2024 Poetry Prize – Longlist

Poet (Z to A)	Poem
Bridget Webster	St. Kilda Beach
Veronica Troup	Wordfind me
Ed Southorn	Wallaga Lake
Maggie Slattery	Kestrel Suite I
Shoshanna Rockman	Thank you Einstein
David Regan	The point of no return
Anna Quercia-Thomas	Phrygia, or there used to be bones here
Yvonne Patterson	weight of ash
Lili Pâquet	Plum
Kaya Ortiz	Planetarium sestina
Jan Napier	Cheynes Beach Whaling Station
Jan Napier	Albany After Fifty Years
Sam Morley	Keep driving while I watch
Peter Mitchell	Monkey Talk
Scott-Patrick Mitchell	poem as my mother pregnant with me
Scott-Patrick Mitchell	An Obituary for the Drive-In
Miriam Lo	Stopping Traffic (peri-menopause)
Michael Leach	Biogeography
Michael Leach	Shared Vision
Laura Koens	Binalup Dreaming
Alana Kelsall	eye pressure
Anne Kellas	Botticelli's Venus revisits the scene
Kirsten Johnston	Leopards and Their Spots
Helga Jermy	Femtosecond
Glen Hunting	On Entering the Program
Becky Houston	Open-mouthed
Kylie Hough	Ode to impermanence
Jennifer Harrison	Rise
Oz Hardwick	Play It Again, Werner Heisenberg
Sophia Haralambis	Even The Seasons
Irina Frolova	against and pro (-creation)
Marcelle Freiman	Chana c. 1940-1945
Jane Frank	Cathexis
Anne Elvey	Nothing less
Willo Drummond	Late Autumn
Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon	Jela in Black and White
Melanie Coram	moontide's rhythm
Ana Constantinou	autistic big girl gifted
Jennifer Compton	Some of the First Footage
Clare Carlin	Little Sound
Gayelene Carbis	Rich
Gayelene Carbis	Writing Witch Anne C
Eliza Burke	how to mutate
Allison Browning	Rhetorical Question
Samantha Bews	Strange Thief
Bron Bateman	Love, the hummingbird
David Atkinson	The Challenge of Algebra
David Ades	How Not to Avert a Catastrophe

Congratulations – poets of change

Change, it turns out, is the primary characteristic of our lives – whether we’re aware of it or not.

The astounding stylistic and thematic range of the 50 poems in this Longlist provide different observations of such currents of shift – in ourselves and in the world around us. They do what powerful art always does: they offer the reader the consolations of insight and connection which enable us to live our lives for the better.

The judges said ‘this was one of the most difficult, and rewarding, tasks – there were so many wonderful poems that we couldn’t include within the limit – congratulations to everyone who entered – we were honoured to read your work – thankyou’.

The Longlist (and the anthology) is ordered alphabetically, this year from Z to A – just to change it up!

The Judges: Rose Lucas, Ali Whitelock and
Reneé Pettitt-Schipp

Shortlist and Emerging Poets announced: August 12th, 2024
Winners announced: August 19th, 2024
Anthology launched by Anne M. Carson and poets reading: Poetry Zoom, 21 November 2024

First prize – $1,000
Second prize – $500
Best Poem by an Emerging Poet – Editing Service Pack with Rose Lucas

Poems on the Longlist will be published in the Anthology (authors receive a copy)

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