New Shoots Poetry Prize (2016)
Subcategory of Awards — Australian Awards
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History

Offered by Rochford Street Review and The Red Room Company in a single instance, in 2016. In addition to the main New Shoots Poetry Prize, there was also a category for the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney Poetry Prize.

Source: https://rochfordstreetreview.com/2016/12/01/12865/ (Sighted: 10/03/2025)

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2016

winner Fallen Myrtle Trunk i "in the temperate forests, the wet", Stuart Cooke , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: New Shoots Anthology : Poems Inspired by Plants 2017; (p. 12-15) The Best Australian Poems 2017 2017; (p. 36-39)
winner (Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney Poetry Prize) Leaving Wilona i "Here it was lost, that blood-quiet ground,", John Stokes , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: New Shoots Anthology : Poems Inspired by Plants 2017; (p. 18-19)
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Works About this Award

‘Fallen Myrtle Trunk’ by Stuart Cooke: Zalehah Turner Interviews the Winner of the New Shoots Poetry Prize 2016 Zalehah Turner (interviewer), 2017 single work interview
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , January – March no. 21 2017; '“ ‘Fallen Myrtle Trunk’ will form part of my next collection, which will be a kind of bestiary or garden composed of poems about a variety of animals, insects, plants and other things.”- Stuart Cooke'
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