Awards

                                                                                                                                                 2019

• The Eighth Strike                                                                          1st Prize                                                      Woorilla Poetry Prize
• Ice and Glass                                                                                   1st Prize                                                      Val Vallis Poetry Prize
• Bezoar                                                                                               2nd Prize                                                     Val Vallis Poetry Prize
• 13 Ways to Look at a Landscape                                            Joint 1st Prize                                           Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Prize
• Curtain Call                                                                                     Highly Commended                               Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Prize​
• The Line Marker’s Testimony                                                     Highly Commended                          Bruce Dawe Poetry National Poetry Prize
• The Map-Maker’s Tale                                                                  1st Prize                                                 Welsh International Poetry Prize
• Changing the Sheets                                                                     1st Prize                                                2018 WB Yeats Poetry Prize
• The Last Shave                                                                                Equal 2nd Prize                                  2018 WB Yeats Poetry Prize
• Mangrove Canal Road                                                                 Highly Commended                         2018 WB Yeats Poetry Prize
• An Immolation                                                                                Shortlisted                                           Plough Poetry Prize 2018
• Narrow Band                                                                                  Shortlisted                                           Plough Poetry Prize 2018
• The People from the Future                                                     Longlisted                                            Plough Poetry Prize 2018
• Saturn Devouring His Son                                                        Commended                                        Gregory O’Donoghue Poetry Prize
• Lazarette on Peel Island                                                                        Commended                           Tom Collins Poetry Prize

​                                                                                                                                                 2018

• On the Day You Launch                                                                            Winner                                      Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize
• Windward                                                                                                     Commended                           MPU International Poetry Prize
• Desert Island Records                                                                              Shortlisted                                KSP Poetry Prize
• Once Upon a Time                                                                                     Winner                                       The New Guard Knightville Poetry Competition
• Blood Moon                                                                                                 Longlisted                                 Lane Cove Literary Awards
• The Cold Snap                                                                                             Winner                                       Open Age, Other Poetry – Ipswich Poetry Feast
• A Giant                                                                                                           Highly Commended              Open Age, Other Poetry – Ipswich Poetry Feast
• Precarious Balance                                                                                    Highly Commended              Open Age, Other Poetry – Ipswich Poetry Feast
• A Survey of Australia’s Religions                                                          Shortlisted                                Newcastle Poetry Prize
• pH                                                                                                                    2nd Prize                                     Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript
• What We Know About Her                                                                    2nd Prize                                     Val Vallis Poetry Prize for a Single Poem
• The Tree is Burning                                                                                   Shortlisted                                Australian Capital University Poetry Prize
• Laika Was a Dog                                                                                          Shortlisted                                Australian Capital University Poetry Prize
• Lady With an Ermine                                                                                 Longlisted                                 University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s Poetry Prize
• The Lesson                                                                                                   Shortlisted                                Nillumbik Ekphrastic Poetry Prize
• The Darkness                                                                                               Finalist                                        45th New Millennium Awards
• Marine Snow                                                                                               Highly Commended              PAVE Woorilla Poetry Prize
• The Cursed Ones                                                                                       2nd Prize                                     Scribe Writers Literary Awards
• Yucatan                                                                                                                   Winner                                                 Ethel Webb Bundell Literary Awards
• Post Truth                                                                                                              3rd Prize                                              Ethel Webb Bundell Literary Awards
• Empty Buildings                                                                                                   2nd Prize (Joint)                              WB Yeats Poetry Prize
• A Kristallnacht Soon to Come                                                                        Highly Commended                       WB Yeats Poetry Prize

• Fruit Picking                                                                                                           Longlisted                                           The Plough Prize (United Kingdom)
• Canned Conch                                                                                                       Finalist                                                 Mississippi Review (United States)

