Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize

Announcement of the 2024 Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize Winner

On behalf of the late Emeritus Professor Bruce Dawe AO and Professor Jason Bainbridge (Head of School and Dean, Humanities and Communication, UniSQ), please join us in congratulating the 2024 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize winner Louise Nicholas for the poem 'Between the Sheets'.

Further congratulations to the highly commended entries, Laura Shore, for the poem 'When Eve Returns in the Twenty-First Century', and Shey Marque, for the poem 'In the Crotch of this Fig Tree'.

View the winning poems.