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Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2018
winner y Flute of Milk Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2017 10716651 2017 selected work poetry'The collection is in two parts, with each one interrogating love, loss, gender and aesthetics. The poems refract these themes through personal experience, as well as through a broader cultural lens. Some of these works are direct responses to the act of reading literature. The hallmark of this collection is precision with language: these works are always present and vivid.' (Publication summary)
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Year: 2011
winner y Walking on Ashes Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2009 Z1673737 2009 selected work poetry'The poems in Walking on Ashes present a war memoir told from a less-reported perspective: the point of view of life on the Australian homefront by a writer revisiting her WWII childhood and the absence of her father. The return of her father with a serious injury and the destruction of his hopes and subsequent alcoholism is the main thread running through this powerful collection.' (Publisher's blurb) -
Year: 2009
winner y The Edge of Everything Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2007 Z1491316 2007 selected work poetry'Don’t turn to this book for the facile or expect platitudes. Perlstone wrenches language and syntax to deliver to you an edgy and unique perspective. Well crafted, these poems are hard-won gems of insight. Follow her lens - she will (to misquote her) ‘... give you a reason to turn somewhere in your own mind'.
— Anna Kerdijk Nicholson' (Publisher's website)
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Year: 2007
winner y Tangible Shadows Charnwood : Ginninderra Press , 2005 Z1221136 2005 selected work poetry -
Year: 2005
winner y Naked in Sepia Goonellabah : Pocket Books Publications , 2004 Z1668264 2004 selected work poetry
Works About this Award
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Biennial Book Awards Poetry Competition 2011 : Judge's Report 2011-2012 single work column
— Appears in: Images , December - February 2011-2012; (p. 26)