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  • The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize

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Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize is Australia’s first open-age Indigenous poetry prize, awarded to an unpublished poem.

Type
Poetry Prize

Co-winner: Historians

  • By Jeanine Leane
  • The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize

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.

Type
Poetry Prize

Co-winner: My Ancestors

  • By Sachem Parkin-Owens
  • The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize

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

Type
Poetry Prize

Highly Commended: An Arrival

  • By Grace Lucas-Pennington
  • The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize

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

Type
Poetry Prize

Highly Commended: Tick tock

  • By Rachel Bos
  • The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize

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

Type
Poetry Prize

Highly Commended: Fragments of the Shadow People

  • By Ashleigh Johnstone
  • The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize

But one day, a boy appeared.

The shadow people heard a loud cry and so they raced to where the sound came from.

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