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The Wordsworth Prize
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
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History

Conducted by the Australian Town and Country Journal, The Wordsworth Prize was a puzzle competition where the entrants wrote in verse, the answer to a puzzle.  (http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70476236)

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 1873

winner Answer to Prize Enigma i "Though Ink is as dark as the curtain of night", Eta , 1873 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 25 January vol. 7 no. 160 1873; (p. 116)
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