Commended in Anne Elder Award

We were thrilled to see Alison Gorman's “A Woman Talks To Her Tongue” listed in the results of the Anne Elder Award for 2025. In commending Alison's book, the judges described it as “a collection in which craft is refined with a light touch and the weight of wisdom is borne with tenderness”, and elaborated:

“‘A Woman Talks To Her Tongue’ shifts between the domains of folklore and of personal memory, negotiating the shadows cast over the present by both. Alison Gorman imagines ancient spaces and vignettes of family life with equal vividness and metaphoric richness, her disciplined forms consistently serving her gifts for visual evocation and for symbolic possibilities. A warm, thoughtful and thought-provoking debut collection.”

We are proud to have published this deeply moving book, which is Alison’s first book of poetry, and thank her for entrusting it to us.

Our congratulations also to the winner of the award, Ender Başkan (“Two Hundred Million Musketeers”, Giramondo); and to Kristyn J Sounders (“Slipstream”, Walleah), Connor Weightman (“Fivehundred Swimming Pools”, Rabbit Poetry), Ben Walter (“Lithosphere”, Puncher & Wattman) and Kaya Ortiz (“Past & Parallel Lives”, UWA).

Read more about "A Woman Talks to Her Tongue" here