The W B Yeats Society of Victoria



W B Yeats Society ofVictoria INC.www.wbyeatspoetryprize.com

PRESENT

Poetry Reading

at

Melbourne City Library

253 Flinders Lane Melbourne Saturday

December 14, 2019

3-5 PM

DRUCILLA WALL was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, her M.A. from the University of Nebraska-Omaha, and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. She teaches poetry and essay writing, and Native American literature, at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. In addition to poetry, her essays appear in journals and anthologies. She has earned awards and fellowships for her work, including the Mari Sandoz Prai-rie Schooner Short Story Award, the Western Literature Association Willa Pilla Prize for Humor in Writing, and University of Nebraska Fling and Larson Fellowships. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, and has spent summers with family and friends in Wex-ford and Galway, Ireland, since 1985. She is the co-editor of Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time (University of Nebraska Press, 2017). The Geese at the Gates was published by Salmon Poetry in 2011 to great reviews.

EAMONN WALL is a native of Co. Wexford. He is the author of Junction City: New and Selected Poems 1990-2015 (Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2015), Sailing Lake Mareotis (2011), A Tour of Your Country (2008) among other poetry collections. His prose books include From Oven Lane to Sun Prairie: In Search of Irish Ameri-ca (Arlen House/Syracuse UP, 2019), Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Tradi-tions (Notre Dame, 2011) and From the Sin-é Café to the Black Hills: Notes on the New Irish (Wisconsin, 2000). With Saeko Yoshikawa, he co-edited Coleridge and Contemplation, published by POETICA (Tokyo, 2016). Articles, essays, and poems have been published in The Irish Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Irish Literary Supplement, New Hibernia Review and other publications.

 

The Annual W B Yeats Poetry Prize is open to residents of Australia for previously unpublished poems. 

Prize Details  below

 2019 Yeats Prize IS NOW OPEN

Closing date 31 March 2020

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.

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:)

2018 Prize, Judge's were

Professor Ronan McDonald

Gerry Higgins Chair of Irish Studies

School of Culture and Communication

The University of Melbourne.

He previously held the Australian Ireland Fund Chair in Modern Irish Studies at The University of New South Wales, Sydney.

He is widely published in Irish literary studies, with a particular interest in Irish modernism. He is also interested in approaches to literary value. His books include

Tragedy and Irish Literature (2002)

The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett (2007) and

 The Death of the Critic (2008). Recent edited collections include  

The Values of Literary Studies:Critical Institutions, Scholarly Agendas (Cambridge University Press, 2015)

and Flann O'Brien and Modernism (2014).

His forthcoming book The Irish Revival and the Crisis of Value, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2019

 & 

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 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.