The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize Buy this issue 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Poetry Festival, the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize is Australia's only open-age award for outstanding unpublished poems by Indigenous writers. Issue Contents Editorial About the prize admin 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 Browse the issue: Editorial First published in Overland Issue 228 Published in Overland Issue The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize · About the prize admin 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Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize is Australia’s first open-age Indigenous poetry prize, awarded to an unpublished poem.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 First published in Overland Issue 228 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. First published in Overland Issue 228 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. First published in Overland Issue 228 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. First published in Overland Issue 228 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. First published in Overland Issue 228 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. Previous Issue 226.5 Autumn fiction Next Issue 227 Winter 2017
