Information (250)
Children categories
Thanking our Partners (15)
Australian Book Review is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and is also supported by the South Australian Government through Arts South Australia. We also acknowledge the generous support of our university partner, Monash University; and we are grateful for the support of the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, Good Business Foundation (an initiative of Peter McMullin AM), the Sidney Myer Fund, Australian Communities Foundation, Sydney Community Foundation, AustLit, Readings, our travel partner Academy Travel, the City of Melbourne; our publicists, Pitch Projects; and Arnold Bloch Leibler.
View items...Porter Prize Frequently Asked Questions
Do I have to be a paid ABR subscriber to enter?
No, you do not have to be a paid ABR subscriber to enter our prizes. However, you will need to sign in to an existing account or create a new one in order to enter.
Why do I need to sign in?
Non-subscribers who enter an ABR prize receive a free four-month digital subscription. If you are a non-subscriber, simply create a new account as part of your entry.
Current subscribers who sign in will gain access to the discounted entry rate. If you are not a current subscriber but your email is associated with an old account, signing in enables us to automatically process your complimentary digital access or bundled subscription.
If you have previously entered an ABR prize, you will have received a free four-month digital subscription. This means your details exist in our system and you will need to sign in to enter. See below if you have forgotten your sign-in details.
I have forgotten my Username/Password
If you do not know your sign-in details, visit Forgot Username or Forgot Password to update them. If you have any problems, please contact us by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or by calling the ABR office on (03) 9699 8822 during work hours.
I don’t live in Australia and I am not an Australian citizen. Can I still enter?
Yes, you can. Anyone can enter the Porter Prize. But all poems must be written in English.
I’m interested in the Porter Prize but don’t know much about it. How can I familiarise myself with the competition?
This is the twenty-first time Australian Book Review has presented a poetry prize. Past issues containing the shortlisted and winning poems are available for subscribers to read online in our online archive, or to purchase in hard-copy from our online store.
Click here for more information about past winners.
How can I find out more about Australian Book Review?
ABR is a literary and cultural magazine that appears in print and online eleven times a year.You can purchase print and/or digital subscriptions here, with digital subscriptions starting from just $10 per month. You can also order individual copies of the print edition.
Who was Peter Porter?
Peter Porter – born in Queensland and based in London for almost all his adult life – was one of Australia’s greatest poets. His vast body of poetry was gathered in two Collected Poems, and his poems appear in any serious anthology of Australian or British verse. They are well represented in Copyright Agency’s Australian Poetry Library. His most famous poetry collection is The Cost of Seriousness (1978). Porter edited several anthologies, including The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse (1996). He wrote thousands of reviews, essays, lectures, and introductions. His work appeared in Australian Book Review from 1985 to 2010. His fellow poet–critic Peter Steele, who wrote a monograph on Porter, published this tribute in ABR following Peter Porter’s death on 23 April 2010. ABR’s poetry prize was renamed in his honour following his death.
When will the 2025 Porter Prize close?
Entries close at midnight, 7 October 2024 AEST.
Is there a set theme or topic for the Porter Prize?
No, poems can be on any subject and in any style.
How do I know if my poem is an eligible length to enter the Porter Prize?
Entries can be up to 60 lines long. The following are not included in the 60-line limit: the title of the poem, epigraph, stanza breaks, and internal numbers.
To be eligible for entry in the Porter Prize, poems must not have been previously published. What constitutes ‘publication’?
Publication includes, but is not limited to, publication in print and online (for example in a journal/magazine/anthology or on a website). Publication on a personal blog/website/social media constitutes publication. If a poem has been written and assessed as part of a writing course but has not been distributed further, this does not constitute publication.
My poem was shortlisted/commended for another prize, may I enter it in the Porter Prize?
If your poem was shortlisted/commended for another prize but was not published, then it may be entered in the Porter Prize. Please contact us if you are unsure about eligibility.
Can I submit or publish the work I have entered in the Prize elsewhere while I await notification?
Entries may be offered elsewhere during the judging of the Porter Prize. If an entrant is longlisted and has their poem offered elsewhere, the entrant will have 24 hours to decide if they would like to withdraw their poem on offer elsewhere or from the Porter Prize. Exclusivity is essential for longlisted poems.
Can I enter multiple poems in one entry?
No. Separate entries must be made, and entry fees paid, for each poem entered into the Porter Prize. This is to ensure that a record is kept of each poem entered, and also to ensure that payment is successfully made for each.
Is there a limit to the number of poems I can enter?
No, but as stated above, each poem must be entered and paid for separately, as individual entries.
Can I enter my story using a pseudonym?
Works must be entered under a real name. Internally, ABR ensures that names are not associated with essays for the judging process. Essays are strictly blind judged. Should your work be shortlisted and named, pseudonyms will not be acceptable. For publicity reasons, all shortlisted authors must be publicly named.
I have written a poem with a friend, are we eligible to enter the Porter Prize?
No, poems entered into the Porter Prize must be written by one individual author.
Are translated poems eligible for entry in the Porter Prize?
No.
What are the prizes on offer in the 2025 Porter Prize?
The Porter Prize is now worth a total of $10,000. The shortlisted poems will be published in the January–February 2025 issue. The winner will receive $6,000. The other four shortlisted poets will each receive $1,000.
Can I pay the discounted entry fee?
Current print and digital subscribers may pay the discounted entry fee of AU$20 per entry. Non-subscribers pay AU$30 per entry. If you would like to subscribe to Australian Book Review in print or digital, click here.
Alternatively you can purchase a yearly digital subscription to ABR with your entry for the combined price of AU$100. You will be entitled to enter any additional poems at the discounted rate. We also offered combined print subscriptions and Porter entry packages. A full list of these rates appears below:
Porter Entry (Subscriber): $20
Porter Entry (Non-Subscriber)*: $30
Porter Entry + ABR one-year digital subscription: $100
Porter Entry + ABR one-year print subscription (within Australia): $120
Porter Entry + ABR one-year print subscription (within New Zealand/Asia): $200
Porter Entry + ABR one-year print subscription (ROW): $220
* Entrants who choose not to subscribe when entering the Porter Prize, and who are not already current ABR subscribers, will be provided with digital access to ABR, free of charge, for four months. Eligible entrants will be contacted when their complimentary subscription has been activated.
Note: Print subscribers must provide their subscriber number to be eligible for the discounted rate (this can be found on the flysheet sent out with the magazine, or on renewal notices – alternatively, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we will provide you with your subscriber number). Likewise, yearly digital subscribers to ABR must provide the email address with which they registered the online subscription.
Can I pay with PayPal?
At this time we are accepting credit card payments ONLY – Visa and MasterCard. We regret that we cannot accept AMEX at this time.
Will I receive confirmation of payment?
Yes, once you have submitted your online entry and payment form, you will receive a confirmation email at the email address you supplied in the form. Keep a copy for your records. If you cannot find the confirmation email, be sure to check that it has not gone to your spam or junk folders.
Can I enter by post?
No, entries must be submitted online.
Who are the judges this year?
The 2025 judges are Sarah Holland-Batt, Paul Kane, and Peter Rose.
Will you give me feedback about my poem?
We don’t have the time or resources to comment on individual poems.
How should I format my poem?
Entries should be presented with 1.5 line spacing and in 12 pt font size. The pages of poems should be numbered. The author’s name must not appear on the manuscript or in the name of the digital file.
How can I stay in touch with news about the Porter Prize?
If you have provided us with a current email address we will contact you with news about the Prize. Another way to stay up to date with news about the Prize and other ABR prizes and events is to sign up to our free monthly e-News. You can also follow us on Twitter or like us on Facebook.
Where can I find the complete terms and conditions of entry?
These can be found here.
My question isn't answered here, what should I do?
If you have a question about the Porter Prize that isn't answered here, or in the entry guidelines, please contact us via the comments facility below and we will respond when we can.
ABR contributor list (1978-present)
Welcome to the ABR contributor list. Here you will find a list of all the contributors who have written for ABR since 1978 and the issue numbers in which they were published.
1978 (issue number 1–7)
1979 (8–17)
1980 (18–27)
1981 (28–37)
1982 (38–47)
1983(48–57)
1984 (58–67)
1985 (68–77)
1986 (78–87)
1987 (87–97)
1988 (98–107)
1989 (108–117)
1990 (118–127)
1991 (128–137)
1992 (138–147)
1993 (148–157)
1994 (158–167)
1995 (168–177)
1996 (178–187)
1997 (188–197)
1998 (198–207)
1999 (208–217)
2000 (218–227)
2001 (228–237)
2002 (238–247)
2003 (248-257)
2004 (258-267)
2005 (268-277)
2006 (278–287)
2007 (288–297)
2008 (298–307)
2009 (308–317)
2010 (318–327)
2011 (328–337)
2012 (338–347)
2013 (348–357)
2014 (358–367)
2015 (368–377
2016 (378–387)
This list will be regularly updated every six months to include contributors to new issues. If you are interested in writing for Australian Book Review, you can find all the relevant information here.
2013 Porter Prize Winner: John A. Scott
Four Sonnets
The Drowning of Charles Kruger, Fireman
(St Valentine’s Day, 1908)
Comes a fire into Canal Street:
its rows of clapboard tenements rotting back
to marsh. He knows it too well, the ‘furniture
district’. This time, a fire built on picture frames.
Charles Kruger drops onto what he thought
a cellar floor, finding instead his New World to be
eight feet of seepage bound by stone. He kicks
back to smoky air. From above come voices.
Lanterns play upon the shifting surface, sending
wobblings of light across the walls (ectoplasm
of his own trembling device) – the ghost of him
seeking release. He gives it up. Warbles out
his love. He takes the eager water: a brief
consummation made of thrashing arms.
Gustav Mahler in New York (1908)
It is the bass drum which has summoned him.
The dull collisions of felted wool against calf
skin. The end of everything, he knows, these
muted thuds.
The Mahlers have taken an
eleventh-floor suite (there are two grand pianos),
at the Hotel Majesticon Central Park West.
He joins Alma at the window. Directly below,
is the halted cortège of Charles Kruger.
Once more, the tufted mallet meets the drum
head. He sees the tight-packed waves speed
upwards, rattle through the window and collide
with his chest. He recoils. Curves his body at
the waist. A bow (conductor to his audience),
only contorted thus, gasping for air.
Mahler at Toblach (1910)
Madness, seize me and destroy me,
he scrawls across the staves. To the movement
(purgatorio)he adds a final, isolated note. Marks
it thus – ‘completely muffled drum’. At which
the four-paned windows of the häuschen burst
apart and the room fills with grey feathers.
