Wong wins Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2018

Hong Kong-based poet Nicholas Wong has won the Australian Book Review (ABR) Peter Porter Poetry Prize for his poem ‘101 Taipei’.

Wong’s poem was chosen for the $5000 prize from a shortlist of five. Second place was awarded to Tracey Slaughter for her poem ‘breather’. She receives $2000, while the three other shortlisted poets—Eileen Chong, Katharine Healy and L K Holt—receive $500 each.

Chair of judges and poetry editor of ABR John Hawke described Hong’s winning poem as ‘a powerful representation of urban dislocation, which cuts across cultures and languages in its swerving indirections and switches in style and syntax’.

All shortlisted poems will appear in ABR’s March issue.

For more information, see the ABR website.

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