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Gwen Harwood Memorial Poetry Prize
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Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize
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History
The Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize is sponsored by The Hobart Bookshop. It is open to single poems or linked suites not longer than 80 lines. There is a cash prize and publication with Island, as well as two minor prizes at the judges discretion.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2020-2021
winner The Memory of Water i "Autonomy's paupers, golden of limb", 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 161 2021; (p. 4-5) -
Year: 2018
winner On the Day You Launch i "The future of the earth is a series of goodbyes, so you", 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 156 2019; (p. 14) -
Year: 2017
winner The Munchian O i "Yes, that was me in the revolutionary belt, Che replicated, hung around my hips;", 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 151 2017; (p. 18) -
Year: 2016
winner Correspondence i "Dear electric one, you've gone, leaving breast-shaped insulators", 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , April no. 147 2016; (p. 21-23) -
Year: 2015
Works About this Award
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On Co-Judging the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize 2003 single work column
— Appears in: Island , Winter-Spring no. 93-94 2003; (p. 214-215) -
MTC Cronin Wins the 1997 Gwen Harwood Prize 1997 single work column
— Appears in: Five Bells , September vol. 4 no. 8 1997; (p. 11) -
Comments on Judging : The 1997 Gwen Harwood Memorial Poetry Prize 1997 single work column
— Appears in: Island , Spring/Summer no. 72/73 1997-1998; (p. 24)