He rises, choking. A storm of plumaged air
beating at his face. Then gone. He gathers up
the sketches from the floor. The young architect
has declared his love – (misaddressing it, he
claims, to Herr Direktor Mahler). My Almschili
he scrawls, You are not ashamed, it is I who am.
Alas, I still love you.Who finds his mouth
crammed full with soaked grey feathers.
Epilogue (1911)
Back in New York the throat infection re-
occurs. He conducts Busoni’s Berceuse
Élégiaque and returns to Europe.
Bacteria now gather at the lesioned heart.
‘My Almachi’, he cries again (again). At some
point the kidneys fail. Black water seeps into
his lungs. He drowns by tiny increments –
the death mask imparts a serenity
not on display during his final hours.
He has entrusted his sketches of the
Tenth to Alma. In the salon she tears
the most damning scrawl from the manuscript.
Carries it to the fire. Sets it to flame.
Past winners of the Peter Porter Poetry Prize
ABR subscribers can read all previous prize-winning and shortlisted poems to the Porter Prize. If you aren't a subscriber, digital subscriptions begin at only $10 per month. Click here to become an ABR subscriber.
2024
Dan Hogan: ‘Workarounds’
Dan Hogan is the winner of the 2024 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, worth a total of $10,000. The winner was named at a virtual ceremony on 23 January 2024.
Dan Hogan’s winning poem is titled ‘Workarounds’, for which they receive $6,000. The other four shortlisted poets each receive $1,000. The full shortlist, including the winning poem, is available to read online.
This year’s judges – Lachlan Brown, Dan Disney, and Felicity Plunkett – shortlisted five poems from 1,066 entries. The shortlisted poets were Judith Nangala Crispin (NSW), Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon (WA), Dan Hogan (NSW), Meredi Ortega (Scotland/UK), and Dženana Vucic (Germany).
2023
Dan Disney: 'periferal, fantasmal’
Dan Disney is the winner of the 2023 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, worth a total of $10,000. The winner was named at a virtual ceremony on 19 January 2023.
Dan Disney's winning poem is titled 'periferal, fantasmal', for which he receives $6,000. The other four shortlisted poets each receive $1,000. The full shortlist, including the winning poem, is available to read online.
This year’s judges – Sarah Holland-Batt, James Jiang, and Des Cowley – shortlisted five poems from 1,132 entries. The shortlisted poets were Chris Andrews (Australia), Chris Arnold (Australia), Michelle Cahill (Australia), Dan Disney (South Korea), and Raisa Tolchinsky (United States).
2022
Anthony Lawrence: 'In the Shadows of Our Heads'
Anthony Lawrence is the winner of the 2022 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, worth a total of $10,000. The winner was named at a virtual ceremony on 19 January 2022.
Anthony Lawrence's winning poem is titled 'In the Shadows of Our Heads', for which he receives $6,000. The other four shortlisted poets each receive $1,000. The full shortlist, including the winning poem, is available to read online.
This year’s judges – Sarah Holland-Batt, Jaya Savige, and Anders Villani – shortlisted five poems from 1,328 entries, from 34 countries. The shortlisted poets were Chris Arnold (WA), Dan Disney (South Korea), Michael Farrell (Vic), Anthony Lawrence (Qld), and Debbie Lim (NSW).
2021
Sara M. Saleh: 'A Poetics of Fo(u)rgetting'
Sara M. Saleh is the winner of the 2021 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, worth a total of $10,000. The winner was named at a virtual ceremony on 27 January 2021.
Sara M. Saleh's winning poem is titled 'A Poetics of Fo(u)rgetting', for which she receives $6,000. The other four shortlisted poets each receive $1,000. The full shortlist, including the winning poem, is available to read online.
This year’s judges – John Hawke, Lachlan Brown, A. Frances Johnson, and John Kinsella – shortlisted five poems from 1,329 entries, from 33 countries. The shortlisted poets were Danielle Blau (USA), Y.S. Lee (Canada), Jazz Money (NSW), Sara M. Saleh (NSW), and Raisa Tolchinsky (USA).
2020
A. Frances Johnson: 'My Father's Thesaurus'
A. Frances Johnson is the winner of the 2020 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, worth a total of $9,000. The winner was named at a ceremony at the Boyd Hub Community Center in Melbourne on January 16.
A. Frances Johnson's winning poem is titled 'My Father's Thesaurus'. She receives $7,000. The other four shortlisted poets each receive $500. The full shortlist, including the winning poem, is available to read online and is published in the January–February issue of ABR.
This year’s judges – John Hawke, Bronwyn Lea, and Philip Mead – shortlisted five poems from almost 1,050 entries, from 30 countries. The shortlisted poets were Lachlan Brown (NSW), Claire G. Coleman (Vic.), Ross Gillett (Vic.), A. Frances Johnson (Vic. ), and Julie Manning (QLD).
2019
Andy Kissane: 'Searching the Dead'
Belle Ling: '63 Temple Street, Mong Kok'
Andy Kissane and Belle Ling are the joint winners of the 2019 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, worth a total of $8,500. The winners were named at a ceremony at fortyfivedownstairs in Melbourne on 18 March 2019.
This year’s judges – Judith Bishop, John Hawke, Paul Kane – shortlisted five poems from almost 900 entries, from 28 countries. The shortlisted poets were John Foulcher (ACT), Ross Gillett (Vic.), Andy Kissane (NSW), Belle Ling (QLD/Hong Kong), and Mark Tredinnick (NSW).
Porter Prize judge Judith Bishop (representing the judges) commented:
In Belle Ling’s '63 Temple St, Mong Kok', other voices are rendered equally as vividly as the speaker’s own. Together they create the generous and gentle texture of this exceptionally resonant work.
‘Andy Kissane’s 'Searching the Dead' recounts a moment in Australian history – our soldiers’ involvement in the Vietnam War – that has not been captured before in this way. This dense, strongly physical and evocative poem grips the reader’s mind and body, and that imprint remains long after reading.
The shortlisted poems were: '63 Temple St, Mong Kok' by Belle Ling (joint winner, Qld/Hong Kong), 'Searching the Dead' by Andy Kissane (joint winner), 'Dancing with Stephen Hawking' by John Foulcher, 'The Mirror Hurlers' by Ross Gillett, and 'Raven' by Mark Tredinnick.
2018
Nicholas Wong: '101, Taipei'
Nicholas Wong is the winner of the 2018 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, now worth a total of $8,500. Louis Klee, the 2017 winner, made the announcement at a special event at fortyfivedownstairs on Monday, 19 March. Nicholas Wong, who flew from Hong Kong to attend the Porter ceremony, receives $5,000. His winning poem, published in the March 2018 issue of Australian Book Review is titled ‘101, Taipei’.
Nicholas Wong, on winning the Prize, said: ‘I’m honoured and humbled to be the winner, especially with a poem whose subject matter may seem foreign. Winning the Porter Prize also allows me to reach out to Australian readers.’
This year’s judges – John Hawke, Bill Manhire, Jen Webb – shortlisted poems by five poets. They were chosen from a record field of almost 1,000 poems. Tracey Slaughter’s poem ‘breather’ was placed second. She receives $2,000 – the other three shortlisted poets $500 each.
The shortlisted poems were: 'Compass' by Eileen Chong, 'Decoding Paul Klee’s Mit Grünen Strümpfen (With Green Stockings) 1939' by Katherine Healy, 'The Abstract Blue Background' by LK Holt, 'breather' by Tracey Slaughter (second place, New Zealand), and '101, Taipei' by Nicholas Wong (winner, Hong Kong).
2017
Louis Klee: 'Sentence to Lilacs'
Damen O'Brien: 'pH'
2017 Porter Prize winnersLouis Klee and Damen O'Brien are the joint winners of the 2017 Peter Porter Poetry Prize for their poems 'Sentence to Lilacs' and 'pH'. Morag Fraser named them as the winners at a ceremony at Collected Works Bookshop in Melbourne on March 23. The winners each receive $2,500 for their poems which were selected from almost 1000 entries, the Porter Prize's largest field to date.
The judges were Ali Alizadeh, Jill Jones, and Felicity Plunkett.
The shortlisted poems were: 'Sentence to Lilacs' by Louis Klee (joint winner), 'pH' by Damen O'Brien (joint winner), 'Four Egrets' by Ronald Dzerigian (USA), 'Laika' by Anthony Lawrence, 'Drone' by Michael Lee Phillips (USA), 'The Snow Lies Deep' by Jen Saunders, and 'and it is what it is' by Jessie Tu. The shortlisted poets receive $500 each. The seven shortlisted poems appear in ABR’s March 2017 issue.
2016
Amanda Joy: 'Tailings'
Amanda Joy is the winner of the 2016 Peter Porter Poetry Prize for her poem ‘Tailings’. Morag Fraser named Amanda as the overall winner at a ceremony at Boyd Community Hub in Melbourne. Amanda receives $5,000 for her poem, which was selected from a field of around 730 poems. She also receives Arthur Boyd’s etching and aquatint The unicorn and the angel, 1975 from the series The lady and the unicorn, 1975, donated by Ivan Durrant in memory of Georges Mora.
The judges were Luke Davies, Lisa Gorton, and Kate Middleton. They commented:‘“Tailings” is a poem remarkable for its close-woven language, everywhere charged with vivid details; and, at the same time, remarkable for its open and wide-ranging attentiveness. In “Tailings” the poet nowhere sets place at an aesthetic distance but everywhere attends to its mess and profligacy, a mode of perception alive to the hunger of animals.’
The shortlisted poems were: 'Tailings' by Amanda Joy (winner), '... a passing shower?' by Dan Disney, 'Prelude to a Voiice' by Anne Elvey, 'Rage to Order' by Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet (USA), and 'Lament for "Cape" Kennedy' by Campbell Thomson. The shortlisted poets receive $625 each.
2015
Judith Beveridge: 'As Wasps Fly Upwards'
Judith Beveridge is the winner of the 2015 Peter Porter Poetry Prize for her poem ‘As Wasps Fly Upwards’. Morag Fraser named Judith as the overall winner at a ceremony at Collected Works Bookshop in Melbourne. Judith receives $5,000 for her poem, which was selected from a field of around 600 poems. She reflected: ‘I am deeply honoured to have won the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, not only because of the high regard I have for Peter Porter’s poetry and for Australian Book Review, but also because of the very strong 2015 shortlist. I loved all the poems and was truly surprised to hear I’d won. My sincere thanks to ABR for continuing this prestigious prize, which is a great support for poets.’
The shortlisted poems were: 'As Wasps Fly Upward' by Judith Beveridge (winner), 'Vantage' by Eileen Chong, 'Janus' by Toby Fitch, 'Floribunda' by John Kinsella, 'When/Was' by Kate Middleton, and 'Pitch and Yaw' by Alex Skovron. The shortlisted poets receive $500 each. All six shortlisted poems can be read here.
