AustLit
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2012
winner y
Taller When Prone
Melbourne
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Black Inc.
,
2010
Z1679100
2010
selected work
poetry
'Taller When Prone is Les Murray's first volume of new poems since 2006's The Biplane Houses. With characteristic grace and dexterity, these poems combine a mastery of form with a matchless ear for the Australian vernacular. Many evoke rural life here and abroad - its rhythms and rituals, the natural world, the landscape and the people who have shaped it. There are traveller's tales, elegies, meditative fragments and satirical sketches. Above all there is Murray's astonishing versatility, on display here at its exhilarating best.' (From the publisher's website.)
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Year: 2010
winner y
The Other Way Out
Artarmon
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Giramondo Publishing
,
2008
Z1549407
2008
selected work
poetry
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Year: 2008
winner y
Urban Myths : 210 Poems : New and Selected
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
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2006
Z1268860
2006
selected work
poetry
(taught in 4 units)
'Urban Myths: 210 Poems brings the best work to date from a poet considered one of the most original of his generation in Australia, together with a generous selection of new work. Smart, wry and very stylish, John Tranter’s poems investigate the vagaries of perception and the ability of language to converge life, imagination and art so that we arrive, unexpectedly, at the deepest human mysteries.' (Publication summary)
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Year: 2006
winner y
Totem : Totem Poem Plus 40 Love Poems
Totem : Totem Poem Plus Forty Love Poems
Crows Nest
:
Allen and Unwin
,
2004
Z1122290
2004
selected work
poetry
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Year: 2004
winner y
Wild Surmise
Sydney
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Picador
,
2002
Z982831
2002
single work
novel
(taught in 6 units)
'Alex Leefson is astronomy's glamour girl, in love with the satellite Europa and the equally unreachable Phoebe. Meanwhile, her husband Daniel mourns the demise of his marriage and his life. Full of Dorothy Porter's customary bite and sensuality, Wild Surmise is an engrossing duet between two passionately estranged voices. An intensely moving verse novel of passions and vulnerabilities, love and death.' (Publication summary)
Works About this Award
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John Tranter's Loud Echo of Applause 2008 single work column
— Appears in: ArtState , no. 21 2008; (p. 9)
