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Poetry Magazine Award
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Poetry Society of Australia Award
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Awards
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Australian Awards
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History
This competition was offered by 'Poetry' magazine, which was published by the Poetry Society of Australia. Contestants were required to enter three poems each and the winner's second and third poems were also highly commended by a panel headed by Professor Leonie Kramer. (http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page15953362)
In 1963, it was a requirement that poems entered were unpublished and 'signed by a pseudonym while the writer's real name and address was to be enclosed in a sealed envelope, upon which the pseudonym is written.' The award that year was announced on World Poetry Day. (http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page24671280)
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 1972
winner John Forbes -
Year: 1971
winner East i "Autumn morning, Dandenong line fogbound,", 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: East : Poems 1970-74 1976; New and Selected Poems 1971-1993 1996; (p. 3-7) -
Year: 1970
winner Relation i "MICHELLE 've become tired now", 1970 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Magazine , December vol. 18 no. 6 1970; (p. 25-27)winner John Scott -
Year: 1968
winner Marjory O'Dea -
Year: 1967
winner Fragments of O'Flaherty 1967 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Magazine , December no. 6 1967; (p. 6-7) The Penguin Book of Australian Verse 1972; (p. 432-436)
Works About this Award
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O'Flaherty's Fragments Collect a Prize 1967 single work biography
— Appears in: The Australian , 25 November 1967; (p. 8) -
Declaring a Winner 1963 single work criticism
— Appears in: Poetry Magazine , no. 6 1963; (p. 2-3)
