The joy of winning
Words by Rhonda Dredge
Melbourne writer and academic, Amanda Johnson, won the prestigious Peter Porter Poetry Prize last month and she was present at a Southbank ceremony to read her winning poem.
The poem My Father’s Thesaurus is addressed to her dad who contracted Alzheimer’s.
Ms Johnson makes light of the topsy-turvy world he created for his family and carers.
“You watched the piano and played the sunset,” she read. “The district nurse was trying to poison you.”
When she and her mother drove him home from the test among paddocks and cattle, “we hung our heads and hid the report in the glove box.”
Ms Johnson said she would use the $9000 prize money to help bushfire victims or reforestation in the Otways.
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