The judges were Lisa Gorton, Paul Kane, and Peter Rose.
2014
Jessica L. Wilkinson: 'Arrival Platform Humlet'
Jessica L. Wilkinson was the winner of the tenth Peter Porter Poetry Prize for her poem ‘Arrival Platform Humlet’, about Percy Grainger. She reflected: ‘For anyone in attendance, my shock at winning the prize was apparent. I entered a state of speechlessness! But I am truly honoured that my poem was recognised in this way and immensely grateful to the judges, Lisa Gorton and Felicity Plunkett.’
The shortlisted poems were: 'VFGA' by Paul Kane (USA), 'Absence' by Elizabeth Allen, 'Scenes from the Olivet Discourse' by Nathan Curnow, and 'Arrival Platform Humlet' by Jessica L. Wilkinson (winner). This was the first time that the Porter Prize was open to international entrants. They appeared in the May 2014 issue.
2013
John A. Scott: 'Four Sonnets'
At a function at Boyd, John A. Scott was named the winner of the 2013 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, worth $4,000. Remarkably, his winning entry, ‘Four Sonnets’, is his first new poem in a quarter of a century. Not that Mr Scott has been idle during this time. He is the author of sixteen books to date. His novel What I Have Written won a Victorian Premier’s Prize in 1994, and his novels Before I Wake (1996) and The Architect (2002) were shortlisted for several awards, including the Miles Franklin Award. He has a new book coming out this year with Brandl & Schlesinger, the experimental novel N. On winning the prize, John A. Scott told us: ‘I’m honoured to have won the Peter Porter Poetry Prize with my first new poem in nearly twenty-five years. Doubly honoured in fact, having long regarded Peter Porter as Australia’s finest poet.’
The judges were Peter Rose, David McCooey, and Bronwyn Lea. The shortlisted poems were: 'Prophecy' by Nathan Curnow, 'Big Wig' by A. Frances Johnson, 'Four Sonnets' by John A. Scott (winner), 'procedures in aesthetics' by Dan Disney, and 'Bushfire Approaching' by John Kinsella. They appeared in the March 2013 issue.
2012
Michael Farrell: 'Beautiful Mother'
Michael Farrell is the winner of the 2012 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, worth $4,000. Our judges, Judith Beveridge and David McCooey, selected his poem, ‘Beautiful Mother’, from almost 800 entries. On learning of his success, Mr Farrell told us: 'It’s exciting to have won the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, especially from such a large field. It’s an honour to be linked with Peter Porter, whom I was lucky enough to meet on several charming occasions. The poem itself betrays several hauntings: not least a scene from television that’s stayed with me since I was probably four or five, of Kimba the white lion swimming back to the jungle, a vision of his mother in the sky encouraging him.'
The shortlisted poems were: 'Provenance' by Gareth Robinson, 'Bayside Suburban' by Anne Elvey, 'Beautiful Mother' by Michael Farrell (winner), 'After Devotion' by Annamaria Weldon, and 'Oscillations' by Toby Fitch. They appeared in the March 2012 issue.
2011
Judith Bishop: 'Openings'
Tony Lintermans: 'Self-portrait at Sixty'
For the first time, two poets have shared our Poetry Prize. The judges – Morag Fraser and Peter Rose – couldn’t separate Judith Bishop (‘Openings’) and Tony Lintermans (‘Self-portrait at Sixty’). Each poet receives $2000. Almost five hundred poems were entered this year.
Judith Bishop – who becomes the first person to win ABR’s Poetry Prize twice – told us: ‘To win a prize dedicated to the memory of a poet of Peter Porter’s calibre, range, and emotional depth is deeply humbling.’
Tony Lintermans likewise reflected on Peter Porter’s legacy, and humanity: ‘What a joy to share the Peter Porter Poetry Prize. The only time I met Peter Porter, at an Adelaide Festival years ago, he was typically generous and thoughtful in his comments. I think of this poem as a small and sadly belated answer to his kindness.’
The shortlisted poems were: 'Self-Portrait at Sixty' by Tony Lintermans (joint winner), 'Dreams and Artefacts' by Lisa Gorton, 'Moonlight Sculptures' by Stephen Edgar, 'Openings' by Judith Bishop (joint winner), and 'Humility' by Alex Skovron. They appeared in the March 2011 issue.
2010
Anthony Lawrence: 'Domestic Emergencies'
Australian Book Review has much pleasure in announcing the winner of the sixth annual Australian Book Review Poetry Prize. Anthony Lawrence received $4,000 for his poem ‘Domestic Emergencies’. The judges – Ian Donaldson, Morag Fraser, and Peter Rose – chose the poem from a field of just under 400 poems.
On winning the prize, Anthony said: ‘I’m thrilled to have won the Australian Book Review’s poetry prize. I’ve been reading the Australian Book Review for many years and the fact that it gives serious space and consideration to poetry, both in its reviews and the publishing of individual poems, is to be celebrated.’
The shortlisted poems were: 'Taken as Required' by Ynez Sanz, 'The Hummingbird Suite' by Diane Fahey, 'Here Come the Missionaries' by Philip Salom, 'Estuary' by Jillian Pattinson, and 'Domestic Emergencies' by Anthony Lawrence (winner). They appeared in the April 2010 issue.
2009
Tracy Ryan: 'Lost Property'
Australian Book Review has much pleasure in announcing the winner of the fifth annual Australian Book Review Poetry Prize. Tracy Ryan received $4,000 for her poem ‘Lost Property’. The judges – Paul Hetherington, Morag Fraser, and Peter Rose – chose the poem from a field of approximately 500 poems.
On being told of her success, Tracy said: ‘I’m honoured, delighted, and very surprised. I’m a keen reader of the ABR but have never published a poem in it before. This is a pleasant way to start! And the poem belongs to an unpublished manuscript of new work, tentatively called The Argument. It feels as if the award somehow helps bring that new book into being.’
The shortlisted poems were: 'Yellow Jacket: Vespula maculifrons' by Rose Lucas, Lost Porperty by Tracy Ryan (winner), 'The Dark Zone' by Kathryn Lomer, 'The Storm Glass' by Lisa Gorton, 'The Reed Pen' by Angela Mahone, and 'The Aquarium' by Judith Beveridge. They appeared in the March 2009 issue.
2008
Ross Clark: 'Danger: Lantana'
Ross Clark was the winner of the fourth ABR Poetry Prize for his poem ‘Danger: Lantana’. His poem 'Full-Bucket Moon' was shortlisted for the third ABR Poetry Prize.
Reacting to his win, Clark commented: ‘Both shortlisted poems created memories within rural settings; the former’s fictionality is more obvious, but both poems are songs made from the sweepings of my mind, both begin in the rag-and-bone shop of history and locality. I’m thrilled to have won, and hope the readers of ABR will hear the creek flowing again in these words.’
The judges were Peter Rose, Lisa Gorton and Paul Hetherington. The shortlisted poems were: '(for the siblings)' by Kevin Gillam, 'T/here' by Judith Bishop, 'a full stop reaches the end of its sentence' by Nathan Shepherdson, 'Danger: Lantana' by Ross Clark (winner), and 'The Window' by Brenda Walker. They appeared in the March 2008 issue.
2007
Alex Skovron: 'Sanctum'
Alex Skovron was the winner of the third ABR Poetry Prize for his poem ‘Sanctum’. His poem ‘Boy’ was shortlisted for the second ABR Poetry Prize.
The judges were Peter Rose, Morag Fraser and Paul Hetherington. On receiving the judges’ congratulations for his dark, evocative poem, Alex Skovron commented: ‘I’m delighted and honoured to be this year’s recipient of the prize. I wrote the first version of ‘‘Sanctum’’ in July 2004. It’s an oblique, shadowy piece, an offbeat portrait framed within a telling that’s imbued with at least some of the delirium of its protagonist. The other protagonist is, of course, language.’
The shortlisted poems were: 'Sanctum' by Alex Skovron (winner), 'Full-Bucket Moon' by Ross Clark, 'The Fledglings' by Robert Adamson, 'The Fencer and His Mate' by Kathryn Lomer, 'The Red Sea' by Stephen Edgar, and 'Guidance and Knowledge' by Anthony Lawrence. They appeared in the March 2007 issue.
2006
Judith Bishop: 'Still Life with Cockles and Shells'
Judith Bishop was the winner of the the 2007 ABR Poetry Prize. The judges - Peter Rose, Morag Fraser, and Craig Sherborne - described her winning poem ‘Still Life with Cockles and Shells’ as ‘unfailingly poised and suggestive’.
The shortlisted poems were: 'Mallee' by Lisa Gorton, 'Braid' by J.S. Harry, 'Boy' by Alex Skovron, 'Still Life with Cockles and Shells' by Judith Bishop (winner), 'Back Roads, Local Roads' by Brendan Ryan, and 'Spiders' by Keith Harrison. They appeared in the March 2006 issue.
2005
Stephen Edgar: 'Man on the Moon'
Stephen Edgar won the inaugural ABR Poetry Prize with his poem ‘Man on the Moon’.
The three judges, Morag Fraser, Peter Rose, and Peter Steele, were impressed by the overall quality of the entries and were pleased to be able to choose from such a strong shortlist, but the final decision was quick and unanimous because of the formal and imaginative qualities of Stephen Edgar’s poem.
The shortlisted poems were: 'Ventriloquist's Dummy' by Jennifer Harrison, 'Man on the Moon' by Stephen Edgar (winner), 'Ubirr Rock' by Mark Tredinnick, 'Storm' by Maria Takolander, 'Headgear (a review)' by Sandra Hill, and 'Low at the Edge of the Sands' by Kevin Gillam. They appeared in the March 2005 issue.
2015 Peter Porter Poetry Prize
Australian Book Review is delighted to announce that Judith Beveridge has won the 2015 Peter Porter Poetry Prize for her poem ‘As Wasps Fly Upwards’. Morag Fraser named Judith as the overall winner at a ceremony at Collected Works Bookshop in Melbourne. Judith receives $5,000 for her poem, which was selected from a field of around 600 poems.
The other shortlisted poets were Eileen Chong, Toby Fitch, John Kinsella, Kate Middleton, and Alex Skovron, who won the Prize in 2007. Each of them receives $500.
Judith Beveridge’s latest poetry publications are Devadatta’s Poems and Hook and Eye, which has just been published by George Braziller for the US market. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Sydney.
The judges were Lisa Gorton, Paul Kane, and Peter Rose.
