Rarotonga‐based poet Jessica Le Bas is the winner of the Sarah Broom Poetry Prize 2019.

Rarotonga‐based poet Jessica Le Bas is the winner of the Sarah Broom Poetry Prize 2019.

The three finalists for one of New Zealand’s richest literary honours, the annual Sarah Broom Poetry Prize, have been announced following selection by award‐winning international poet and novelist, Anne Michaels.

The Sarah Broom Poetry Prize is one of New Zealand’s most valuable poetry prizes and aims to recognise and financially support new work from an emerging or established New Zealand poet. In 2019, the prize is an award of $10,000. Poets are required to submit six to eight poems (at least five unpublished).