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2017 Peter Porter Poetry Prize

Competitions and programs • 29 July 2014

On March 23, before a big audience at Collected Works Bookshop in Melbourne, Morag Fraser announced the two winners of the 2017 Peter Porter Poetry Prize (worth $7,500). The winners, chosen from a field of nearly 1000 entries from twenty-two countries, are Louis Klee (Vic) for his poem ‘Sentence to Lilacs’ and Damen O’Brien (Qld) for ‘pH’. The winners each receive $2,500. 2017 Porter Pr ... (read more)

Letters to the Editor - August 2016

August 2016, no. 383 • 26 July 2016

Perish the thought Dear Editor,Mark Triffitt's review of George Megalogenis's Australia's Second Chance: What our history tells us about our future and Balancing Act (May 2016) left me uninspired to read either work (ABR, May 2016). Megalogenis's ideas were described, and perhaps explained to some degree, but Dr Triffitt offered little critical analysis, presumably because he agrees with Megaloge ... (read more)

News from the Editor's Desk - August 2016

August 2016, no. 383 • 26 July 2016

JOLLEY PRIZE Highlights of the 2016 Fiction issue include the three works shortlisted in the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize (now worth a total of $12,500). We received a record number of entries – nearly 1,400 – from thirty-eight countries. The judges – ABR Deputy Editor Amy Baillieu and authors Maxine Beneba Clarke and David Whish-Wilson – chose a longlist of nineteen storie ... (read more)

The Update - July 26, 2016

ABR Arts • 26 July 2016

Bravo ABC! In recent years governments of different stamps have visited cuts on the ABC, and the Abbott government accused it of bias and irresponsibility. In recent days we have seen that wilfulness at work. 7.30 Report has exposed appalling sexual abuse of minors by Anglican priests and the protection of pederasts by the Anglican Church of Newcastle. Last night's Four Corners' revelations about ... (read more)

Episode #4: ABR States of Poetry NSW Launch at Gleebooks

The ABR Podcast • 19 July 2016

ABR's NSW 'States of Poetry' anthology was launched by state editor Elizabeth Allen and ABR Editor Peter Rose, at Gleebooks in Sydney earlier this year. ABR's esteemed Laureate David Malouf introduced the magazine's first Laureate's Fellow Michael Aiken who read extracts from his Fellowship project, 'Satan Repentant', an epic poem about themes of contrition. Elizabeth Allen, then introduced the si ... (read more)

The Update - July 12, 2016

ABR Arts • 12 July 2016

Mona Brand Award The State Library of NSW has launched the inaugural Mona Brand Award for Women Stage and Screen Writers, worth a total of $40,000. The award carries a major prize of $30,000 and an additional $10,000 prize for an emerging writer. The biennial award has been made possible by the bequest of Australian playwright and poet Mona Brand (1915–2007). Her socially relevant and controver ... (read more)

Poem of the Week - Andrew Sant reads 'Tamarillos'

Poem of the Week • 07 July 2016

In this episode of 'Poem of the Week' Andrew Sant reads 'Tamarillos'. ABR Editor, Peter Rose, introduces Andrew who then reads and discusses his poem.   Tamarillos Vertigo is nowherewhere they are, and time,too, seems suspended.Ovoid, working on ripenessdozens make no demandson the branches, light,they might be, as blown eggs,easily out of reach amongthe sunlit leaves. Tamarillos,tree to ... (read more)

States of Poetry 2016 ACT Podcast | 'reshelve' by Jen Crawford

States of Poetry Podcast - Series One • 29 June 2016

In this episode of Australian Book Review's States of Poetry podcast, Jen Crawford reads 'reshelve' which features in the 2016 ACT anthology.   reshelve in decades past a series of dykes was known as the veniceof the floods themselves, with a sweet sap once the prey has entered the trapthe leaf closes, and within about 30 secondsa senior minister has touchedtwo or three trigger hairs, ... (read more)

States of Poetry 2016 ACT Podcast | 'lopping' by Jen Crawford

States of Poetry Podcast - Series One • 29 June 2016

In this episode of Australian Book Review's States of Poetry podcast, Jen Crawford reads 'lopping' which features in the 2016 ACT anthology.   lopping 'privately'  inside  the  body  but  much  of  this  is  the  extra-somatic (GAWW - not symptomatic but coral. 'the 20th century's premier art mode', though at that point only as an infusio ... (read more)

States of Poetry 2016 ACT Podcast | extracts from 'abandoned house music' by Jen Crawford

States of Poetry Podcast - Series One • 29 June 2016

In this episode of Australian Book Review's States of Poetry podcast, Jen Crawford reads extracts from 'abandoned house music' which features in the 2016 ACT anthology. ;   Extracts from 'abandoned house music' messenger   I mother a scorching fenceI mother a child against a fence and the cry here come the shellshocked to arm the dayhere come collectors for the shells amber ... (read more)