Cricket Poetry Award
Subcategory of Awards — Australian Awards
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History

The Cricket Poetry Prize is sponsored by the Sydney Cricket & Sports Ground Trust. The poem must depict life in and around the game and sport of cricket, in settings of backyards, parks, beaches, streets, village greens or social cricket.

Notes

  • Inaugurated in 2009, the award is for a poem 'celebrating an aspect of life in and around the game and sport of cricket, in settings of backyard cricket, beach cricket, club cricket or social cricket. The genre may be narrative, epic, dramatic, satirical, lyrical, elegy or verse fable.' The Cricket Poetry Award runs in conjunction with the Cricket Art Prize. The winner is announced at the Members Pavilion of the Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, New South Wales, in October each year.

    Source: Publisherscup website, wwwpublisherscup.org.au (Sighted 11/05/2009)

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2011

winner Boxing Day Test i "twelfth man leaves the field and we tumble back to our places", Cecilia White , 2010 single work poetry
— Appears in: Five Bells , Summer/Autumn vol. 17 no. 1/2 2010; (p. 82) Notes for the Translators : From 142 New Zealand and Australian Poets 2012; (p. 428-431)

Year: 2009

inaugural winner The Catch i "Standing under a rainmaker that is falling towards", Andy Kissane , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Publishers Cup 2009;
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