Congratulations to the following poets who have been shortlisted for the 2011 Newcastle Poetry Prize.

In alphabetical order, shortlisted poets are:
RJ Carver: A Mending Time
RJ Carver: Lines in Absentia
Julie Chevalier: darger: his girls
Nathan Curnow: The Lullaby Pregnancies
Stuart Cooke: Biophilia
Judy Durrant: the interim
Anne Elvey: Taking Leave of No. 5
Diane Fahey: Desert Flowers
Michael Farrell: Spoiled for Choice: 80 Ganymedes
John Foulcher: City of Light
Kelly Furgo: Open Letter With Commentary
Jill Jones: The Linden Tapes
John Kinsella: Postscriptums
Peter Kirkpatrick: Australian Gothic
Andy Kissane: Conversing with Ghosts
CD Nelson: The Darmstadt Year
Mark O’Flynn: History and Philosophy
Trisha Pender: Australia
Nathan Shepherdson: racking up dialogues on blue felt
Mark Tredinnick: The Wombat Vedas
Isi Unikowski Jedem: Jadem Das Seine
Simon West: Journeys out of Seasons
Jakob Ziguras: The Last Man in Pompeii

All shortlisted poets will be published in the annual Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology. Congratulations to all on this fantastic achievement!

The launch of the anthology and the announcement of the winners will be on Friday 30 September at the Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Laman Street in Newcastle.

Five prizes will be awarded:

First prize: $12,000
Second Prize: $5000
Third Prize: $1000
Local Award: $500
Harri Jones Memorial Prize for the best poem in the anthology by a poet under the age of 36: $250

The Hunter Writers Centre is delighted to announce the First Prize winner will be included in their special ‘30 Years of the Newcastle Poetry Prize’ anthology, published by the Hunter Writers’ Centre and Puncher and Wattmann.