2018 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize Archives

Prize Winning Poems from our Black Cockatoo Editors Brenda Saunders & Yvette Henry Holt

Verity La are proud of the achievements of all our fantastic editors. Recently, poems from two of our Black Cockatoo editors, Brenda Saunders and Yvette Henry Holt, placed as Winner & Highly …

Inside my head <br> (Susan Hawthorne) </br>March 26, 2019
for my father Inside my head are patterns a quilt of paddocks seen from the cockpit of the Tiger Moth the coastline is drawn in waves, crumpled like silk maps ... Read More
Yo Soy Mexico City <br> (Atreyee Gupta)July 26, 2019
Yo soy poderosa, yo soy abultado — El Monstruo I beat with the syncopated rhythm of twenty-five million hearts criss-crossing my sinking calles Me quema con potencial bajo del decaimiento ... Read More
Sarah T (Liam Ferney)March 22, 2018
I bring you back Cathay. That’s what Cathy says off the plane from Denpasar. A bottle of Piper on my bed waiting for you while you outwait an Operations Manager’s ... Read More