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Peter Porter Poetry Prize
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Entries are now open for the twenty-first Peter Porter Poetry Prize, which is open to all international poets from 1 July 2024 until midnight, 7 October 2024. The Porter Prize is one of Australia’s most lucrative and respected poetry awards. It honours the life and work of the great Australian poet Peter Porter (1929–2010), an honoured contributor to ABR for many years. First presented in 2005, the Porter Prize is one of the world’s leading prizes for a new poem. It is worth a total of AU$10,000 – with a first prize of $6,000.
... (read more)Last month, in more confessional mode than usual (needs must!), we wrote about ABR’s funding predicament in 2024: without federal funds and with only one state arts grant. Readers seemed shocked by the stark comparison between 2019 (when ABR received a total of $245,000 from six governments around the country) and 2024 (a total of $12,000, all from Arts South Australia).
Since then the response from supporters – regular donors and a pleasing number of new ABR Patrons (all listed on page 4) – has been extraordinary. Pace sceptics who always said that Australians will never support literature in the same way they support other sectors and related charities, ABR continues to receive sterling support from those who believe that Australia deserves a sophisticated literary magazine culture of its own, not just an imported one.
... (read more)Read the advances from the advances from the March 2024 issue of ABR.
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The judges for the 2025 Peter Porter Poetry Prize are Sarah Holland-Batt, Paul Kane, and Peter Rose.
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Welcome back to the ABR Podcast. We begin 2024 with the Peter Porter Poetry Prize. First presented in 2005, the Porter Prize is one of the world’s leading competitions for a new poem in English. It is worth a total of $10,000, of which the overall winner will receive $6,000. This episode of the ABR Podcast features the five shortlisted poets reading from their work, with introductions from ABR Editor Peter Rose. The winning poem will be announced at an online ceremony on 23 January 2024. To register for this event, visit our website.
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Read the five shortlisted poems for ABR's 2024 Peter Porter Poetry Prize.
... (read more)Read the advances from the advances from the January-February 2024 issue of ABR
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This week on the ABR Podcast we celebrate twenty years of the Peter Porter Poetry Prize with readings from six winners. We invited these poets to reflect on the prize and their winning poems. Hear fresh readings from Judith Beveridge, A. Frances Johnson, Damen O’Brien, Sara M. Saleh, Alex Skovron and Judith Bishop. The 2024 Porter Prize, worth a total of $10,000, closes on October 9.
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Entries have now closed for the twentieth Peter Porter Poetry Prize, which was open to all international poets from 3 July 2023 until midnight, 9 October 2023. The Porter Prize is one of Australia’s most lucrative and respected poetry awards. It honours the life and work of the great Australian poet Peter Porter (1929–2010), an honoured contributor to ABR for many years. First presented in 2005, the Porter Prize is one of the world’s leading prizes for a new poem. It is worth a total of AU$10,000 – with a first prize of $6,000
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'The Pelican Feeder', a new poem by Damen O'Brien
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