The Infant Vine, the debut poetry collection, by Isabella G. Mead has been named a finalist in the 2025 Queensland Literary Awards.
The Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection is awarded to an outstanding collection of poetry by an Australian poet. The collections on the shortlist include:
- The Oblong Plot by Chris Andrews
- Tintinnabulum by Judith Beveridge
- Kangaroo Unbound by Luke Johnson
- The Infant Vine by Isabella G. Mead
- Mixed Business by Alan Wearne
From the judges:
“Isabella G. Mead’s The Infant Vine abounds with unsettling encounters within and beyond the body’s boundaries. The collection grapples with experiences of transformation and (re)birth: child-bearing and raising, climate disaster and seasonal change, and the capacity of visual art to revivify the familiar world. Abundance and devastation coexist, and ‘the direction never changes: / begin again’.”
Find out more about the shortlist via the State Library of Queensland website.
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