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  • Pocketry Prize for Unpublished Poets 2021 Winner

    Pocketry Prize for Unpublished Poets 2021 Winner

    A huge thank you all the poets who submitted their work to this year’s competition. It’s no mean feat to go through your poems and agonise over which ones to include in a collection. It’s always hard to know what a judge may or may not like. So I’d like to thank all you poets for trusting Pocketry with your work. It’s always a pleasure and a delight to read work from fresh voices! Themes and subjects of the collections included childhood, parenting, relationships, love, grief, hospitals and illness, homelessness, nature and writing. It was wonderful to see poets try different forms including sonnets, free verse, haikus, tercets and couplets as well as a using a range of poetic devices such as rhyme, metaphor, personification and simile. And now, without further ado, Pocketry is pleased to announce Lakshmi R. Kanchi as the 2021 Pocketry Prize for Unpublished Poets winner with their collection, imagick.

    Lakshmi’s collection will be published by Pocketry and will be available to purchase in Pocketry’s online shop.

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    There were three highly commended entries:

    earthlings by Kristina Deminick,

    Beyond the eucalypts by Steph Amir and

    Clear Answers by Zoe Simmons.

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    For poets looking to improve their submissions, I recommend reading the submission guidelines carefully. Make sure your poems meet the required line lengths and widths and do not exceed the maximum number of poems if you want your entry to be considered. All entries are judged blind without knowing who the author is so do not put your name anywhere on your document or in the file name. If you do, your entry is immediately disqualified.

    In judging the prize, I was looking for poems that were relatable, universal and spoke to the experience of being human. The poems that stood out used evocative language, vivid images and had a strong sense time / place or personality. They also had a solid grasp of form and demonstrated various poetic devices including enjambment, metaphor, repetition and rhyme.

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    Thank you once again to all the poets who submitted their entries to the Pocketry Prize for Unpublished Poets. It was wonderful to see so many emerging poets writing to such a high standard.

  • Award Ceremony for the Pocketry Prize for Unpublished Poets

    Award Ceremony for the Pocketry Prize for Unpublished Poets

    After all the disruptions of the past few months, Pocketry is excited to announce the awards ceremony for the Pocketry Prize for Unpublished Poets!

    You are cordially invited to attend the online awards ceremony on Zoom. Come along to find out just who will win three hours of online mentorship and publication of their poetry in an instant book.

    Pocketry Prize for Unpublished Poets Awards Ceremony

    6.30pm AEDT

    Wednesday 23rd March 2022

    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85692324574

  • Pocketry Prize Winners

    Pocketry Prize Winners

    Lakshmi R Kanchi won the 2021 Pocketry Prize for Unpublished Poets with her collection, imagick.

    Lakshmi’s collection will be published as an A6 sized instant book by Pocketry. It will be available to purchase in Pocketry’s online shop.

     

    There were three highly commended entries:

    earthlings by Kristina Deminick,

    Beyond the eucalypts by Steph Amir and

    Clear Answers by Zoe Simmons.

     

    Melbourne poet and actor, Sophia Riozzi won the inaugural Pocketry Prize for Unpublished Poets with her collection, Year of the Double Autumn.

     

    There were three highly commended entries:

    Lorikeets by Steph Amir,

    Stray Perceptions by Melissa Favasuli and

    Pandemic 575: A Collection of Haiku for the Year 2020 by Megan Riedl.

     

  • Winner of the 2020 Pocketry Prize for Unpublished Poets

    Winner of the 2020 Pocketry Prize for Unpublished Poets

    Last night an online awards ceremony was held for the inaugural Pocketry Prize for Unpublished Poets. It was wonderful to see so many of the entrants at the ceremony and ‘meet’ them in person so to speak. Australian poet, Carolyn Masel, who will mentor the winner was also there and gave a lovely speech.

    The standard of the entries was high and I have to thank all the amazing poets who were brave enough to send in their work. It takes courage to share your poetry with other people, more so when you are exposing yourself to rejection. There as a lot of promise in the submitted poems and it was an honour to read poets at the start of their career.

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    Pocketry is pleased to announce Sophia Riozzi as the 2020 Pocketry Prize for Unpublished Poets winner with her collection, The Year of the Double Autumn.

    Sophia’s collection will be published in an instant book by Pocketry in early 2021 and will be available to purchase in Pocketry’s online shop.

    There were three highly commended entries: Lorikeets by Steph Amir, Stray Perceptions by Melissa Favasuli and Pandemic 575: A Collection of Haiku for the Year 2020 by Megan Riedl.

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    Thank you to all the poets who submitted their entries for the inaugural Pocketry Prize for Unpublished Poets. I was pleased to see so many emerging poets writing to such a high standard. The future of poetry is safe in your hands!