Farmer's Poetry Prize
Subcategory of Awards — Australian Awards
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History

The Farmer's Poetry Prize was held every two years as part of the North Side Arts Festival in Sydney. The competition carried $420 in prize money with $250 for poets of all ages. Sections included : Poets of all ages, poets under 25 and Australian school students under the age of 18. Winning entries were published in Poetry Australia.

Notes

  • Total Prizemoney $420 Donated by Farmer & Co. Ltd., Sydney. Section A - Open to poets of all ages. Prize $250. Section B - For poets under 25 years Prize $100. Section C - For Australian school students under 18 years. (1) For a poem of any length on any theme. Prize $50. (2) For a critical article or essay on an Australian book of verse published after 1960. Prize $20

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 1975

winner (Section A) Turtles Hatching i "Waiting for weeks till the last one is ready to run, they", Mark O'Connor , 1975 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , December no. 57 1975; (p. 4-5) The Eating Tree : Poems 1980; (p. 33-35) The Younger Australian Poets 1983; (p. 137-139) The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse 1986; (p. 335-337) Selected Poems 1986; (p. 22-23) The Australian Literary Magazine , 29-30 March 1986; (p. 11)
winner (Section B) Watching Them Go i "There are few cars tonight, their lights tangent", Kevin Hart , 1975 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , December no. 57 1975; (p. 6-7)

Year: 1973

winner (Under 25 section.) Sea Scape i "there were no boats to leave", Keith Russell , 1973 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 48 1973; (p. 8-9)
winner (Class A) Flight Poem from the Barrier Reef Mark O'Connor , 1973 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 48 1973; (p. 5-7) Reef Poems 1976; (p. 23-27) Selected Poems 1986; (p. 11-13) Fire-Stick Farming : Selected Poems 1972-90 1990; (p. 10-12)
winner (Class C.) Bitterness : Eating a Cake i "I bit into a cake", S. K. Kelen , 1973 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 48 1973; (p. 10)

Year: 1969

winner Blood is the Water i "What theories come floating up as battles,", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 1971 single work poetry
— Appears in: Where the Wind Came : Poems 1971; (p. 3-15) Twelve Poets, 1950-1970 1971; (p. 87-100)
winner (Section C) John William Cardiff

for City Life

Year: 1967

winner (Open Section) A Poem for Maurice O'Shea i "It is wine-harvest, summer, the year's heart.", Geoffrey Lehmann , 1967 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , August no. 17 1967; (p. 7-8) A Voyage of Lions and Other Poems 1968; (p. 73-75) Selected Poems 1976; (p. 80-82) The Younger Australian Poets 1983; (p. 45-47) The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse 1986; (p. 302-303) The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse 1996; (p. 307-309)
winner (Section B: for poets under 25 years for a poem of any length on any theme) To W. H. Auden i "Your face an elaborate map:", Laura McGill , 1967 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , August no. 17 1967; (p. 19)

Year: 1965

winner (Section B) Fox -- Willalooka i "The earth has eaten too much sun,", Christine Churches , 1965 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , August no. 5 1965; (p. 23-) My Mother and the Trees 1977; (p. 137)
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