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After much deliberation, Van Son chose the following poems as the winners of the 2023 Tom Collins Poetry Prize. Congratulations to all.

First: Mother and Child, by Michael Robinson (WA).

Second: Two Visitation Dreams, by Alan Fyfe (WA)

Third: Wedge-tailed Eagle, by David Atkinson (NSW)

Highly Commended: Figure without a landscape, by Isi Unikowski (ACT)

Highly Commended: Window Birds, by Mark O’Flynn (NSW)

Commended: Looking for the River, by Kay Cairns (WA)

Commended: Widow’s Walk, by David Terelinck (QLD); and

Commended: Internalising Everest, by Ross Jackson (WA).

The Tom Collins Poetry Prize began in 1975 and is named after Tom Collins, the pen name of Australian writer Joseph Furphy (1843 – 1912).