2022 Poetry Prize – and the winners are …

Second prize winner – Lindsay Tuggle for ‘The Specimen Dream’

First prize winner – Reneé Pettitt-Schipp for ‘Nowanup’

Comments on the winning poems by the judges…

Our second prize winner, Lindsay Tuggle’s poem ‘The Specimen Dream’ is poignantly situated in the present moment, redolent with challenges of ‘weather’ and covid-generated ‘fear of touch’. The poem inscribes an ongoing and lived encounter with loss, tracking in poetic lines and visceral imagery some of the ways in which ‘trauma’s fingerprints’ continue to mark the body of the living.

First Prize winner, Reneé Pettitt-Schipp’s powerful poem ‘Nowanup’ is an important poem for contemporary Australia. Through its gentle questions and evocations of place and purpose, it offers us a way to experience Country through engaging with its First Nations custodians, which is hope-filled and enriching.

Congratulations

The 2022 Liquid Amber Poetry Prize asked poets to respond to textual and visual prompts on the theme of ‘encounter’.

We have already congratulated our Long List poets – our 7 Short List poets – and our Emerging Poet winners.

Now the First and Second Prize Winners – drum roll….

Second prize – Lindsay Tuggle for her poem ‘The Specimen Dream’

First prize – Reneé Pettitt-Schipp for her poem ‘Nowanup’

Congratulations to everyone who participated – fantastic effort. And a huge thank you to our judges Rose Lucas and Anne M. Carson.

First and second prize winners receive cash prizes ($500 and $150 respectively). The Emerging Poet winners receive an editing pack with Rose Lucas and Anne M.Carson and the 54 poems on the Long List will be published in the anthology Poetry of Encounter – launched by Ali Whitelock at our Poetry Zoom Thursday 1 December 2022.

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2 Comments

  1. Ana
    Ana on September 18, 2022 at 10:34 pm

    How do we get to read the winners poems?

  2. Pauline Brightling
    Pauline Brightling on September 18, 2022 at 11:52 pm

    All the poems on the long list, including the winners, will be published in the anthology. And the winners will read at our Zoom Poetry evening 1st December – check out the Events page to register for that (free) – will be up in a couple of days.