Peter Porter Prize 2025 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2025 Australian Book Review (ABR) Peter Porter Poetry Prize has been announced.
Shortlisted poems include:
- ‘The Orphan’ by Sarah Day
- ‘Hook, Grandmother, Line, Marlin’ by Jennifer Harrison
- ‘Notes from a Room’ by Audrey Molloy
- ‘Moths that Fly by Night’ by Claire Potter
- ‘The Vastness of What Poetry Can Do’ by Meredith Stricker.
This year’s prize attracted 1171 entries from poets in 29 countries. A longlist of 10 poems was also announced.
Judges Sarah Holland-Batt, Paul Kane and Peter Rose said of the 2025 submissions: ‘As always, the field was multifarious, reflecting the variety and inventiveness of contemporary poetry, from the lyric to prose poems. The subjects, the impulses, the intentions were similarly various. There were poems about health, family, mortality, nature, travel, and overcoming. The immense challenges facing humanity—from the climate crisis and the rise of despotism to conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East—sparked poems. We were impressed by the technical ingenuity of many of the poems … Peter Porter himself would have relished the abundance of sonnets, villanelles, pantoums, sestinas, and ekphrastic poems.’
The prize is worth $10,000 in total, with the overall winner receiving $6000, and the four other shortlisted poets to each receive $1000.
Last year’s winner was Australian poet Dan Hogan for their poem ‘Workarounds’.
More information about the prize is available on the ABR website.
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