Holly Isemonger, Greatest Hit which won the 2013 Madrigal-Gonzalez

which won the 2013 Madrigal-Gonzalez Best First Book Award

It offers a generous prize of $5000 and publication with Vagabond Press for an unpublished full-length poetry manuscript by an Australian woman

In 2010-11 he spend time as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii

or those who come upon that identity from the outside

allusions to popular culture and to literature and the visual arts

Holly Isemonger, Greatest Hit which won the 2013 Madrigal-GonzalezCommended in the 2023 5Islands Poetry Prize for a First Book of Poetry In her long awaited debut collection, Holly Isemonger, engages, pulls apart, and ingeniously reassembles our language to surprising, ingenious ends. Despite the formal innovation there is nothing cold or dry about this collection: it is funny and sad, biting and wrenching, immediate and tender. These poems are excursions which incorporate both the communal and the deeply personal.