Friday, May 19, 2017

'Breaking the Days’ shortlisted in Kenneth Slessor Prize



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Many congrats to Jill Jones for making the shortlist for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, part of the 2017 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, for Breaking the Days (Whitmore Press).

Jill’s 2015 collection sits alongside those by other distinguished poets whose works have also been shortlisted: Peter Boyle, Paul Hetherington, Antigone Kefala, John Kinsella and Ellen van Neerven.

More details at the State Library of New South Wales website.

The winner of the $30,000 prize will be announced at the State Library on
22 May.

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