‘I am deeply honoured to have won the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, not only because of the high regard I have for Peter Porter’s poetry and for Australian Book Review, but also because of the very strong 2015 shortlist. I loved all the poems and was truly surprised to hear I’d won. My sincere thanks to ABR for continuing this prestigious prize, which is a great support for poets.’ Judith Beveridge
Subscribers can read all six shortlisted poems here
The Porter Prize is one of Australia’s most lucrative and respected awards for poetry. It honours the life and work of the great Australian poet Peter Porter (1929–2010), an honoured contributor to ABR for many years.
Please read our Frequently Asked Questions page before contacting us with queries about the Porter Prize.
Click here for more information about past winners.
We gratefully acknowledge the long-standing support of Ms Morag Fraser AM.
2014 Peter Porter Poetry Prize Winner
Australian Book Review is delighted to announce that Jessica L. Wilkinson has won the 2014 ABR Peter Porter Poetry Prize for her poem ‘Arrival Platform Humlet’. Jessica receives $4,000 for her winning poem, which was drawn from a field of just under 700 entries. The judges were Lisa Gorton and Felicity Plunkett.
‘I am truly honoured that my poem ‘‘Arrival Platform Humlet’’ was recognised in this way and very privileged to be associated with the good name of Peter Porter.’
Jessica L. Wilkinson
Website news
We last redesigned our website in March 2013, and the increase in usage and appreciation was immediate. But all websites need to evolve, and ours is no different. We realise that the current website isn’t meeting all our high standards for ABR Online (e.g. certain pages take too long to load). We have listened to feedback from subscribers, survey respondents, and those who have emailed us or contacted us over social media. We are most grateful for your feedback.
Our trusty web developer is hard at work on a new, speedier version of ABR Online. The revamped website will feature a newsier home page and contents pages that are quicker to load and that will make it easier for you to locate the features that interest you. We will also make sure that logging in to ABR Online is more intuitive for individual subscribers. Arts Update will be much more prominent and well ordered.
The new ABR website will be launched in June – the next step in our digital expansion.
Best wishes
ABR
2014 winner
2014 winner
The Calibre Prize, created in 2007, has quickly established itself as Australia’s major prize for an original essay, generating brilliant new essays and fresh insights into culture, society, and the human condition. Click here for more information about past Calibre Prize winners.
Australian Book Review has much pleasure in announcing the winner of the 2014 Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay. Christine Piper receives $5000 for her essay ‘Unearthing the Past’. The judges – Morag Fraser and ABR Editor Peter Rose – chose Piper’s essay from a large field. We congratulate all of them, especially the winner and shortlisted essayists.
Peter Rose said, ‘Christine Piper’s inspired essay complements Calibre’s long record of highlighting essays of real quality and moment. Readers will not easily forget this bracing and important essay.’
Christine Piper writes about biological weapons and experiments on living human beings in pre-war and wartime Japan. The remains of just some of the victims (the overall death toll is estimated at 250,000 to 300,000) were discovered in Tokyo twenty-five years ago. They have never been identified. The story takes Dr Piper to Japan, where she interviews key lawyers and activists who are seeking answers. We also meet the unspeakable Shiro Ishii, dubbed the Josef Mengele of Japan. Ishii, who masterminded Japan’s biological warfare program, escaped prosecution through an immunity deal with the United States. He died at home in 1959.
CHRISTINE PIPER is a freelance writer and editor. Born in South Korea to a Japanese mother and Australian father, she moved to Australia when she was one. She has previously taught English and studied Japanese in Japan, and currently lives in New York with her husband. See: www.christinepiper.com
On learning that she had won the Calibre Prize, Christine Piper commented: ‘I am honoured to be chosen as the winner, and delighted that my essay will have a wide audience thanks to Australian Book Review and Colin Golvan. I’d like to dedicate the award to the activists who have spent years campaigning and raising awareness about this dark chapter of Japan’s past.’
Christine Piper's winning essay is published in the April 2014 issue of ABR.
Click here to download the media release.
Click here to read Christine Piper's essay: 'Unearthing the Past'.
Purchase the April 2014 print edition.
Subscribe to ABR Online to gain access to this issue online, plus the ABR archive (containing all Calibre Prize essays published from 2011).
Shortlisted essays
- Ruth Balint: ‘The Paradox of Weimar: Hitlerism and Goethe’
- Martin Edmond: ‘Five Towns’
- Rebecca Giggs: ‘Open Ground: Trespassing on the Pilbara’s Mining Boom’
- Ann-Marie Priest: ‘“Something very difficult and unusual”: The Love Song of Henry and Olga’
- Stephen Wright: ‘Blows upon a Bruise’
ABR gratefully acknowledges the support of Mr Colin Golvan SC.
Index for 2013: Nos 348–357
Reviews Index 2013
ADAMS, Michael, The Last Girl, Allen & Unwin, 357/70, Margot McGovern
AITKEN, Adam, Kim Cheng Boey and Michelle Cahill (eds), Contemporary Asian Australian Poets, Puncher & Wattmann, 357/55, John Kinsella
ALIZADEH, Ali, Transactions, University of Queensland Press, 353/70, Jay Daniel Thompson
ALTMAN, Dennis, The End of the Homosexual?, University of Queensland Press, 354/38, Robert Reynolds
ALTMAN, Jon and Seán Kerins (eds), People on Country: Vital Landscapes, Indigenous Futures, Federation Press, 348/48, Richard J. Martin
ANDERSON, Nola, Australian War Memorial: Treasures from a Century of Collecting, Australian War Memorial, 350/47, Geoffrey Blainey
ANDREWS, Chris, Lime Green Chair, The Waywiser Press, 349/69, Gig Ryan
ARMITAGE, Simon, Walking Home, Faber and Faber, 348/56, Bronwyn Lea
ASHTON, Jennifer (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Since 1945, Cambridge University Press, 353/65, Alexander Howard
ATWOOD, Margaret, MADDADDAM, Bloomsbury, 355/16, Kerryn Goldsworthy
AUSTER, Paul and J.M. Coetzee, Here and Now: Letters, 2008-2011, Harvill Secker, 352/15, Miriam Cosic
AVERILL, Roger, Exile: The Lives and Hopes of Werner Pelz, Transit Lounge, 350/51, Peter Kenneally
BADIOU, Adam (Translated by Susan Spitzer), Cinema, Polity, 357/38, Hamish Ford
BANCROFT, Bronwyn, Remembering Lionsville, Allen & Unwin, 350/66, Margaret Robson Kett
BARKAN, Leonard, Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures, Princeton University Press, 351/45, Chris Wallace-Crabbe
BARS, Jennifer, Sophie Pavlovski-Ross and David T. Runia, Queen’s College The University of Melbourne: A Pictorial History 1887–2012, Queen’s College, 357/67, Wilfrid Prest
BASE, Graeme, My First Animalia, Viking, 357/71, Margaret Robson Kett
BEARD, Mary, Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations, Profile Books , 352/44, Christopher Allen
BEASLEY, Richard, Me and Rory Macbeath, Hachette Australia, 354/55, John Bryson
BECKETT, Ian F.W., The Making of the First World War, Yale University Press, 350/48, Robin Prior
BENNETT, Bruce and Anne Pender, From a Distant Shore: Australian Writers in Britain 1820–2012, Monash University Publishing, 325/25, Ros Pesman
BENNETT, Maxwell, Virginia Woolf and Neuropsychiatry, Springer, 350/54, Nick Haslam
BETTS, A.J., Zac & Mia, Text Publishing, 356/71, Maya Linden
BIRD, Delys and Tony Hughes-d’Aeth (eds), Westerly Vol. 57, No. 2, Westerly Centre, 351/32, Anthony Lynch
BIRD, Delys and Tony Hughes-d’Aeth (eds), Westerly Vol. 58, No. 1, Westerly Centre, 355/65, Carmel Macdonald Grahame
BIRNS, Nicholas, Antipodes: A Global Journal Of Australian/New Zealand Literature, Vol. 26, No.2. American Association of Australasian Literary Studies, 352/22, Cassandra Atherton
BIRNS, Nicholas (ed.), Antipodes, Vol. 27, No.1, AAALS, 355/65, Susan Lever
BIRTLES, Terry, Charles Robert Scrivener: The Surveyor Who Sited Australia’s National Capital Twice, Arcadia, 356/57, Richard Broinowski
BLACKADDER, Jesse, Chasing the Light: A Novel of Antarctica, Fourth Estate, 350/60, Judith Armstrong
BLACKADDER, Jesse, Stay: The Last Dog in Antarctica, ABC Books, 355/66, Ruth Starke
BLAIN, Georgia, The Secret Lives of Men, Scribe, 350/23, Denise O’Dea
BOWE, Steph, All This Could End, Text Publishing, 354/66, Laura Elvery
BRAMSTON, Troy (ed), For the True Believers:Great Labor Speeches That Shaped History, The Federation Press, 357/64, Lyndon Megarrity
BRANFORD, Anna (illustrated by Sarah Davis), Violet Mackerel’s Possible Friend, Walker Books, 351/66, Joy Lawn
