Judges' reports

The judges' reports discuss the winning poems and also give helpful advice to emerging writers.

• pdf197KB2024 Joan Fleming
• pdf152KB2023 Morgan Bach
• pdf224KB2022 Ash Davida Jane
• pdf185KB2021Tayi Tibble
• pdf57KB2020 Airini Beautrais
• pdf109KB2019 Chris Tse
• pdf613KB2018 Louise Wallace
• pdf562KB2017 Ashleigh Young
• pdf383KB2016 Anne Kennedy
• pdf331KB2015 Cliff Fell
• No Award held in 2014
• pdf363KB2013 Anna Jackson
• pdf157KB2012 Ian Wedde
• pdf209KB2011 Cilla McQueen
• No Award held in 2010
• pdf99KB2009 Jenny Bornholdt and Jason Kerrison
• pdf188KB2008 Paula Green and Samuel Flynn Scott
• pdf246KB2007 Andrew Johnston
• pdf237KB2006 James Brown
• pdf85KB2005 Bernadette Hall
• pdf124KB2004 Glenn Colquhoun
• pdf128KB2003 Gregory O'Brien