Robert Gray Prize for Poetry 2025: Short List

Poet	Poem Title
Gillian Telford	A March Saudade
Rhian Healy	A parable of birds
Pam Schindler	After the wet summer, damselflies
Alison Gorman	After weeks, I return to the garden
Miriam Jones	all our salts at ease (at the ladies baths)
Annie Hunter	Apostrophe
Judith Beveridge	At Spindrift Bay
Aloma Davis	Black summer
Jo Gardiner	Calathea and the Purple Owl
Will Fysh	Calypso
Libby Angel	Claw Machine
Susan Fealy	Coral
Mara Adamitz Scrupe	Coronae (or the general workings of the natural world)
Louise Oxley	Darwin Wasp
Jo Gardiner	Death Adder
Shey Marque	Ephemerality
David Stavanger	essential service
Linda Albertson	Forest jazz
Hemat Malak	From Behind Cleaned Glass
Jo Gardiner	In the mountains
Susan McCreery	Language Lessons, Ikaria
Isabella G Mead	Love Poems
Audrey Molloy	Milk Beach, Late Summer
Anna Kerdijk Nicholson	Moors & Walls
Helga Jermy	Murmuration of Starlings
Ella Jeffery	Nippers
Edie Popper	Noctalgia
Mike Ladd	Orange Bellied Parrots at the Zoo
Erin Martine Hutton	Ordinary Things
J C Northey	overhanging branches
Martha Landman	Pedestalled--Sir Samuel James Way
Jo Gardiner	Postscript to summer
Annie Hunter	Questions for a fallen starling
Isabella G Mead	Resurfacing
Edie Popper	Scribbly Bark
Debi Hamilton	Spotted Crake on Liberation Day
Jenny Pollak	Sunday by the estuary
Bronwyn Rodden	Sydenham Commute
Jo Gardiner	Tenancy
Jen Saunders	That's That
Isi Unikowski	The Japanese Gardner at Giverney
Judith Beveridge	The Octopus
Jo Gardiner	The White Cockatoos
Devreaux Baker	The Woman Remembers She is a River
Anne Casey	Unmoored
Alisha Brown	When I could walk again
Carl Walsh	when winter bites we'll see these days as halcyon
Brigitte Ross	White Faced Heron
Brigitte Ross	White Faced Heron II
Louise Nicholas	Woman