Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize 2025 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2025 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize has been announced.
The shortlisted poems, chosen from almost 500 entries, are:
- ‘Whistling Space’ by Chris Andrews
- ‘Finding Pan’ by Jonathan Cant
- ‘The Grape Picker(s)’ by Lisa Collyer
- ‘gunk’ by Alex Creece
- ‘deadbody’ by Ori Diskett
- ‘My Kaathi Sister’ by Julie Janson
- ‘How To Draw Tonight’s Water’ by Jill Jones
- ‘Waiting for Tortillas’ by Susanne Kennedy
- ‘Galing-gu giilang’ by Jeanine Leane
- ‘Cold Water Swimming in Lyme Regis’ by Audrey Molloy
- ‘Neck lines’ by Pip Smith
- ‘Augury: sea surface temperature charts’ by Georgina Woods.
The judges of this year’s award are Island poetry editor Kate Middleton, 2021 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize winner Amy Crutchfield and author John Kinsella.
Middleton said choosing the shortlist ‘was a process of rich discussion and as judges we were delighted to be able to bring together poems written from many different corners of contemporary Australian poetic practice’.
‘We looked for poems that displayed lyricism, innovation and the ineffable quality of “lift”,’ said Middleton. ‘We found in this shortlist exciting poetry attuned to the current moment – its histories, its warnings, and the search for language to transform it.’
The shortlisted poems will be published in Island 173, with winner and runners-up to be announced ‘in a few weeks’.
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