2025 Shortlist & Emerging Poet Prize Winners announced
Poet | Title of poem |
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SHORTLIST | |
Angela Costi | The Brace Position |
Annie Hunter | Aerial |
Kim Kenyon | The view under the bridge south of Kingscliff, at 5am. |
Carolyn Masel | New Zealand Bound |
Hannah McCann | Griffin/Girl |
Victoria McGrath | The Crow |
Mark Roberts | Theory of flight for two voices |
EMERGING POET PRIZE | |
Hannah McCann | Griffin/Girl |
Nikki Viveca | Augury |
Judges: Rose Lucas, Ali Whitelock and Willo Drummond
First and Second Prize Winners and Highly Commended announced: 12 August 2025
First prize – $1,250
Second prize – $650
Poetry of Flight to be launched by Rae White: Poetry Zoom, 27 November 2025
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Congratulations to the seven poets on the Shortlist
The 2025 Liquid Amber Poetry Prize invited poets to riff to the broad theme of ‘flight’.
A massive shout out to the seven poets with poems in the Shortlist. In their poems they fearlessly explore various forms of darkness and inequity to be escaped from, as well as things that lift the heart into ecstasy and hope – expressing the deepest, and the most soaring elements of our complex, often messy, human experience.
And to our Emerging Poet Prize winners
As a keen supporter of the entire range of voices within the poetry community, Liquid Amber Press are also delighted to celebrate:
our two Emerging Poet winners
Hannah McCann and Nikki Viveca.
The Emerging Poet Prize is an Editing Service Pack with Rose Lucas and Ali Whitelock.
Poetry of Flight – Pre-publication offer
All the poems in the Longlist will be published in this year’s anthology Poetry of Flight: The Liquid Amber Prize Anthology (forthcoming 1 November, RRP $29.99). All poets in the anthology will receive a complimentary copy.
And there is currently a pre-publication offer. Order copies now for a 15% discount.
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