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History
This prize is supported by The University of Adelaide. About the award :
In 1912 Ellen Milne Bundey paid to the University the sum of $400 for the purpose of founding with the income thereof, an annual prize in poetry for a person born in Australia, in memory of her parents, the late Sir Henry and Lady Bundey, to be called "The Bundey Prize for English Verse".
A prize of $200 is offered for the best poem or group of poems. The competition is open to undergraduate and postgraduate students of the University of Adelaide, provided that they are enrolled as of the 1st September in any given year and were born in Australia.
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This prize is offered for the best poem or group of poems in English by both graduates and undergraduates of Adelaide University, provided that they are enrolled at the University at the date fixed for sending in poems
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2003
winner y
Fox
2003
(Manuscript version)x401411
Z1195552
2003
single work
poetry
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Year: 1975
winner y
Teeth and Other Verses
Adelaide
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University of Adelaide
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1975
(Manuscript version)x401480
Z1214561
1975
selected work
poetry
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Year: 1965
winner Richard Madelaine -
Year: 1940
winner Spain i "Because imagination had me strained", 1942 single work poetry
— Appears in: Hymeneal to a Star 1942; (p. 26-29)