BROINOWSKI, Richard, Fallout from Fukushima, Scribe, 348/50, Gillian Terzis
BROOKE, Cori and Sue deGennaro, Max and George, 350/66, Margaret Robson Kett
BROOKES, David and Elizabeth McMahon, Southerly Vol. 72, No. 3, Brandl & Schlesinger, 354/65, Peter Keneally
BROWN, Honey, Dark Horse, Michael Joseph, 355/48, Jay Daniel Thompson
BROWN, Pam, Home by Dark, Shearsman Books, 353/67, Gig Ryan
BRUGMAN, Alyssa, Alex as Well, Text Publishing, 349/70, Maya Linden
BUTLER, Janet, Kitty’s War: The Remarkable Wartime Experiences of Kit McNaughton, University of Queensland Press, 356/33, Jo Scanlan
BYNUM, William, A Little History of Science, Yale University Press, 349/22, Robyn Williams
CALDICOTT, Helen, Loving This Planet: Leading Thinkers Talk About How To Make A Better World, New Press, 352/21, Gillian Terzis
CALWELL, Mary Elizabeth, I Am Bound to Be True: The Life and Legacy of Arthur A. Calwell, 1896–1973, Mosaic Press, 350/57, Lyndon Megarrity
CAMPBELL, Marion May, Konkretion, UWAP, 350/21, Patrick Allington
CAMPBELL, Mel, Out of Shape: Debunking Myths about Fashion and Fit, Affirm Press, 354/65, Dion Kagan
CAMUS, Albert (edited by Alice Kaplan and translated by Arthur Goldhammer), Algerian Chronicles, Harvard University Press, 351/57, Colin Nettelbeck
CANNADINE, David, The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences, Penguin, 355/53, Stuart Macintyre
CAPP, Fiona, Gotland, Fourth Estate, 356/69, Phil Brown
CAREY, Gabrielle, Moving Among Strangers: Randolph Stow and My Family, University of Queensland Press, 357/15, Susan Sheridan
CARROLL, Steven, A World of Other People, Fourth Estate, 350/20, Don Anderson
CARTER, Alan, Getting Warmer, Freemantle Press, 357/63, Simon Collinson
CASE, Jo, Boomer & Me: A Memoir of Motherhood, and Asperger’s, Hardie Grant Books, 351/43, Rachel Robertson
CASEY, Melanie, Hindsight, Pantera Press, 354/56, Estelle Tang
CASTRO, Brian, Street to Street, Giramondo, 348/23, Francesca Sasnaitis
CHENOWETH, Neil, Murdoch’s Pirates: Before the Phone Hacking, There Was Rupert’s Pay-TV Skullduggery, Allen & Unwin, 348/16, Joel Deane
CHISHOLM, A.H. Mateship with Birds, Scribe, 352/66, Andrew Fuhrmann
CLARK, Katerina, Moscow, The Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931–1941, Harvard University Press, 349/62, Nick Hordern
CLARK, T.J., Picasso and Truth, Princeton University Press, 354/31, Patrick McCaughey
COETZEE, J.M., The Childhood of Jesus, Text Publishing, 349/10, Morag Fraser
COETZEE, J.M. et al., The 2013 Voiceless Anthology, Allen & Unwin, 349/68, Alex O’Brien
COLE, Jessie, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Fourth Estate, 348/64, Romy Ash
CONDON, Matthew, The Toe Tag Quintet: Five Novellas of Murder and Mayhem, Vintage, 348/64, Simon Collinson
CONDON, Matthew, Three Crooked Kings, UQP, 351/17, Dean Biron
COOPER, Artemis, Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, John Murray, 350/52, Kári Gíslason
CORRIS, Peter, The Dunbar Case, Allen & Unwin, 350/67, Laurie Steed
COSSINS, Annie, The Baby Farmers: A Chilling Tale of Missing Babies, Shameful Secrets and Murder in 19th Century Australia, Allen & Uniwin, 357/33, Jay Daniel Thompson
COX, David, The Fair Dinkum War, Allen & Unwin, 353/70, Stephanie Owen Reeder
CRIMP, Douglas, ‘Our Kind of Movie’: The Films of Andy Warhol, MIT Press, 350/44, Jake Wilson
CROGGON, Alison, Black Spring, Walker Books, 348/57, Bec Kavanagh
CUMMINGS, Phil and Owen Swan, ANZAC Biscuits, Scholastic, 353/70, Stephanie Owen Reeder
CUNNINGHAM, Stuart, Hidden Innovation: Policy, Industry and the Creative Sector, University of Queensland Press, 353/48, Andrew Leigh
CURTAIN, Amanda, Elemental, UWA Publishing, 354/54, Wendy Were
DE BONT, Genna, Privacy, Fourth Estate, 356/70, Rory Kennett-Lister
DALEY, Paul, Canberra, NewSouth, 350/10, Jen Webb
DALZIELL, Tanya, and Paul Genoni (eds.) Telling Stories: Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012, Monash University Publishing, 356/64, Susan Lever
DANCHEV, Alex, Cézanne: A Life, Profile Books, 349/16, Patrick McCaughey
DANDO-COLLINS, Stephen, Caesar the War Dog: Operation Blue Dragon, Random House, 355/66, Ruth Starke
DARWIN, John, Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain, Allen Lane, 357/31, Robert Dare
DATTNER, Zoe and Louise Swinn (eds), The Sleepers Almanac No. 8, Sleepers, 350/53, Amy Baillieu
DAVIDSON, Toby, Beast Language, 5 Islands Press, 352/54, Peter Kenneally
DAVIES, Luke, Four Plots for Magnets, Pitt Street Poetry, 354/63, Anthony Lynch
DAVIES, Will, The Boy Colonel: Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Marks, the Youngest Battalion Commander in the AIF, Vintage, 355/65, Jo Scanlan
DAVIS, Richard, Wotan’s Daughter: The Life of Marjorie Lawrence, Wakefield Press, 352/50, Ian Dickson
DEVESON, Anne, Waging Peace: Reflections On Peace And War From An Unconventional Woman, Allen & Unwin, 352/21, Gillian Terzis
DEWAARD, Andrew and R. Colin Tait, The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh: Indie Sex, Corporate Lies, and Digital Videotape, Wallflower Press, 355/64, Jake Wilson
DICINOSKI, Michelle, Ghost Wife: A Memoir of Love and Defiance, Black Inc., 349/60, Jay Daniel Thompson
DICKENSON, Jackie, Trust Me: Australians and Their Politicians, UNSW Press, 355/22, Russell Marks
DIONYSIUS, B.R., Bowra, Whitmore Press, 356/53, Peter Kenneally
DISHER, Garry, Bitter Wash Road, Text Publishing, 357/60, Ray Cassin
DOMOSŁAWSKI, Artur, (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones), Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life, Verso, 348/17, Sheila Fitzpatrick
DORSEN, David M., Henry Friendly: Greatest Judge of His Era, Harvard University Press, 357/66, Michael Crennan
DOWNES, Stephen, A Lasting Record, HarperCollins, 353/61, Alistaire Bowler
DREWE, Robert, The Local Wildlife, Hamish Hamilton, 355/59, Dennis Haskell
DREYFUS, Kay, Silences and Secrets: The Australian Experience of the Weintraubs Syncopators, Monash University Publishing, 354/57, Colin Nettelbeck
DUGGAN, Laurie, The Collected Blue Hills, Puncher & Wattmann, 352/53, David McCooey
DUNLOP, Tim, The New Front Page: New Media and the Rise of the Audience, Scribe, 355/19, Gillian Terzis
EDMONDSON, Paul and Stanley Wells, Shakespeare Beyond Doubt: Evidence, Argument, Controversy, Cambridge University Press, 357/49, Ian Donaldson
EDWARDS, Rachel and Matthew Lamb (eds), Island 132, Island Magazine, 353/65, Cassandra Atherton
EGGERT, Paul, Biography of a Book: Henry Lawson’s ‘While the Billy Boils’, Sydney University Press/Pennsylvania State University Press, 354/24, Paul Brunton
ELIOT, Valerie and John Haffenden (eds), The Letters of T.S. Eliot: Volume 3: 1926–1927, Faber and Faber, 348/37, James McNamara
ELLIOT, J.H., History in the Making, Yale University Press, 348/62, Norman Etherington
ELLIOTT, Ron, Now Showing, Fremantle Press, 352/64, Samuel Williams
ELLIS, Bob, The Year It All Fell Down, Viking, 353/48, Jay Daniel Thompson
EMERY, Brook, Collusion, John Leonard Press, 350/40, Geoff Page
ERDRICH, Louise, The Round House, Constable, 349/10, Morag Fraser
FALLADA, Hans, Charlotte and A.L. Lloyd (trans.), The Drinker, Scribe, 352/43, William Heyward
FAULKNER, Annah, The Beloved, Picador, 352/40, Gillian Dooley
FEIGEL, Lara, The Love-charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War, Bloomsbury (Allen & Unwin), 352/59, Jane Sullivan
FIENBERG, Anna (illustrated by Stephen Michael King), Figaro and Rumba and the Crocodile Cafe, Allen & Unwin, 351/66, Joy Lawn
FINNANE, Mark and Ian Donaldson, Taking Stock: The Humanities in Australia, UWA Publishing, 352/57, Robert Phiddian
FISHER, Jeremy, How to Tell Your Father to Drop Dead, Fat Frog Books, 357/68, Jay Daniel Thompson
FITZPATRICK, Sheila, A Spy in the Archives, Melbourne University Press, 356/31, Miriam Cosic
FLANAGAN, Richard, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Vintage, 355/12, James Ley
FORSYTH, Kate, The Wild Girl, Vintage, 356/70, Kate Hayford
FOX, Mem and Emma Quay, Baby Bedtime, Viking, 357/70, Margaret Robson Kett
FOX, Mem (illustrated by Lauren Stringer), Tell Me About Your Day Today, Scholastic, 350/66, Margaret Robson Kett
FOYSTER, Greg, Changing Gears: A Pedal-powered Detour from the Rat Race, Affirm Press, 357/68, Alastair Collins
FRAME, Janet, In The Memorial Room, Text Publishing, 353/36, Jane Sullivan
FRASER, Antonia, Perilous Question: The Drama Of The Great Reform Bill 1832, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 353/52, Neal Blewett
FRENCH, Jackie, Dinosaurs Love Cheese, Angus & Robertson, 350/66, Margaret Robson Kett
FRENCH, Jackie, Refuge, Angus and Robertson, 355/66, Ruth Starke
FULLILOVE, Michael, Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America into the War and into the World, Viking, 355/20, Dennis Altman
GELDER, Ken, New Vampire Cinema, British Film Institute/Palgrave Macmillan, 351/41, Michael Fleming
GELLATLY, Kelly (ed.), 101 Contemporary Australian Artists, National Gallery of Victoria, 348/41, Doug Hall
GEMMELL, Nikki, Honestly: Notes on Life, Fourth Estate, 348/48, Gillian Dooley
