Like to the Lark highly commended in the 2024 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry

I’m delighted that Like to the Lark has been highly commended in the 2024 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. You can read the judges’ comments here.

Thanks to the judges — Felicity Plunkett (panel chair), Kim Cheng Boey, Rico Craig — and to Terri-ann White and Upswell Publishing, and warm congratulations to the shortlisted poets — Pooja Mittal Biswas, Willo Drummond, Libby Hart, Caitlin Maling, Omar Sakr, Tais Rose Wae — and fellow highly commended poet Dominic Symes.