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Peter Porter Poetry Prize

Read the advances from the advances from the March 2024 issue of ABR.

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Welcome back to the ABR Podcast. We begin 2024 with the Peter Porter Poetry Prize. First presented in 2005, the Porter Prize is one of the world’s leading competitions for a new poem in English. It is worth a total of $10,000, of which the overall winner will receive $6,000. This episode of the ABR Podcast features the five shortlisted poets reading from their work, with introductions from ABR Editor Peter Rose. The winning poem will be announced at an online ceremony on 23 January 2024. To register for this event, visit our website.  

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Read the five shortlisted poems for ABR's 2024 Peter Porter Poetry Prize.

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Read the advances from the advances from the January-February 2024 issue of ABR

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This week on the ABR Podcast we celebrate twenty years of the Peter Porter Poetry Prize with readings from six winners. We invited these poets to reflect on the prize and their winning poems. Hear fresh readings from Judith Beveridge, A. Frances Johnson, Damen O’Brien, Sara M. Saleh, Alex Skovron and Judith Bishop. The 2024 Porter Prize, worth a total of $10,000, closes on October 9.

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Entries have now closed for the twentieth Peter Porter Poetry Prize, which was open to all international poets from 3 July 2023 until midnight, 9 October 2023. The Porter Prize is one of Australia’s most lucrative and respected poetry awards. It honours the life and work of the great Australian poet Peter Porter (1929–2010), an honoured contributor to ABR for many years. First presented in 2005, the Porter Prize is one of the world’s leading prizes for a new poem. It is worth a total of  AU$10,000 – with a first prize of $6,000

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'The Pelican Feeder', a new poem by Damen O'Brien

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'Kurraarr Far Country', a new poem by Julie Janson.

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In this week’s Podcast we’re delighted to present the five poems shortlisted in the 2023 Peter Porter Poetry Prize. This happily alliterative prize was created in 2005 and renamed in 2011, the year after the great poet’s death. Peter Rose introduces our far-flung quintet, who then introduce and read their poems. Further details and illuminating comments on the individual poems by the judges can be found here. We hope you enjoy these wonderful poems. It’s a great way to get to know them before the prize ceremony on Thursday, 19 January.

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The 2023 Shortlist

by Australian Book Review
January-February 2023, no. 450

Read the five shortlisted poems for ABR's 2023 Peter Porter Poetry Prize.

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