reside in Australia or be Australian citizens living overseas. Each entry must be a single poem of no more than 100 lines. Multiple entries are permitted, and all poems will be judged anonymously. A shortlist comprising a maximum of six poems will be announced and those poems published in the March 2010 issue of ABR. The winner will be announced in the April 2010 issue.

Fifth ABR Poetry Prize (2009) shortlist - and winning poem

*Winner of the Poetry Prize.

Rose Lucas, ‘Yellow Jacket (Vespula maculifrons)
*Tracy Ryan, 'Lost Property'
Kathryn Lomer, 'The Dark Zone'
Lisa Gorton, 'The Storm Glass'
Angela Malone, 'The Reed Pen'
Judith Beveridge, 'The Aquarium'