Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2024 shortlist announced

The shortlist for the 2024 Australian Book Review (ABR) Peter Porter Poetry Prize has been announced.

The shortlisted poems are:

• ‘Poem of the Dead Woman’ by Judith Nangala Crispin (NSW)
• ‘Immigration Triction’ by Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon (WA)
• ‘Workarounds’ by Dan Hogan (NSW)
• ‘Cuttle’ by Meredi Ortega (Scotland/UK)
• ‘Blagaj, Mostar’ by Dženana Vucic (Germany).

This year’s prize attracted 1066 entries from poets in 21 different countries. To arrive at the shortlist, judges Lachlan Brown, Dan Disney and Felicity Plunkett said they were ‘reading for language that was concise and perspicacious, language that arrested our attention in ways that immediately rewarded rereading’. ‘In uniquely different ways, each shortlisted poem demonstrates compelling awareness of the function not only of the poetic line but, more broadly, of syntax, grammar, diction and the power relations transmitted therein.’

The prize is worth $10,000 in total, with the overall winner receiving $6000, and the four other shortlisted poets to each receive $1000. This year’s winner will be announced on 23 January at an online event. All shortlisted poems are published in the January–February issue of ABR.

Last year’s winner was Seoul-based Australian poet Dan Disney, for his poem ‘periferal, fantasmal’.

More information about the prize is available on the ABR website.

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