Peter Porter Poetry Prize
Entry deadline
- Entries for the 2022 Porter Prize will be accepted until midnight, 4 October 2021.
Prizes
- The winner will receive AU$6,000.
- The other four shortlisted poets will each receive AU$1,000
Who can en ...
Entry deadline
- Entries for the 2023 Porter Prize will be accepted until midnight, 3 October 2022.
Prizes
- The winner will receive AU$6,000.
- The other four shortlisted poets will each receive AU$1,000
Who can en ...
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'Oscillations', a new poem by Toby Fitch.
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The far margin of wintering wetlands,
mist before sunrise. Outside my window
a rock parrot is perched on its fence-post.
Taking note might prompt some things:
look! Even a colon finds correlation
with the eyes of Hoji’s frog, and the king’s.
You’ve always associated the two terms together
partly due to your reading of Schiller; partly due
to your watching of Kimba. Kimba sublimates
his mother in the water. You’ve always thought
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Port Phillip rucks & tears in the wind
and where the creek joins the bay, the lace
is tattered marl. Wild gulls pick