The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s Poetry Prize Anthology, Underneath, has been launched by the International Poetry Studies Institute at the University of Canberra.

The anthology contains the poems selected for The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s Poetry Prize by the judges: Subhash Jaireth, Judy Johnson and Alvin Pang. The prize is one of the world’s richest poetry prizes with a total prize-pool of $25,000 AUD, and this year attracted 1,206 poems from 724 poets worldwide.

The winning poem Iconic Photo: Lee Miller in Munich, April, 1945, by American poet Elisabeth Murawski, was selected by the head judge Elizabeth Smither. The runner up was Australian poet Lisa Brockwell for her poem: Waiting on Imran Khan. The shortlisted poets were Mara Adamitz Scrupe, Jonathan Lenn, Anthony Lawrence, and Jane Adair.

Poets appearing in the anthology are: Jane Adair, Adam Battestilli, Ann-Marie Blanchard, Christopher Breach, Lisa Brockwell, Lachlan Brown, John Carey, Eileen Chong, Claudia Daventry, Sarah Day, BR Dionysius, Dave Drayton, Hugh Dunkerley, Susan Elmslie, Nadia Geeves, Jason Gray, Steve Gunther-Murphy, Libby Hart, Ron Heard, David Hitchcock, Cynthia Hughes, Perry Janes, A Francis Johnson, Shari Kocher, Desmond Kon, Christopher Konrad, Mran-Maree Laing, Kristen Lang, Anthony Lawrence, Wes Lee, Jonathan Lenn, Richard Mauen, Shane McCauley, Rachael Mead, Meg Mooney, Elisabeth Murawski, Rohan Naidu, Basia Piechocinska, Sarah Rice, Kristen Roberts, Mara Adamitz Scrupe, Nathan Shepherdson, Leni Shilton, Lisa Stonestreet, Carolyn Supinka, Jonathan Tel, Mark Tredinnick, Peter J Wells, Carolina Wilson, Chloe Wilson, and Sue Wootton.

Edited by Owen Bullock and Niloofar Fanaiyan, Underneath is available as a free e-book from The University of Canberra and can be downloaded here.

The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize will reopen for entries on October 1, 2016.