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2019 Yeats Prize Winners 

First Prize:

'Lost City' by Rob Wallis Castlemaine Victoria

Equal Second Prizes:

'Les Murray Through a Glass Bottom' by Tug Dumbly Erskinville NSW

&

'Leningrad Diary' by Dr Richard J Allen Surry Hills NSW

Highly Commended Certificates

 (In no particular order)

to

Alun Miles,

Murumba Downs QLD  for the poem

'In Silence'

to

Fiona Lynch Elwood VIC for the poem

'Shadow Board'

to Stephen Smithyman West Preston VIC for the poem

'Of Love Death and Valentine's Day'

to Daragh Byrne for the poem

'A memory of Father Flanagan in repose'

Commended Certificates

to

Alun Miles Murrumba Downs for the poem

'The Apple Seed'

to

Lyn Chatham East Geelong VIC for the poem

'Some Advice from Hamilton Hume'

to

Tracey Dunn Bulimba QLD for the poem

'Retreat' 

to

Pam Schindler for the poem

'The Leaving'



The 2020 Yeats Poetry Prize for Australia now open for entries.

Closing date is March 31 2021.

The Annual W B Yeats Poetry Prize is open to residents of Australia for previously unpublished poems. 

First Prize AU $600. 00 

Award Certificate

Two Second Prizes AU $100. 00

 Award Certificates

Commendation Certificates 

RULES  (PLEASE READ THEM)

# Entries only accepted from residents of Australia

# NOT previously published

# 50 line maximum limit

 # NO  identification of author anywhere on the poem

# Open style

# Where entries are submitted by snail mail:

Typed on one side of A4 paper with three (3) copies provided.

Please use Times New Roman 11pt or Garamond 14 pt

# Name, address and contact details on a separate page.

Mail to: Yeats Poetry Prize

6 Samuel Close

Berwick VIC 3806

For email entries:

Please include your name and address in submission message.

Entries submitted as an email message will not be accepted

# Entries may be submitted via email as an attachment

in a Word doc  or PDF document to:

   info@wbyeatspoetryprize.com

Entry Fee for first or sole entry  $10. 0 0  (Paypal click here)

Entry fee for each additional poem $4. 00 

by cheque or Australia Post Money Order payable to  W B Yeats Poetry Prize Inc.

or transfer from your bank to:  W B Yeats Poetry Prize for Australia

Bendigo Bank  BSB 633 108:  Account Number 144571882

P.S. If you discover any errors on the web site, please send an email. W B Yeats was a notoriously poor speller.  He was human, as we all are!

2019 Prize, Judges are

Mr. Grant Fraser 

Mr. Robert Drummond

 & 

Dr Edward Reilly , 

Retired VCE Literature teacher and latterly 'sessional academic' at Victoria University.

MA (Irish Poetry, Deakin 1992) and PhD (Poetics, Victoria University 2000). Editor Azuria (Geelong Writers). Ted has had poetry published in journals; in Australia, El Paso, Dublin, Salzburg, Tbilisi and Vilnuis



 Please note the entries sent to the judges are numbered.

NO details of the entrant are known to the judges until

they submit the winning entries to the Prize Convener.

The W B Yeats Poetry Prize reserves the right to publish the Winning and Commended poems in a printed report and/or on this website.

Copyright remains with poet.

For further information please send email to:

info@wbyeatspoetryprize.com

or

declanfoley2@gmail.com

 Poetry Competition Convener

Declan J Foley 

'We who care deeply about the arts find ourselves the priesthood of an almost forgotten faith, and we must, I think, if we would win the people again, take upon ourselves the method and fervour of a priesthood.

We must be humble and half-proud. . . . We must baptize as well as preach.'  

W B Yeats: 'Ireland and the Arts', 1901.