Celebrating ‘Poetry of Home’

Jennifer Harrison launched Poetry of Home to a full zoom room

Softcover (if you like to smell the pages) or pdf (if your bookshelves are groaning).

Shortlist and winners reading (Top Left Clockwise): Lesh Karan, Anthony Mills, Luisa Mitchell, Belinda Calderone, Jenny Pollak, BR Dionysius, Carolyn Abbs, Isabella G. Mead

It takes a village. Thanks to all the poets who entered the prize; to all those on the Longlist and in the anthology, and those who read on the evening; to the judges/editors Rose Lucas, Anne M. Carson and Reneé Pettitt-Schipp; to Sharon Monagle for her image which was part of the Prize prompts and now on the cover of the book; to Dave Hughes for his design work; to Pauline for admin and publication grunt work; and to Jennifer Harrison for her endorsement, and the launch itself.

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…find home in the poetry that speaks to you…

Stunning line up of poetic talent, and fabulous to hear an hour of new top-shelf poetry.

These poems remind me that homes are peopled – defined by what we eat, wear, use, what we dream about. Home can be a threatening or threatened place, where we dissolve and reconstruct ourselves to become a new future of belonging. We begin at home, return home, take home with us wherever we go. Home shelters us, usurps us, sets us free. We look out from home’s windows, and the landscape looks back in. Jennifer Harrison

Read Jennifer Harrison's launch speech

The 2023 Liquid Amber Poetry Prize asked poets to respond to textual and visual prompts on the theme of ‘home’, including the image Home by Sharon Monagle which is featured on the front cover. This anthology contains the forty-nine poems in the Longlist of the Prize, including the winners.