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Winner
Amanda Anastasi - Oceanic
Runner-up
Kerry Lander - Dog Feather
3 Highly Commended:
Amanda Anastasi - Suburban Gardens
Anna Fern - birds of passage
Katherine Hubbard - Red Coat,White Bones
Commended:
Helen Gildfind - strange teacher
Katherine Hubbard - Wither
Patsy Rea - The trapper
Jennifer Watkins - Gift
Shortlisted and in anthology:
Vivian Clare - Barefoot Days
Emilie Collye - Where We Live
Pam Davison - Masquerade
Anna Fern - Stormwater Drain
Hannah Francis - At Portarlington Beach & The Mark of Morning
Sara Hardy - Labour Day
Helen Gildfind - Living Alone
Jayne Hepworth - Desert Bones
Belinda Rule - Unexpected Man
Stephen Smithyman - Plenty
The 2009 Seagull Poetry Prize Winners
Winner:
Tracie McBride - Sleeping with the fishes
Runner up:
Rose Lucas - Clothesline
3 Highly Commended:
Belinda Rule - Renovations in the Suburbs
Felicity Schleyer - Winter Stillness
Chloe Wilson - Inheritance
Commended:
Edward Reilly - August Already
Shortlisted and in anthology:
Joanne Ha - Morning Glass
Denise Hughes - The Shopping Plaza
Denise Hughes - The Teapot
Katherine Hubbard - Untitled (from a series of poems entitled ‘Suburban Noir')
Rose Lucas - See
Tracey McBride - Guard Duty
Suzi Mezei - Australia Day
Patsy Rea - Look
Patsy Rea - See
Kirsty Rowan - Blink and you'll miss it
Kirsty Rowan - Hidden Life
Claire Saxby- Shift Change
Claire Saxby - On a train
Felicity Schleyer - Time Warp
You can read all of these poems in both the 2009 and 2010 anthologies, available for only $5 from the Williamstown branch of Hobsons Bay Library. |
Program & Events 
The Seagull Poetry Prize was first offered in 2008, with the 2010 Prize seeing a record number of entries. The 2011 Prize is now open to all poets who live or work in the western suburbs of Melbourne. Submitted poems can be in any form, up to 30 lines in length.
