The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize

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Administered by Queensland Poetry Festival, the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize is Australia's only open-age award for outstanding unpublished poems by Indigenous writers.

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Editorial

About the prize

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Poetry Prize

Highly Commended: Fragments of the Shadow People

Ashleigh Johnstone

Highly Commended: Tick tock

Rachel Bos

Highly Commended: An Arrival

Grace Lucas-Pennington

Co-winner: My Ancestors

Sachem Parkin-Owens

Co-winner: Historians

Jeanine Leane

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Editorial

Published in Overland Issue The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize ·

About the prize

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Established in 2016, Queensland Poetry Festival’s Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize is Australia’s first open-age Indigenous poetry prize, awarded to an unpublished poem.

Poetry Prize

Published in Overland Issue The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize ·

Highly Commended: Fragments of the Shadow People

Ashleigh Johnstone

But one day, a boy appeared. The shadow people heard a loud cry and so they raced to where the sound came from.

Published in Overland Issue The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize ·

Highly Commended: Tick tock

Rachel Bos

Watch out We’re coming Out from the edges, the cracks, from under our bridges.

Published in Overland Issue The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize ·

Highly Commended: An Arrival

Grace Lucas-Pennington

We came across water made shore in darkness woke on sand.

Published in Overland Issue The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize ·

Co-winner: My Ancestors

Sachem Parkin-Owens

Each word I speak, every poem that speaks to you. The dampened cries of My Ancestors are heard too. Sky blue truths.

Published in Overland Issue The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize ·

Co-winner: Historians

Jeanine Leane

They come out to the community in a big four-wheel drive – towin’ flash campin’ gear – looked like they’d be stayin’ awhile – set up camp. The historians – they said they were – come out to help us tell our story.

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