Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize
Subcategory of Awards — Australian Awards
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History

The Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize is open to citizens of Australia or New Zealand. The poems must be unpublished and have an environmental theme. 
 

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2023

Judged by: Peter O'Mara Alison J. Barton
winner I Watch a Cat Choke / Call It [Redacted] i "day [break] / and the [broccoli] is moulting / the sunrise in [subjective tense] smells of crushed", Tim Loveday , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 38 2024; (p. 104-106)

Year: 2022

Judged by: Georgina Woods Joel Davison
winner Below the Summit i "The pandani graze where they've scattered, mid-step", Kristen Lang , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 36 2022; (p. 111-113)

Year: 2021

Judged by: Carissa Lee John Charles Ryan
winner Carried from Hell’s Gate, Tasmania Kerry Greer , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 34 2022;

Year: 2020

winner Anthropocene Poetics Part 1 i "My dog dies", Noemie Huttner-Koros , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2020; (p. 46-47) Rabbit , no. 31 2020; (p. 96-98)

Year: 2019

winner God Instructs His Angels to Burn the Notre Dame i "Remember that they razed the Standing Stones", Hailey Bonner , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 29 2020; (p. 92-93)
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