ABR Poetry Prize to Judith Bishop

Judith Bishop is the winner of the 2006 Australian Book Review (ABR) Poetry Prize with her poem, 'Still Life with Cockles and Shells'. The poem, a response to a 17th century Italian painting, is described by the judges as 'unfailingly poised and suggestive', with not an 'otiose or misplaced' word. Bishop, a linguist, portrays herself as 'a "globalist" when it comes to language, and also, therefore, to poetry. I am just in love with the fact that each language brings with it a new horizon of experience; and each good poem does the same in miniature.' (ABR, no. 280, April 2006)

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