GIBSON, Ross, 26 Views of the Starburst World: William Dawes at Sydney Cove 1788 –91, UWAP, 348/27, Andy Lloyd James
GLEESON, Andrew, A Frightening Love: Recasting the Problem of Evil, Palgrave Macmillan, 354/60, Graham Oppy
GLENDINNING, Victoria, Raffles and the Golden Opportunity 1781–1826, Profile Books, 350/46, Paul Madden
GOLD, Irma (ed.), The Invisible Thread: One Hundred Years of Words, Halstead Press, 350/10, Jen Webb
GOLDING, Peter, An Unqualified Success: The Extraordinary Life of Allan Percy Fleming, Rosenberg Publishing, 357/65, Graeme Powell
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, The Memory Trap, Fourth Estate, 351/36, Jan McGuinness
GOLDSWORTHY, Anna, Welcome to Your New Life, Black Inc., 350/50, Rachel Robertson
GOLDSWORTHY, Peter, His Stupid Boyhood: A Memoir, Hamish Hamilton, 357/16, Kári Giślason
GORE, Al, The Future, W.H. Allen, 350/13, Gillian Terzis
GORTON, Lisa, Hotel Hyperion, Giramondo, 351/55, Cassandra Atherton
GOTT, Robert, The Holiday Murders, Scribe, 349/63, Scott Macleod
GREENE, Roland, et al (ed.), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition, Princeton University Press, 355/26, David McCooey
GREENWOOD, Kerry, Evan’s Gallipoli, Allen & Unwin, 355/66, Ruth Starke
GUILLE, Derek and Anne-Sophie Biguet, The Promise: The Town That Never Forgets, One Day Hill, 353/70, Stephanie Owen Reeder
HAMILTON, Clive, Earthmasters: Playing God with the Climate, Allen & Unwin, 349/19, Amanda McLeod
HANSEN, Christine and Tom Griffiths, Living with Fire: People, Nature and
History in Steels Creek, CSIRO Publishing, 356/23, Robert Kenny
HARDIE, Melissa Jane (ed.), Southerly, Vol. 72, No. 2, Brandl & Schlesinger, 351/57, Andrew Fuhrmann
HARRIS, Robin, Not For Turning: The Life of Margaret Thatcher, Random House, 356/28, James Walter
HARWOOD, John, The Asylum, Vintage Australia, 353/37, Benjamin Chandler
HARTNETT, Sonya (ed.), The Best Australian Stories 2012, Black Inc., 348/22, Cassandra Atherton
HARVEY, Jacqueline, Clementine Rose and the Pet Day Disaster, Random House, 351/66, Joy Lawn
HAWKE, Rosanne, Shahana: Through My Eyes, Allen & Unwin, 355/66, Ruth Starke
HAWKING, Stephen, My Brief History, Bantam Press, 357/21, Robyn Williams
HAWKINS, Belinda, Every Parent’s Nightmare: Jock Palfreeman and the True Story of his Father’s Fight to Save him from a Lifetime in a Bulgarian Jail , Allen & Unwin, 352/63, Daniel Herborn
HAWLEY, Janet, Artists in Conversation, Slattery Media Group, 349/58, Sheridan Palmer
HAY, Ashley, The Railwayman’s Wife, Allen & Unwin, 351/33, Patrick Allington
HAYES, Nicole, The Whole of my World, Woolshed Press, 354/67, Maya Linden
HEARN, Liam, The Storyteller and His Three Daughters, Hachette Australia, 356/65, Alison Broinowski
HEHIR, Tim, Julius and the Watchmaker, Text Publishing, 352/67, Benjamin Chandler
HETHERINGTON, Michelle (ed.), Glorious Days: Australia 1913, National Museum of Australia, 353/51, John Thompson
HETHERINGTON, Paul, Six Different Windows, UWA Publishing, 354/64, Bronwyn Lea
HEYMAN, Kathryn, Floodline, Allen & Unwin, 356/70, Carol Middleton
HILLIARD, Christopher, English as a Vocation: the Scrutiny Movement, Oxford University Press, 357/51, Alexander Howard
HOLFELD, Greg and Ruth Starke, An Anzac Tale, Working Title Press, 353/70, Stephanie Owen Reeder
HOLUIGUE, Diane, A Lifetime of Cooking, Teaching and Writing from the French Kitchen, Slattery Media Group, 349/59, Christopher Menz
HUNT, Julie, Song for a Scarlet Runner, Allen & Unwin, 354/66, Grace Nye
INGRAM, Tania and Kat Chadwick, Dog on Log, Scholastic, 350/66, Margaret Robson Kett
JINKS, Catherine, A Very Unusual Pursuit: City of Orphans, Book One, Allen & Unwin, 352/67, Benjamin Chandler
JOHNSON, Judy, Stone Scar Air Water, Walleah Press, 355/60, Rose Lucas
JONES, Lloyd, A History of Silence, Text, 355/24, Kári Gíslason
JONES, Rae Desmond, It Comes From All Directions, Grand Parade Poets, 357/59, Martin Duwell
JONSBERG, Barry, My Life as an Alphabet, Allen & Unwin, 351/66, Joy Lawn
JØRGENSEN, Lesley, Cat & Fiddle, Scribe, 350/61, Ruth Starke
JOSEPH, Sue, Speaking Secrets: Sex and Sexuality as Public Property, Alto Books, 349/65, Jay Daniel Thompson
JUDAH, Ben, Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin, Yale University Press, 355/54, Nick Hordern
KANE, Kim and Marion Roberts, Cry Blue Murder, UQP, 355/67, Bec Kavanagh
KANE, Kim and Sara Acton, Esther’s Rainbow, Allen & Unwin, 357/70, Margaret Robson Kett
KANNEMEYER, J.C.,(trans. Michiel Heyns), J.M. Coetzee: A Life in Writing, Scribe, 348/19, Gillian Dooley
KAPLAN, Wendy, Living in a Modern Way: California Design 1930-1965, MIT Press, 357/43, Christopher Menz
KENNEDY, Dane, The Last Blank Spaces: Exploring Africa and Australia, Harvard University Press , 352/64, Norman Etherington
KENNY, Robert, Gardens of Fire: An Investigative Memoir, UWA Publishing, 357/13, Ian Gibbins
KENT, Hannah, Burial Rites, Picador, 351/62, Bronwyn Lea
KERR, Eleanor and Judith Rossell, To Get to Me, Random House, 357/70, Margaret Robson Kett
KEVIN, Tony, Reluctant Rescuers: An Exploration of the Australian Border Protection System’s Safety Record in Detecting and Intercepting Asylum-Seeker Boats, 1998–2011, Tony Kevin, 351/59, Jay Daniel Thompson
KILDEA, Paul, Benjamin Britten: A Life In The Twentieth Century, Allen Lane, 352/48, 352/48, Jeffrey Tate
KING, Barbara, How Animals Grieve, University of Chicago Press, 354/61, Rebecca Giggs
KINROSS-SMITH, Greame, Available Light, Whitmore Press, 348/60, Mike Ladd
KINSELLA, John, Tide, Transit Lounge, 357/11, Maria Takolander
KNEEN, Krissy, Steeplechase, Text, 351/60, Wendy Were
KOBAYASHI, Ai, W. McMahon Ball: Politics for the People, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 354/58, Lyndon Megarrity
KOEPPE, Wolfram, Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens, Yale University Press, 353/42, Christopher Menz
LANDER, Nicholas, The Art of the Restaurateur, Phaidon, 350/38, Gay Bilson
LANGTON, Marcia, The Quiet Revolution: Indigenous People and the Resources Boom (2012 Boyer Lectures) 353/46, Tim Rowse
LATHAM, Mark, Not Dead Yet: Labor’s Post-Left Future (Quarterly Essay 49), Black Inc., 351/15, Dennis Altman
LAVELL, Iris, Elsewhere in Success, Fremantle Press, 349/64, Estelle Tang
LAWSON, Henry, While the Billy Boils: The Original Newspaper Versions, Sydney University Press, 354/24, Paul Brunton
LEA, Bronwyn (ed.), Australian Poetry Journal, Volume 2, Issue 2, Australian Poetry Ltd, 350/64, Cassandra Atherton
LEIGH, Andrew, Battlers and Billionaires: The Story of Inequality in Australia, Redback, 354/14, Gillian Terzis
LESTER, Alison, Kissed by the Moon, Viking, 357/71, Margaret Robson Kett
LEWIS, Darrell, Where is Dr Leichhardt? The Greatest Mystery in Australian History, Monash University Publishing, 354/19, Martin Thomas
LEE, Michelle, Banana Girl: A Memoir, Transit Lounge, 357/68, Sara Savage
LIMPRECHT, Eleanor, What was Left, Sleepers Publishing, 355/48, Milly Main
LOEWENSTEIN, Antony, Profits of Doom, Melbourne University Press, 356/25, Virginia Lloyd
LUCAS, Rose, Even in the Dark, UWA Publishing, 357/43, Cassandra Atherton
LUCASHENKO, Melissa, Mullumbimby, UQP, 351/34, Tony Birch
LYONS, Martyn, The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe, c. 1860-1920, Cambridge University Press, 357/34, Paul Pickering
MACCALLUM, Mungo, The Mad Marathon: the Story of the 2013 Election, Black Inc., 357/18, Shane Carmody
MACCARTER, Kent and Ali Lemer (eds.), Joyful Strains: Making Australia Home, Affirm Press, 349/64, Harry Brumpton
MACGREGOR, Neil, Shakespeare’s Restless World, Allen Lane, 354/29, Ian Donaldson
MCARTHUR, Ian, Henry Black: On Stage in Meiji Japan, Monash University Publishing, 356/65, Alison Broinowski
MCDONALD, Roger, The Following, Vintage, 355/17, Don Anderson
MACFARLANE, Fiona, The Night Guest, Hamish Hamilton, 357/62, Gillian Dooley
MCGAHAN, Andrew, Ship Kings: The Voyage of the Unquiet Ice, Allen & Unwin, 349/71, Clare Kennedy
MCHAM, Sarah Blake, Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance: the Legacy of the ‘Natural History’, Yale University Press, 357/52, Christopher Allen
MCKAY, Laura Jean, Holiday in Cambodia, Black Inc., 355/48, Alice Bishop
MCKENNA, Neil, Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England, Allen & Unwin, 353/55, Paul Morgan
MCKINLAY, Meg, Definitely No Ducks!, Walker Books, 351/66, Joy Lawn
MCKNIGHT, David, Murdoch’s Politics: How One Man’s Thirst for Wealth and Power Shapes in Our World, Pluto Press, 356/21, Jan McGuinness
MCLAREN, Melbourne: City of Worlds, Arcadia Publishing, 355/63, Simon Caterson
MACRIS, Anthony, Great Western Highway: A Love Story (Capital, Volume One, Part Two), UWAP, 348/25, Patrick Allington
MAIDEN, Jennifer, Liquid Nitrogen, Giramondo, 348/59, Kate Middleton
MADAR, Chase, The Passion of Bradley Manning: The True Story Behind the Wikileaks Whistleblower, Verso, 351/65, Jay Daniel Thompson
MAJOR, John, My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall, HarperCollins, 356/51, John Rickard
