The Ron Pretty Poetry Prize (2014-2016)
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History

Inaugurated in 2014, the Ron Pretty Poetry Prize was run by Five Islands Press, and named for the press's founder, poet Ron Pretty.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2016

winner Mark Tredinnick For 'Panic Very Softly, Love'.

Year: 2014

winner Speaking Bluntly i "If words had a weave, we would feel when our lover spoke", Sarah Rice , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Best Australian Poems 2015 2015; Award Winning Australian Writing 2015 2015; (p. 238-239) Australian Poetry Anthology 2015; (p. 31)
As manuscript.
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