We begin with a framework strong enough To hold in its hands this planet’s poem: A scaffolding blunt as the flint hearted mountains And supple as green boughs twisted toward...
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Venie Prize Category: Winner
Hamlet in the Mind of a Country School teacher by Michael Farrell
‘Adani killed my father’ These words were in Adam’s head when he woke up, but he was unable to remember any dream they were part of It was still daylight:...
Read MoreJourney, the South Coast by Mark Miller
1 This Estuary This morning the mist comes apart before me, like fabric, like ashes – revealing at low tide the craters in sand left by night-anglers pumping for bait...
Read MoreOde to Earth by Shari Kocher
In her speaking she returns to us and I, with my Not-I awake, and going about my day, walk with Earth behind my lids, two by two, and breathing thus,...
Read MoreGod instructs His Angels to Burn the Notre Dame by Hailey Bonner
Remember that they razed the Standing Stones, Remember that they scarred the Sacred Sites, Shackled the Ground and the Tides, Poisoned the Bramble Cay and the Melomys. And so I...
Read MoreAnthropocene Poetics Part 2 by Noemie Huttner-Koros
the man next to me on the train has a swastika tattooed on his left forearm, three empty seats to my left. the man next to me on the train...
Read MoreCarried from Hell’s Gate, Tasmania by Kerry Greer
Pushing empty packets into the bin, I see the whales, on the news, 470 of them lying haphazardly like precious flotsam a child might find, washed up in Macquarie Harbour....
Read MoreBelow the Summit by Kristen Lang
The pandani graze where they’ve scattered, mid-step in buttongrass, necks wrapped against the cold. Torsos a brief illusion. We sit listening to their chatter. Centuries-old migrations woven through the slow-tumbled...
Read MoreBogong by Russell Buzby
They navigate by stars and the earth’s own iron, a thousand kilometres of spring dark on wings you could read newsprint through, bound for the granite country, the cool caves...
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2026 Venie Prize winner
Here is what judge Peter O’Mara had to say about all of the poems entered in this year’s Venie Prize: In such a conjectural, estranged times, this year’s entries arrived, not coincidentally, from a multifarious array of the environmental poetry index — the polemical, the elegiac, the embodied, the observed, the incidental, the expansive, the

2024 Venie Prize winner
Congratulations to Isabella G. Mead for writing the winning poem of the 2024 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize, Melt Ice. Here is what judge Tim Loveday had to say about the poem: Melt Ice is a work that speaks back to our colonial inheritance with an acute and painful awareness of how our complicity as