MARR, David, The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell (Quarterly Essay 51), Black Inc., 356/18, Ray Cassin
MATHIEU, Marianne et al., Monet’s Garden: The Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris, National Gallery of Victoria, 353/44, Mark Dober
MAX, D.T., Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, Granta, 348/53, Shannon Burns
MAXWELL, Glyn, On Poetry, Oberon Books, 348/55, David McCooey
MEEHAN, Maurilia, Madame Bovary’s Haberdashery, Transit Lounge, 350/66, Carol Middleton
MIDDLETON, Kate, Ephemeral Waters, Giramondo, 357/57, Peter Kenneally
MILDER, Robert, Hawthorne’s Habitations: A Literary Life, Oxford University Press, 352/51, Shannon Burns
MILLER, Alex, Coal Creek, Allen & Unwin, 355/13, Brian Matthews
MITCHELL, Neil, World Film Locations: Melbourne, Intellect Books, 357/39, Benjamin Millar
MONK, Ray, Inside the Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Jonathan Cape, 352/18, Harry Oldmeadow
MOORE, Charles, Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography (Volume One: Not for Turning), Allen Lane, 356/28, James Walter
MOORE, Steven (eds.), The Letters of William Gaddis, Dalkey Archive Press, 356/61, Patrick Allington
MOORE, Tony, Dancing with Empty Pockets: Australia’s Bohemians Since 1860, Pier 9, 356/58, Frank Bongiorno
MORIARTY, Catherine, Making Melbourne’s Monuments: The Sculpture of Paul Montford, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 353/39, Christopher Menz
MUNRO, Alice, Dear Life, Chatto & Windus, 351/31, Melinda Harvey
NADLER, Steven, The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Portrait Painter: A Portrait of Descartes, Princeton University Press, 355/56, Stephen Buckle
NEAR, Allyse, Fairytales for Wilde Girls, Random House, 353/71, Grace Nye
NEAVE, Lucy, Who We Were, Text Publishing, 352/42, Judith Armstrong
NELSON, Brian (ed.), Australian Journal of French Studies, Vol. L, No. 1, Liverpool University Press, 356/27, Colin Nettlebeck
O’BRIEN, Geoffrey, Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows: Writing on Film 2002-2012, Counterpoint Press, 357/40, Jake Wilson
O’GORMAN, Emily, Flood Country: An Environmental History of the Murray-Darling Basin, CSIRO Publishing, 350/62, Paul Humphries
OATES, Joyce Carol, The Accursed, Fourth Estate, 353/35, Morag Fraser
OGILVIE, Sarah, Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary, Cambridge University Press, 356/62, Bernadette Hince
OLSEN, Penny, Collecting Ladies: Ferdinand Von Mueller and Women Botanical Artists, National Library of Australia, 353/50, Simon Caterson
OLSSON, Kristina, Boy Lost, University of Queensland Press, 353/57, Gillian Dooley
OLUBAS, Brigitta, Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist, Cambria Press, 352/24, Paul Morgan
PAGE, Geoff, 1953, UQP, 349/70, Mike Ladd
PAGE, Vanessa, Confessional Box, Walleah Press, 351/64, Peter Kenneally
PARNELL, Sean, Clive: The Story of Clive Palmer, HarperCollins, 356/16, Gillian Terzis
PARRY, Linda, William Morris Textiles, V&A Publishing, 355/50, Christopher Menz
PASCOE, Bruce, Fog a Dox, Magabala Books, 351/66, Joy Lawn
PEETERS, Benoît (trans. Andrew Brown), Derrida: A Biography, Polity (Blackwell), 356/59, Shannon Burns
POLLAN, Michael, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation, Allen Lane, 355/61, Gay Bilson
POWER, Robert, The Swan Song of Doctor Malloy, Transit Lounge, 354/56, Crusader Hillis
PRETO, Alexander, The Mimosa Tree, Fremantle Press, 354/66, Laura Elvery
RADIC, Thérèse, and Suzanne Robinson (eds.), Marshall-Hall’s Melbourne: Music, Art and Controversy, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 356/52, Benjamin Millar
RAPHAEL, Frederic and Josesph Epstein, Distant Intimacy: A Friendship in the Age of the Internet, Yale University Press, Miriam Cosic
RICHELL, Hannah, The Shadow Year, Hachette Australia, 357/63, Milly Main
RIETH, Homer, 150 Motets, Black Pepper, 350/65, Geoff Page
ROBERTS, Claire, Photography and China, Reaktion Books, 350/41, Sophie McIntyre
ROBOTHAM, Michael, Watching You, Sphere, 357/63, Ray Cassin
ROSEN, Charles, Freedom and the Arts: Essays on Music and Literature, Harvard University Press, 348/39, Michael Morley
ROTHWELL, Nicolas, Belomor, Text Publishing, 349/13, Phil Brown
ROUX, Michel, Michel Roux: The Collection, Lantern, 349/59, Christopher Menz
ROY, James, City, UQP, 348/54, Laura Elvery
RUSSELL, Vanessa, Holy Bible, Sleepers Publishing, 354/56, Francesca Sasnaitis
RYAN, Denis and Peter Hoysted, Unholy Trinity: The Hunt for the Paedophile Priest Monsignor John Day, Allen & Unwin, 354/16, Ray Cassin
SAGE, Helen, A Flower Between the Cracks: A Memoir of Love, Hope and Disability, Affirm Press, 352/61, Jay Daniel Thompson
SAID, Aimee, Freia Lockhart’s Summer of Awful, Walker Books, 354/66, Laura Elvery
SANT, Andrew, The Bicycle Thief & Other Poems, Black Pepper, 352/56, Martin Duwell
SAYWELL, Cherise, Twitcher, Vintage, 349/66, Thuy On
SCHULTZ, Julianne (ed.), Griffith Review 38: The Novella Project, Text Publishing, 348/62, Imogen Smith
SCHULTZ, Julianne (ed.), Griffith Review 41, Text Publishing, 354/65, Andrew Fuhrmann
SCOTT, Maggie (ed) (et al.), Just Between Us: Australian Writers Tell the Truth About Female Friendship, Pan Macmillan, 353/68, Milly Main
SCOURFIELD, Stephen, As the River Runs, UWAP, 350/62, Ben Eltham
SHANAHAN, Brendan, Mr Snack and the Lady Water: Travel Tales From My Lost Years, Melbourne University Press, 354/40, Alex O’Brien
SHANAHAN, Lisa (illustrated by Sara Acton), Daisy and the Puppy, Scholastic, 350/66, Margaret Robson Kett
SHARE, Don and Christian Wiman (eds), The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine, University of Chicago Press, 348/58, Stephen Edgar
SHARP, Christine, Bea, UQP, 350/66, Margaret Robson Kett
SHAWCROSS, William (ed.), Counting One’s Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Macmillan, 348/38, Michael Shmith
SHRIVER, Lionel, Big Brother, Fourth Estate, 352/39, Kerryn Goldsworthy
SIMSION, Graeme, The Rosie Project, Text Publishing, 348/26, Jo Case
SMART, John, Tarantula’s Web: John Hayward, T.S. Eliot and Their Circle, Michael Russell, 356/26, Steven Carroll
SMITH, Annabel, Whisky Charlie Foxtrot, Fremantle Press, 348/64, Stephen Mansfield
SMITHIES, Declan and Daniel Stoljar (eds), Introspection and Consciousness, Oxford University Press, 349/60, Frank Jackson
SOMERVILLE, Chris, We Are Not the Same Anymore: Stories, UQP, 351/66, Angela E. Andrewes
STAFFORD, Jane and Mark Williams, The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature, Auckland University Press, 352/10, Brian Matthews
STEELE, Bruce, Walter Lindesay Richardson MD: A Victorian Seeker, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 350/17, John Arnold
STEGGALL, Susan, A Most Generous Scholar: Joan Kerr: Art and Architectural Historian, 353/40, Sheridan Palmer
STONE, Oliver and Peter Kuznick, The Untold History of the United States, Ebury Press, 350/15, Alison Broinowski
STRICKLAND, Katrina, Affairs of the Art, Miegunyah Press, 351/37, Mary Eagle
STRONG, Roy, Self-portrait as a Young Man, Bodleian Library, 353/12, Patrick McCaughey
SUMMERS, Anne, The Misogyny Factor, NewSouth, 353/47, Gillian Dooley
TAKOLANDER, Maria, The Double (And Other Stories), Text Publishing, 354/53, Patrick Allington
TAN, Shaun, Rules of Summer, Lothian, 357/70, Margaret Robson Kett
TAYLOR, Cory, My Beautiful Enemy, Text Publishing, 352/41, Dennis Altman
TEMPLEMAN, Ian, The Watchmaker’s Imprint: Selected Poems, Tin Kettle Books, 357/58, Dennis Haskell
TEO, Hsu-Ming, Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels, University of Texas Press, 351/47, Alison Broinowski
THALIS, Philip, and Peter John Cantrill, Public Sydney: Drawing the City, Historic Houses Trust, 353/33, Philip Goad
THOMSON, David, The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us, Allen Lane, 349/56, Campbell Thomson
TINK, Andrew, Air Disaster Canberra: The Plane Crash that Destroyed a Government, NewSouth, 351/44, Lyndon Megarrity
TÓIBÍN, Colin, The Testament of Mary, Picador, 357/10, Robert Dessaix
TOY, Ann and Robert Griffin, Government House Sydney, Historic Houses Trust, 349/57, Christopher Menz
TREDINNICK, Mark (Ed.), Australian Love Poems 2013, Inkerman & Blunt, 355/28, Peter Kenneally
TRIGG, Stephanie, Shame and Honor: A Vulgar History of the Order of the Garter, University of Pennsylvania Press, 349/14, Ian Donaldson
TRINCA, Helen, Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John, Text Publishing,352/17, Sylvia Martin
TRUMBLE, Angus, and Andrea Wolk Rager, Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, Yale University Press, 353/38 Anne Gray
TSIOLKAS, Christos, Barracuda, Allen & Unwin, 356/14, Rosemary Sorensen
VAN LOON, Julienne, Harmless, Fremantle Press, 351/63, Milly Main
VENTRESCA, Robert A., Soldier of Christ: The Life of Pope Pius XII, Harvard University Press, 352/61, Ray Cassin
VOLK, Felicity, Lightning, Picador, 353/64, Alison Broinowski
