Carbis shortlisted for international poetry award

The poetry collection I Have Decided to Remain Vertical (Puncher & Wattmann) by Melbourne poet and creative writing teacher Gayelene Carbis has been shortlisted for the Welsh-based Poetry Book Awards.

The shortlist also includes the following titles:

• I Do Everything I’m Told (Megan Fernandes, Tin House)
• After the Flood Comes the Apologies (Naoise Gale, Nine Pens)
• The Maggot on Maple Street (Courtenay Schembri Gray, self-published)
• A Census of Preconceptions (Oz Hardwick, SurVision Books)
• Why We Fished (Michael Loderstedt, Red Hawk Publications)
• Helen of Bikini (Phoebe Reeves, Lily Poetry Review Books)
• Inside Out (Julie-Ann Rowell, Turas Press)
• Reap (Mara Adamitz Scrupe, Shipwreckt Books)
• The Two of Them Might Outlast Me (Jeanine Walker, Groundhog Poetry Press).

With a first prize of £400 (A$775), the Poetry Book Awards is an annual, international book award that recognises ‘the best poetry books produced by indie writers, self-published authors or books published by small, truly independent presses’.

See more information on the website here.

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