Julie Manning

Julie Manning is a poet, visual artist and lawyer. Her poems have appeared previously in Australian Book Review, Cordite and the HWS Grieve Project poetry anthology. Her poem ‘Portmanteau’ was longlisted in the Vice Chancellors International Poetry Prize 2019, and ‘Constellation of Bees’ was shortlisted in the Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2020. She lives on Moreton Bay in Brisbane and is currently working on her first book of poetry.

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27 March 202029 April 2020 · Prizes

2019 Winner of Queensland Poetry Award’s Older Emerging Poets Mentorship Prize: Julie Manning

Julie Manning

If it were a thousand-limbed Monkey Puzzle seeded against the odds by continental seabirds, or a Mesozoic Bunya Pine cast out from ancient lands it would be celebrated as a rarity, but its aetiology is unknown