
Tom Collins Poetry Prize winners named
Entries in diverse themes, written in forms such as free verse, sonnets, prose, villanelle
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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).

First prize was $1,000, second $300, and third $100.
Read the judge's full report here.