{"id":256,"date":"2005-11-24T04:00:39","date_gmt":"2005-11-24T04:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/?p=256"},"modified":"2022-03-05T04:08:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T04:08:45","slug":"gwen-harwood-prize-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2005\/11\/24\/gwen-harwood-prize-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwen Harwood Prize 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A small crowd has gathered at Hobart Bookshop for the announcement of the winner of the Gwen Harwood Prize. <\/span>Island\u2019s<\/em> editor <\/span>David Owen welcomes guests, thanks judges <\/span>Adrienne Eberhard and <\/span>Kevin Gillam, “two individuals far apart \u2013 Kevin in Perth, Western Australia, Adrienne here in Hobart \u2013 a distance that could of course cause difficulties, but then again \u2026 maybe it\u2019s a positive!”<\/span><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n

David introduces Sarah Day, who describes the background to the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize. Gwen was born in Queensland in 1920, raised and educated in Brisbane and in 1945 moved to Tasmania with her husband William \u2013 a move she did not at first appreciate. But her life here became immensely rewarding and productive, not least being mother to four children. And over a thirty-year period she published seven highly acclaimed volumes of poetry including The Lion\u2019s Bride<\/i>, In Plato\u2019s Cave, Bone Scan <\/i>and two Selected Poems<\/i>. “Gwen Harwood is justly considered a major twentieth-century English language poet and it\u2019s therefore all the more rewarding to be able to announce this year\u2019s winners of this prestigious prize established in her name”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sarah announces the three Minor Prizes: first runner up Carolyn Fisher for \u2018A Life of Birds\u2019. “Carolyn lives in Ulverstone. It\u2019s always very pleasing to have a Tasmanian poet recognised in this prestigious national award. She is here this evening and will shortly red \u2018A Life of Birds\u2019.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“The second runner up is Ray Liversidge for \u2018The Divorce Papers\u2019. Ray Liversidge is a Melbourne poet whose first book of poetry, Obeying the Call<\/i>, was published by Ginninderra Press in 2003. His verse novel The Barrier Range<\/em> will be published next year by Flat Chat Press.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“The third runner up is Lucy Holt for \u2018The Love-doggedness Sonnets – Part I\u2019. Lucy is a twenty-three year old poet who lives in Brunswick, Victoria. Her collection Stories of Bird<\/i> was published earlier this year by the Poets Union.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“I have much pleasure,” Sarah continues, “in announcing that the winner of the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize for 2005 is Mark Tredinnick for \u2018The Child & Time\u2019. Mark is an essayist, poet, critic and writing teacher. He lives both in Katoomba and in Sydney, NSW. His books include The Land\u2019s Wild Music<\/i>, published this year, and the forthcoming landscape memoir The Blue Plateau<\/i>. He is also the editor of A Place on Earth: An Anthology of Nature Writing from Australia<\/i> and North America<\/em>. Mark teaches creative nonfiction, nature writing, ecology and literature, business writing, composition and grammar in the University of Sydney\u2019s continuing education program and elsewhere. His work will be familiar to readers of Island<\/i>: his essay \u2018Days of Christmas\u2019 won the 2005 Wildcare Tasmania Nature Writing Prize, and he will in fact soon be in residence at Lake St Clair, as part of that prize winner\u2019s package.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“As we did last year, with the winner not from Tasmania, the winning poem is read out on the winner\u2019s behalf. This evening John Hale, well known stage actor and good friend of Island<\/i> magazine, will read \u2018The Child & Time\u2019.”<\/span><\/p>\n

John Hale makes his way to the front of the room \u2013 “I\u2019m an actor & I need a stage!” \u2013 noting how pleased he is to be faced with a small crowd this evening. “I\u2019ve read Mark\u2019s poem, and think it best felt in a room where there\u2019s a sense of intimacy and perhaps a shared bottle of wine. It\u2019s the kind of poem suggestive of whispers in a lover\u2019s ear, a poem of intimacy and of great beauty.”<\/span><\/p>\n

David Owen rounds off the evening with ‘Thanks John. I only wish we’d had a recorder here to tape your rendition of Mark’s poem’.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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