For a poem up to 200 lines or a suite of poems

• $10,000 First Prize
• $5,000 Second Prize
• 2 x $2,500 Commended

Closing date 30 January 2009

Australian Book Review (ABR) is delighted to seek entries for the fifth ABR Poetry Prize.

The winning poem will receive a prize of $4000. Shortlisted poets will receive $250.

The closing date is 10 December 2008.

From Australia Day to a rotting Macadamia stump; from a solitary suitcase on a carousel to a suitcase neatly packed with a conscience perhaps; from clean linen smelling of the sky to a teabag bleeding in a sink; from the continent spread out like a quilt to Ern Malley in quilted armour; from Lolita on cyber space to the hum of history: this sparkling Poets Union anthology covers a lot of ground – from Z to A in fact – and is testimony to the variety and vitality of the poets represented. Here are the carloads of whoever we are ranging over the world, both physical and imaginative, seeking and finding proof of who I am. Take the journey with them.