The W B Yeats Society of Victoria

present a

PRESENTATION OF THE

2017 W B YEATS POETRY PRIZE FOR AUSTRALIA

 WAS  AT

COLLECTED WORKS BOOKSHOP

1/37 SWANSTON STREET MELBOURNE

WEDNESDAY JUNE 13, 2018 (W B YEATS BIRTHDAY)

followed by

KEVIN HART

reading from his latest book

Barefoot 

The Annual W B Yeats Poetry Prize is open to residents of Australia for previously unpublished poems. 

Prize Details  below

 2018 Yeats Prize.

Closed March 31 2019

First Prize AU $500. 00

Award Certificate

Two Second Prizes AU $75. 00

 Award Certificates

Commendation Certificates 

RULES

# 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.

# 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. 00  (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:)

2017 Judges are

 Dr Sarah Dowling 

 is an early career researcher from Melbourne, Australia who specialises in modern and contemporary American poetry.

She is the Subject Leader of Literature at Trinity College

of the University of Melbourne. 

& 

Dr Michael Heald 

is a Literature lecturer at Trinity College of the University of Melbourne and is also the author of three books of poetry. most recently The Moving World: Poems published by Freemantle Press.



 Please note the entries sent to the judge's are numbered.

NO details of the entrant are known to the judge's 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.