2018 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize Archives

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

Verity La November 30, 2018 Black Cockatoo, Poetry

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 …

ALWAYS KNOWING WHEN TO TURN THE PAGE: an interview with Nathan Curnow and Kevin BrophyOctober 30, 2012
More and more it’s being reported that poetry is experiencing a resurgence, primarily due to the form finding a home – or endless homes – on the internet. Poetry seems ... Read More
Vigil (John Clanchy)September 12, 2014
There had been a moon earlier on. A scimitar moon, Pete Davis had once heard it called. A curved blade of white light on a bed of black velvet. Black ... Read More
The Flu Hour (Douglas Luman)March 7, 2015
At the note of an owl’s hoot, a field mouse is made into a packet for its suffering. & here I set to nonsense, boiling a house worth of ... Read More