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Poetry

To Sculpt The Moment: Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2008 edited by Hunter Writers’ Centre

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February 2009, no. 308

To Sculpt The Moment: Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2008 edited by Hunter Writers’ Centre

Hunter Writers’ Centre, $20 pb, 170 pp, 9780975835456

Poetry

To Sculpt The Moment: Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2008 edited by Hunter Writers’ Centre

by •
February 2009, no. 308

Despite the deadly title, this anthology of twenty-eight poems from the 2008 Newcastle Poetry Prize is replete with gems. Assembled from 423 entries by judges Jan Owen, Philip Salom, and Richard Tipping – effectively the anthology’s editors – it is a brilliant sampler that few anthologies can match for the legroom offered to the longer poem and poetry sequence.

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Anthony Lynch

Anthony Lynch writes fiction, poetry and reviews. His work has appeared in The Best Australian Stories, The Best Australian Poems, Meanjin, Island, Australian Book Review, The Saturday Paper, The Age and The Australian, and been read on ABC Radio. His books are a short story collection, Redfin, and a poetry collection, Night Train. He is the publisher for Whitmore Press. A new collection of stories, HomeFront, is forthcoming from Puncher & Wattmann in mid-2025.

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