The 2018 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize Buy this issue Results from the 2018 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize, Australia’s only open-age Indigenous poetry prize for an unpublished poem. With poems from Brenda Saunders, Claire G Coleman and Yvette Henry Holt. Issue Contents Editorial About the prize Editorial team Poetry Prize Highly Commended: Descendant, MABO and Woman Jilian Boyd Bowie Highly Commended: Mother(s) Native Tongue Yvette Henry Holt Highly Commended: I am the road Claire G Coleman Highly Commended: Waiali Possum Cloak Julie Jedda Janson Winner: Quandongs Brenda Saunders Browse the issue: Editorial Published in Overland Issue The 2018 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize · About the prize Editorial team Established in 2016, Queensland Poetry Festival’s Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize is Australia’s only open-age Indigenous poetry prize for an unpublished poem. Named in honour of Oodgeroo Noonuccal, the first Aboriginal Australian to publish a book of verse, after receiving permission from Oodgeroo’s family and in close consultation with Quandamooka Festival. Poetry Prize Published in Overland Issue The 2018 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize · Highly Commended: Descendant, MABO and Woman Jilian Boyd Bowie My voice echoes the cries of my forefathers My feet trek truths of my ancestors I rise in the essence of my predecessors Published in Overland Issue The 2018 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize · Highly Commended: Mother(s) Native Tongue Yvette Henry Holt we are thieves of sunlight mother and i, soaking in the seasonal crusts Published in Overland Issue The 2018 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize · Highly Commended: I am the road Claire G Coleman My grandfather was the bush, the coast, salmon gums, hakeas, blue-grey banskias Wind-whipped water, tea-black estuaries, sun on grey stone My grandfather was born on Country, was buried on Country Published in Overland Issue The 2018 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize · Highly Commended: Waiali Possum Cloak Julie Jedda Janson By waragal nightfall, Koori ngurra, Black’s camp. Firelight - tree flickering. Sounds of singing, gumleaf playing, trilling. Arriving in her true country, calling her, singing her. Published in Overland Issue The 2018 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize · Winner: Quandongs Brenda Saunders I remember days at La Pa going out with the Aunties to look for quandongs Previous Issue 231 Winter 2018 Next Issue 232 Spring 2018
