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<\/p>\nThe Woorilla Poetry Prize was judged this year by Kevin Brophy and Alicia Sometimes, with the awards event taking place in Emerald, Victoria.<\/p>\n
Kevin Brophy spoke briefly about the judging process. ‘I guess I want to remind you at the start that judging a poetry competition is a very human process. There is a human at the end of the poems, trying to receive the poems and trying to be everything that a judge is meant to be, but in the end having to be simply a lover of poetry, and react to the poems as a lover and admirer of poetry and what poets do … which is to renovate language.’<\/p>\n
First Prize went to Tug Dumbly, with Lucy Williams runner-up. The three Highly Commended Awards went to Rachel White, Gayelene Carbis and Tug Dumbly, while the two Commended Poem awards both went to Shoshanna Rockman.<\/p>\n
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