Brian Castro wins Prime Minister's Literary Award (Poetry)

Congratulations to Professor Brian Castro, who has just won the Prime Minister's Literary Award (Poetry) for Blindness and Rage: A Phantasmagoria. The judges described the work, composed of thirty-four canto, as "a wicked satire on pretension and futility, a poem about ambition and literary endeavour as paths to frustration and failure, but it is itself a poem that manages to avoid these pitfalls and achieve a brilliant success." This prestigious prize is part of a series of Prime Minster's Literary Awards that celebrate outstanding literary talent in Australia and the valuable contribution Australian literature and history makes to the nation's cultural and intellectual life.