                                                                                                                                                  2017

• The Sulphur Crested Cockatoo Opens His Dictionary to F               Shortlisted                                         Tom Collins Poetry Prize
• How Else But the Day                                                                                        Longlisted                                           National Poetry Competition (United Kingdom)
• The Prayer of Small Men                                                                                  Commended                                      Glen Phillips Poetry Prize
• The Uses of a Shark                                                                                            Highly Commended                        June Shenfield Poetry Award
• The Shore That Shelters My Children                                                        2nd Prize                                             Robyn Mathison Poetry Prize
• Dinners With Dead People                                                                             Shortlisted                                          Oxford Brookes International Poetry Prize
• Gibbous                                                                                                                   Highly Commended                        Lane Cove Literary Awards
• A Collective of Nouns                                                                                       2nd Prize                                              Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize
• Endurance                                                                                                              Commended                                       Ipswich Poetry Feast – Open Category
• Appraisal                                                                                                                 3rd Prize                                               Ipswich Poetry Feast – Open Category
• Drone                                                                                                                       Longlisted                                            Vallum Award for Poetry
• New Born                                                                                                               Shortlisted                                           ACU Prize for Poetry
• Alternative Energy                                                                                             Shortlisted                                           ACU Prize for Poetry
• Xeno’s Paradox                                                                                                    Longlisted                                            University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize
• The Haitian Miracle Man                                                                                2nd Prize                                              Ros Spencer Poetry Prize
• Private Lives                                                                                                        Commended                                        Scribe Writers Poetry Prize
• The Moth Years                                                                                                  3rd Prize                                               Patrons Prize for Poetry
• The Thesaurus                                                                                                    Highly Commended                         Patrons Prize for Poetry
• Company Men                                                                                                    Shortlisted                                           Newcastle Poetry Prize
• Baroque                                                                                                                 Highly Commended                        FAWQ Literary Awards
• pH                                                                                                                             Winner                                                 Peter Porter Poetry Prize
• Reviewing the Waves                                                                                      Commended                                       Eastwood/Hills Fellowship Literary Prize
• Knot                                                                                                                        Commended                                       PAVE/Woorilla Poetry Prize
• Returned                                                                                                               Longlisted                                           FAW John Shaw Neilson Poetry Award
• Rare Birds                                                                                                            Shortlisted                                          Henry Kendall Poetry Prize
• Signs and Semiotics                                                                                         Highly Commended                        WB Yeats Poetry Prize
• Slow Things                                                                                                         2nd Prize                                              WB Yeats Poetry Prize
• A Sky Empty of Birds                                                                                      Winner                                                  WB Yeats Poetry Prize
• A Solid Octave                                                                                                   Shortlisted                                          Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Award

                                                                                                                                              2016

• What Happened to the Oysters                                                               2nd Prize                                               FAW John Shaw Neilson Poetry Award
• The Memory Castle                                                                                       Commended                                        Eastwood/Hills Fellowship Literary Prize
• Orange                                                                                                                Commended                                        WB Yeats Poetry Prize
• The Fade Out                                                                                                    Winner                                                  Adelaide Plains Poetry Competition
• Meta                                                                                                                     Commended                                       Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Award
• The Treasurer                                                                                                  Shortlisted                                          ACU Prize for Poetry
• Meditations                                                                                                      Shortlisted                                          ACU Prize for Poetry
• Peter Cowan Poetry Prize                                                                         Commended                                       The Saturday Afternoon Football Call
• Transfer Failures                                                                                            Shortlisted                                          Newcastle Poetry Prize
• Sand                                                                                                                     Highest Queensland Entry           Val Vallis Award
• The Cranes                                                                                                       Highly Commended                        Ipswich Poetry Feast – Open Category
• Colony Collapse Disorder                                                                         2nd Prize                                               Ipswich Poetry Feast – Open Category
• Cortege for Richard the Third                                                                 Commended                                       FAW Tasmania Poetry Prize
• The Beach Eats Boys                                                                                    2nd Prize                                              Robyn Mathison Poetry Prize
• The Child and the Vulture                                                                          Longlisted                                           Ron Pretty Poetry Prize
• Facts and Fantasies                                                                                      Winner                                                 KSP Poetry Awards
• Rules for the Dead                                                                                        Highly Commended                        Martha Richardson Memorial Poetry Prize
• Extinct                                                                                                                Highly Commended                        Glen Phillips Poetry Prize
• Revelation According to Java                                                                   Highly Commended                        Glen Phillips Poetry Prize

                                                                                                                                            2015

• Leech Evening at Lamington                                                                     Winner                                                 WB Yeats Poetry Prize
• The Telomere Clock                                                                                     2nd Prize                                              WB Yeats Poetry Prize
• Fiddler Crabs                                                                                                   Highly Commended                        WB Yeats Poetry Prize
• The Fine Print is Very                                                                                  Commended                                       WB Yeats Poetry Prize
• The Moment of The Melody                                                                     Winner                                                  Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Award
• Sometimes We Fall Short                                                                          2nd Prize                                              Positive Words Annual Poetry Prize
• Hope                                                                                                                   Commended                                       Tabor Adelaide Creative Writing Awards
• The Folding                                                                                                      Shortlisted                                          Axel Clarke Poetry Prize               
• Fragile                                                                                                                                                                                 Grieve Poetry Competition
• Thermodynamic Asymmetries                                                                Highly Commended                        Philip Bacon Ekphrasis
• Predicting a Greensborough Woolworths Sit In                             Winner                                                 Ipswich Poetry Feast – Open Category
• Ouroboros                                                                                                       Highly Commended                        FAW Tasmania Poetry Prize
• The Button Lesson                                                                                       2nd Prize                                             FAW Tasmania Poetry Prize
• Agnosiophobia                                                                                               Highly Commended                        Robyn Mathison Poetry Prize
• Type Specimen                                                                                              2nd Prize                                              Robyn Mathison Poetry Prize
• Poised                                                                                                                Winner                                                 Robyn Mathison Poetry Prize

                                                                                                                                          2014

• A Better Fish                                                                                                  Highly Commended                        Peter Cowan Writers Centre
• MH370 Ghazal                                                                                              Commended                                      FAW Tasmania Poetry Prize