hotel to attend the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, he wondered if his credit card would bounce and thought of saying, "I'm just going across the road to pick up a cheque from the Prime Minister".An hour later at the National Library, Julia Gillard handed him a cheque for $80,000 when she announced that his book Interferon Psalms was the winner of the inaugural Prime Minister's Award for Poetry--established after years of complaint and campaigning by poets.
from Brisbane Times: There is a god, finds prizewinning poet
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