Published 15 March 201315 March 2013 · Writing Results of the 2012 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize Editorial team Announcing the results of the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets The $6000 major prize in the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets has been won by Luke Fischer with his poem, ‘Augury?’ The second place, a prize of $2000, has been awarded to Fiona Hile for ‘The owl of Lascaux’, with the third prize, of $1000, awarded to Myles Gough for ‘The watchmaker’s wrath’. The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize is one of the most lucrative and prestigious literary prizes in Australia, and is the only major prize dedicated to new and emerging poets. The prize was judged by Overland poetry editor, Peter Minter. In his judge’s report, Minter describes ‘Augury?’ as a contemporary ‘ramble poem’, a genre with a rich history ‘where the complexities of human ambivalences are made ineluctably central to the experience of nature’. Fischer’s poem, Minter says, ‘balances epistemological certitude on a hinge of doubt’. All three poems, along with Minter’s report, will be published in Overland 210, which is currently at the printers. ‘All the poems stand out for being “honest and well crafted”,’ writes Minter. ‘To witness such aesthetic authenticity in the writing of new and emerging poets is the great gift of the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets.’ The prize, made possible with the generous support of the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, will re-open on 1 September, 2013. In the meantime, consider taking out a subscription to Overland, ensuring you’re one of the first to read these prize-winning poems. Editorial team More by Editorial team › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays First published in Overland Issue 228 5 February 202417 February 2024 · Writing Here and now: our call for justice and liberation Tzedek Collective Our community is one of action and activism, informed by histories and imaginings of Jewish and other resistance. In our anticolonial work, we are explicitly anti-Zionist and work for a free Palestine. We take on this work not to centre or salvage Judaism and Jewishness, but to oppose settler colonialism in all its forms, and to acknowledge the specific and necessary role of Jewish anti-Zionists in opposing violence done in our names. 3 First published in Overland Issue 228 26 May 20238 June 2023 · Writing garramilla/Darwin Lulu Houdini We sit in East Point Reserve and look at how the gidjaas, green ants, make globe-like homes out of the leaves — connected edges with fibrous tissue that I later learn is faithful silk. Safe inside. Why isn’t it safe outside? I pick up the plastic around this circular lake cause this is the way […]