AustLit
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2012
winner y Taller When Prone Melbourne : 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.) -
Year: 2010
winner y The Other Way Out Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2008 Z1549407 2008 selected work poetry -
Year: 2008
winner y Urban Myths : 210 Poems : New and Selected St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 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 -
Year: 2004
winner y Wild Surmise Sydney : 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)