Otago poet Brian Turner has
been awarded the $500 first prize for his poem ‘Mulching’, in the annual
Caselberg Trust International Poetry Competition.
Second prize ($250) went to
Dunedin-based writer Annelyse Gelman for her poem ‘Auden,’.
Poems by Mary Macpherson
(Wellington), Lynley Edmeades (Dunedin) and Jessica le Bas (Nelson) were highly
commended by this year’s competition judge, the distinguished poet Sue Wootton.
Another entry from Brian Turner was also highly commended.
In her report, Ms Wootton said
that each of the winning entries was ‘adeptly tuned, attentive to itself at
every turn. What is said is inseparable from how it’s
said.’
Over 200 entries were received
for this year’s Caselberg Trust International Poetry Competition, from writers
working in several different countries. Entries are judged ‘blind’, with the
judge being completely unaware of the author’s identity until after the final
decisions have been made.
The prize-winning poems and the
judge’s report will be published in the May issue of Landfall, and together with the highly commended entries, will be
posted on the Caselberg Trust web-site next month. Awards will be presented at
a function at the University Book Shop in Dunedin, in April.
Past winners of the Caselberg
competition include Mary McCallum from Wellington, and Tim Upperton from
Palmerston North (who won two years in succession). Previous judges have been
poets Bernadette Hall, James Brown and Gregory O’Brien.
The Caselberg Trust was
established seven years ago to buy and renovate the former home of writer John
Caselberg and his wife, the painter Anna Caselberg. The Caselberg house is now
a residence for writers and artists of all descriptions, and the Trust runs
residencies, workshops, exhibitions, and innovative arts events for the wider
Dunedin community.
Robert West
Secretary Caselberg Trust
PO
Box 71 Portobello Dunedin
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