The Following entries received a Judge's Commendation
(not in any order)
Kevin Gillam
Daglish WA for his entry
"slack jawed in the dark"
John Carey
Chatswood NSW for his entry
"Reading Rimbaud: Sydney 1960
Tric O'Heare
Brunswick Victoria for her entry
"Lighthouse Keeper"
The winning and commended poems can be read by accessing the tabs at the top of this page.
The Judge's report will be available on line as soon as it is received.
The W B Yeats Poetry Prize congratulates the winners and commended authors. We also appreciate the work of all entrants and wish them every success.
"A line may take us hours"
W B Yeats.
2015 will be the 150 anniversary of the birth of W B Yeats I am seeking short essays from anyone with an interested in the life, work or contemporaries of W B Yeats.
It is my intention to publish the collected essays in a book to commemorate this milestone.
If you are interested please contact me at the email address below
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'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.'