WAKELING, Corey, Goad Omen, Giramondo, 353/66, Anthony Lynch
WALKER, Yvette, Letters to the End of Love, University of Queensland Press, 352/60, Carol Middleton
WALLACE-CRABBE, Chris, New and Selected Poems, Carcanet Press, 350/24, Geoffrey Lehmann
WARRELL, Ian (ed.), Turner From The Tate: The Making of A Master, Tate Publishing, 353/14, Mary Eagle
WALKER, David and Agnieszka Sobocinska, Australia’s Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century, UWA Publishing, 354/39, Nick Hordern
WALSH, Kerry-Anne, The Stalking of Julia Gillard: How the Media and Team Rudd Contrived to Bring Down the Prime Minister, Allen & Unwin, 354/12, Jacqueline Kent
WEARNE, Alan, Prepare the Cabin for Landing, Giramondo, 348/61, Peter Kenneally
WHISH-WILSON, David, Zero at the Bone, Viking, 356/68, Wendy Were
WICKS, Robert L., European Aesthetics: A Critical Introduction from Kant to Derrida, Oneworld Publications, 351/64, Janna Thompson
WILD, Margaret and Freya Blackwood, The Treasure Box, Viking, 350/66, Margaret Robson Kett
WILLAN, Anne, One Soufflé at a Time: A Memoir of Food and France, St Martin’s Press, 357/46, Gay Bilson
WILLIAMS, Pamela, Killing Fairfax: Packer, Murdoch and the Ultimate Revenge, HarperCollins, 356/21, Jan McGuinness
WILLIAMSON, Geordie, The Burning Library: Great Novelists Lost and Found, Text Publishing, 348/14, Bernadette Brennan
WILLS, Garry, Why Priests? A Failed Tradition, Viking, 355/57, Tony Coady
WILSON, Mark, Vietnam Diary, Lothian, 353/71, Stephanie Owen Reeder
WINTON, Tim, Eyrie, Hamish Hamilton, 356/13, Brian Matthews
WOOD, Fiona, Wildlife, Pan Macmillan, 357/71, Emma Hayes
WRIGHT, Alexis, The Swan Book, Giramondo, 354/22, Jen Webb
WYLD, Evie, All the Birds, Singing, Vintage, 353/62, Felicity Plunkett
WYNDHAM, Diana, Norman Haire and the Study of Sex, Sydney University Press, 348/51, John Rickard
WYNDHAM, Susan (ed.), My Mother, My Father, Allen & Unwin, 356/34, Dina Ross
YOUNG, Damon, Philosophy in the Garden, Melbourne University, 354/60, Jay Daniel Thompson
Features Index 2013
ABR ELIZABETH JOLLEY SHORT STORY PRIZE
CLARKSON, Rebekah, ‘The Five Truths of Manhood’ 355/30
MAHOOD, Kim, ‘The Accident’, 355/37
MICHAU-CRAWFORD, Michelle, ‘Leaving Elvis’, 355/42
BOOKS OF THE YEAR
ADAMSON, Robert, 357/22
ALTMAN, Dennis, 357/22
ATHERTON, Cassandra, 357/22
BIRCH, Tony, 357/22
CONDON, Matthew, 357/22
COSIC, Miriam, 357/23
FITZPATRICK, Sheila, 357/23
FRASER, Morag, 357/22
FUHRMANN, Andrew, 357/24
FULLILOVE, Michael, 357/24
GOLDSWORTHY, Kerryn, 357/24
KENT, Jacqueline, 357/24
KINSELLA, John, 357/25
LEA, Bronwyn, 357/25
MCCAUGHEY, Patrick, 357/25
MACINTYRE, Stuart, 357/26
MATTHEWS, Brian, 357/26
NIALL, Brenda, 357/26
ON, Thuy, 357/26
OWEN REEDER, Stephanie, 357/26
ROTHWELL, Nicolas, 357/27
SHMITH, Michael, 357/27
SHUTTLEWORTH, Mike, 357/27
STARKE, Ruth, 357/27
SULLIVAN, Jane, 357/27
THOMAS, Martin, 357/28
WEAVER, Jacki, 357/28
WEBB, Jen, 357/28
WILLIAMS, Kim, 357/29
WILLIAMS, Robyn, 357/29
CALIBRE PRIZE 2013
THOMAS, Martin, “Because It’s Your Country”: Bringing Back the Bones to West Arnhem Land’, 350/26
COMMENTARY
BROINOWSKI, Alison, ‘You Are What You Read: Asian Australian Fiction in the Asian Century’, 348/42
CATERSON, Simon, ‘John le Carré’s Spy at Fifty’, 352/28
CRAVEN, Peter, ‘Mordant Beauty: A Classic by Absolute Not Parochial Standards’, 354/26
CUNNANE, Mary, ‘#Queryfail and Other Publishing Practices’, 357/36
ENNIS, Helen, ‘Olive Cotton at Spring Forest’, 353/18
FITZPATRICK, Sheila, ‘In the Moscow Archives,’ 354/33
FRASER, Morag, ‘Signs and Portents: The Outlook for America in Obama’s Second Term’, 348/10
FUHRMANN, Andrew, ‘A Theatre of His Own’ 356/35
GOLDSWORTHY, Kerryn, ‘Everyone’s a Critic’, 351/20
GRIFFITHS, Tom, ‘At Dusk in the Gévaudan’, 354/41
KATZEN, Hayley, ‘The Lonely Death’, 351/49
MCEWIN, Emma, ‘Penguins on Horseback: Douglas Mawson’s Iron Gut’, 352/30
MEYRICK, Julian, ‘Assemblage of Convenience: National Cultural Policy-Making 101’, 351/12
NIALL, Brenda, ‘Ettie and Nettie: When Nettie Palmer Visited Henry Handel Richardson’, 348/28
STARKE, Ruth, ‘Media Don: A Political Enigma in Pink Shorts’, 349/30
DIARY
ROSE, Peter, ‘Editor’s Diary’, 349/24
FILM
FRASER, Morag, Lincoln, 348/47
KAGAN, Dion, Stranger by the Lake, 357/37
MCFARLANE, Brian, Great Expectations, 350/45
MCFARLANE, Brian, The Great Gatsby, 352/29
MCFARLANE, Brian, What Maisie Knew, 355/52
MCFARLANE, Brian, Mr Pip, 356/54
WILSON, Jake, The Turning, 354/28
WILSON, Jake, Fallout, 356/67
MEMOIR
HAMILTON, Debi, ‘Out of Bounds’, 357/47
OPEN PAGE
ALTMAN, Dennis, 354/68
CAMPBELL, Marion May, 350/68
CONDON, Matthew, 351/68
DISHER, Garry, 357/72
FITZPATRICK, Sheila, 355/68
GOLDSWORTHY, Kerryn, 353/72
KINSELLA, John, 352/68
ROTHWELL, Nicolas, 349/72
WINTON, Tim, 356/72
OPERA
ROSE, Peter, ‘A Masked Verdi’, 352/46
PETER PORTER POETRY PRIZE: THE SHORTLISTED POEMS
CURNOW, Nathan, ‘Prophecy’, 349/46
DISNEY, Dan, ‘Procedures in Aesthetics’, 349/50
JOHNSON, A. Frances, ‘Big Wig’, 349/47
KINSELLA, John, ‘Bushfire Approaching’, 349/54
SCOTT, John A., ‘Four Sonnets’, 349/49
POEMS
ATHERTON, Cassandra, ‘P.R.B.’, 351/46
BOHINCE, Paula, ‘Descending Geese at Katada’, 357/19
BOLTON, Ken, 30.11.12, 352/27
CAHILL, Michelle, ‘The Dying Art’, 354/36
COMPTON, Jennifer, ‘Sorrowful’, 349/67
DISNEY, Dan, ‘Exile’, 356/50
DOUGAN, Lucy, ‘Your Paintings’, 357/56
DUGGAN, Laurie, ‘An Ordinary Evening in Newtown’, 350/58
FARRELL, Michael, ‘Kangaroo Scientists of the Nineteenth Century’, 357/30
FIELD, Lynette, ‘The Tick’, 352/45
HOFMANN, Michael, ‘Recuerdos de Bundaberg’, 353/59
HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah, ‘Life Cycle of the Eel’, 348/52
JAMES, Clive, ‘Early to Bed’, 350/25
JOHNSON, A. Frances, ‘Soar’, 356/24
JOHNSON, Judy, ‘Swans’, 353/45
LAWRENCE, Anthony, ‘The Fishhouse Review’, 356/30
LEW, Emma, ‘Fragile Pranks’, 348/63
LEW, Emma, ‘Steady Fetters’ 355/25
LYNCH, Anthony, ‘Crying on Cue’, 357/54
MAIDEN, Jennifer, ‘Diary Poem: Uses of Cosiness’, 350/56
MAIDEN, Jennifer, ‘Diary Poem: Uses of Frank O’Hara’, 352/23
MILES, Graeme, ‘In a Symbolist Mood’, 354/30
MURRAY, Les, ‘A Denizen’, 349/21
PLUNKETT, Felicity, ‘’Yellow’, 357/35
RYAN, Tracy, ‘Carousel’, 353/16
SHAPCOTT, Thomas, ‘Laugh’, 355/62
TRANTER, John, ‘The Consonants’, 351/48
WALLACE-CRABBE, ‘Chris, Fairly Fine Tuned Schedule Wise’, 354/27
ZWICKY, Fay, ‘Charon’, 351/56
THEATRE
DICKSON, Ian, Waiting for Godot, 357/41
ELTHAM, Ben, Rupert, 355/49
FUHRMANN, Andrew, A Clockwork Orange, 351/40
FUHRMANN, Andrew, Hate, 350/43
FUHRMANN, Andrew, Savages, 354/52
WAITES, James, ‘The Maids’, 353/60
WAITES, James, Hamlet, 356/49
WAITES, James, The Floating World, 356/49
VISUAL ARTS
HETHERINGTON, Paul, Australia, 356/55
2014 Jolley Prize
Jennifer Down was named the winner of the 2014 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize in front of a packed house at Melbourne Writers Festival on Saturday, 30 August. Ms Down, a Victorian writer, received $5,000 for her story entitled ‘Aokigahara’.
Jennifer Down at the announcement ceremony (photograph by Torunn Momtazi)
The Jolley Prize – one of Australia’s most lucrative and visible awards for short fiction – attracted about 1,200 entries. The judges – Patrick Allington, Cassandra Atherton, and Amy Baillieu – shortlisted three stories:
Jennifer Down – ‘Aokigahara’ First place: $5,000
Faith Oxenbridge – ‘Doisneau’s Kiss’ Second place: $2,000
Cate Kennedy – ‘The Art of Life’ Third place: $1,000
All three stories appear in full in our September Fiction issue.
The judges also highly commended two stories which we will publish in coming months: Gregory Day’s ‘The 900s Have Moved’ and ‘The Great Dying’ by American writer Larry O’Connor.
We will begin seeking entries in the sixth Jolley Prize in December 2014.
Readers’ Choice Award
To celebrate the Jolley Prize (and to find out which of the three shortlisted stories our readers like most), we are also presenting the Readers’ Choice Award. You have until October 20 to nominate your favourite story. To do so, simply email us with the title of the story you wish to nominate, along with your full name, address, and telephone number: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
We have some special prizes for three lucky voters. One will receive twenty-five Text Classics, courtesy of Text Publishing. Two other voters will receive two-year complimentary subscriptions to ABR Online.
‘ABR has also contributed to elevating the status of the short story with its annual Jolley Prize.’ – Blanche Clark, Herald Sun
You may be interested in reading the shortlisted stories from previous years.
More information about all our past winners is available here.
We also recommend you read our list of Frequently Asked Questions before contacting us with a question about the Jolley Prize.
Entries for the 2015 Jolley Prize will officially open in December. Keep up to date with the latest developments on the prize, as well as other interesting ABR news and giveaways, by signing up to our newsletters.
