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The judges’ report

Type
Editorial
  • By Samuel Wagan Watson and Melissa Lucashenko
  • The Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize

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’).

Type
Poetry Prize

Co-winner: Cut up song

  • By Andrew Booth
  • The Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize

Run it for me Bub.

Run the song.

That song I cut up, the one the ladies sing.

Type
Poetry Prize

Co-winner: Duria burumurrung: eaglehawk time

  • By Julie Janson
  • The Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize

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.

Type
Poetry Prize

Highly recommended: A poem about community

  • By John Graham
  • The Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize

The braille of our nation’s Soul

Like someone putting their hand up

Like someone digging deep

Type
Poetry Prize

Highly recommended: Missing home

  • By Kristine Ellis
  • The Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize

Far from her country, her home.

Missing the smell of the gum tree.

The sound of the cattle truck and the distinct cow smell

Type
Poetry Prize

Highest Quandamooka entry: The bunyip of Bummiera

  • By Cameron Costello
  • The Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize

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

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