The 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the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize is Australia's only open-age award, presented to an outstanding unpublished poem by Indigenous writers. Issue Contents Editorial The judges’ report Melissa Lucashenko and Samuel Wagan Watson Poetry Prize Highest Quandamooka entry: The bunyip of Bummiera Cameron Costello Highly recommended: Missing home Kristine Ellis Highly recommended: A poem about community John Graham Co-winner: Duria burumurrung: eaglehawk time Julie Janson Co-winner: Cut up song Andrew Booth Browse the issue: Editorial Published in Overland Issue The Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize · The judges’ report Melissa Lucashenko and Samuel Wagan Watson The poems entered into the overall national Oodgeroo Noonuccal Prize were of an encouragingly high standard. At least a dozen strong poems did not make the list of Highly Commendeds (notably, ‘Skin 1968’; ‘The Woman I Am’; ’Henry’; and ‘Hear no, See no, Speak no Aboriginal’). Poetry Prize Published in Overland Issue The Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize · Highest Quandamooka entry: The bunyip of Bummiera Cameron Costello Eastward from the mountain haze across the bays enduring gaze Over soft white sands that surround the sleepy islands shore Through tea trees softly swaying is a lake neath a bunyips playing Published in Overland Issue The Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize · Highly recommended: Missing home Kristine Ellis Far from her country, her home. Missing the smell of the gum tree. The sound of the cattle truck and the distinct cow smell Published in Overland Issue The Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize · Highly recommended: A poem about community John Graham The braille of our nation’s Soul Like someone putting their hand up Like someone digging deep Published in Overland Issue The Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize · Co-winner: Duria burumurrung: eaglehawk time Julie Janson heir ghost blue eyes glowing with bright light. Her father sings his country walking through Blue Mountains. He sings great serpent’s swimming, swimming to make rivers. Published in Overland Issue The Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize · Co-winner: Cut up song Andrew Booth Run it for me Bub. Run the song. That song I cut up, the one the ladies sing. Previous Issue 223 Winter 2016 Next Issue 224 Spring 2016
