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Selected from a field of 1,360 poets, the largest in the award’s twenty-two-year history, Cheryl Leavy wins Australia’s top poetry prize.
Various Locations across the Central Coast, NSW
Various locations around Nipaluna (Hobart)
The State Library of WA, 25 Francis St, Perth WA 6000