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History
'Established in 1993 with the encouragement of acclaimed writer Max Harris, this national award acknowledges the significant contribution that poetry offers to Australian literary culture.'
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2013
winner Homer Reith -
Year: 2003
winner (Rymill Poetry) Guichen Bay, 1952, 2002 i "Moss Morgan is gone and his long narrow cutter", 2003 single work poetry -
Year: 2002
winner (Rymill Coonawarra South East Award Poetry) Old Woman Ways i "She was the last Werneke in that hamlet", 2002 single work poetry -
Year: 2001
winner On Living Alone: A Guide i "I used to be a figure, you should realise,", 2002 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , Summer no. 88 2002; (p. 60) Geology : Poems 2005; (p. 1) The Best Australian Poems 2005 2005; (p. 122) The Blackbird Crisis and Other Poems 2005; (p. 1)winner (Rymill Coonawarra Southeast Award Poetry) Paradise 2001 single work poetry
— Appears in: Persuasions 2001; (p. 118-120) -
Year: 1998
Works About this Award
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Quality Wins Over Literary Awards Judges 1998 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 28 May 1998; (p. 90) -
Tamworth Writer Wins Harris's Poetry Prize 1997 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 9 June 1997; (p. 29) -
Reliable Look at an Unreliable Icon 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 24 April 1993; (p. 5)