The 2012 W B Yeats Poetry Prize for Australians

The W B Yeats Poetry Prize for Australians

is accepting entries for the 2012 Prize.

Closing date is December 31, 2012

First Prize AU $500. 00

Runner up Prize AU $75. 00

Commendation Certificates

The Poetry Prize is open to residents of Australia

and New Zealand for previously unpublished poems

Entries will be judged by

Earl Livings  & Catherine Bateson

RULES

# Entries to be typed on one side of paper

# NO identification of author on the poem

# Name, address and contact details on

a seperate page please

# 50 line maximum limit

# Open style

# Entries may be submitted online:

in a Word doc1997 -2003

or Pdf document.

To pay with PayPal please click on

"WBYeats PoetryPrize" at top of page and select

"PayPal" in the drop down agenda,

or by standard mail.

# Entry fee is AU $7. 50 first entry

#AU $5. 00 each per extra poems

Cheuqes/Postal Orders to be made payable to

"The W B Yeats Poetry Prize"

#  Posted entries will only be returned where a stamped addressed envelope is provided

Post entries to:

W B Yeats Poetry Prize

6 Samuel Close

Berwick, Victoria 3806



The W B Yeats Poetry Prize reserves the right to publish the Winning and Commended poems

in a printed report and on this website.

Copyright remains with poet.

For further information please send email to:

poetryprize@johnbutleryeatsseminar.com

or declanfoley@ireland.com

Poetry Competition organiser

Declan Foley

Earl Livings

came to writing and poetry late, after careers and ambitions in mathematics, martial arts and music.

He has had poetry and fiction published in journals and anthologies around Australia and also in Britain, Canada, the USA, and Germany. Currently editor of Divan (www.bhtafe.edu.au/divan), Australia’s first all-Australian online poetry journal, and in 2005 won the Melbourne Poets Union International Poetry Competition.

Teaches a writing course at Box Hill Institute, Victoria, has a PhD in Creative Writing, and is working on his second collection of poetry and a speculative fiction novel.

Catherine Bateson

is an award winning poet and children's writer. Her last poetry collection Marriage for Beginners (John Leonard Press) was published in 2008.

She is currently working on a libretto with composer,

Matt Ottley, which retells the Rapunzel fairy story.

She co-hosts The Word Tree, a spoken word event.

The W B Yeats Poetry

Prize for Australia began

in 1996.

 We look forward to seeing

 many good poems entered

for the 2012 Prize.