Hourani wins 2025 Mary Gilmore Prize
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) has announced Hasib Hourani the winner of the 2025 Mary Gilmore Prize for rock flight (Giramondo).
The Mary Gilmore Prize is awarded for a poet’s first book of poetry. Rock Flight was chosen from a shortlist of six.
Living on Wangal Country in Sydney, Hourani is a Lebanese-Palestinian writer, editor, arts worker and educator. His work has appeared in Meanjin, Overland, Australian Poetry and Cordite. Rock Flight won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry at the 2025 NSW Literary Awards.
Judges Kate Fagan (chair), Jazz Money and Mark Byron said, ‘Rock Flight is an extended negotiation with certainty: the certainty of colonial violence, of dispossession, of the forces that degrade home and homeland, and of the suffering to self and family and collective identity that comes of its modern connections.’
Last year’s winner was Dan Hogan for Secret Third Thing (Cordite).
More details are available on the ASAL website.
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