Delighted that my poem, illawarra likes – won 4th prize in the Melbourne Union of Poets International Poetry Prize 2022 announced Feb. 26. Thanks to the judge Nathan Curnow and Melbourne Union of Poets and honoured to be in company of such fine shortlisted and prize winning poets. The poem below probably won’t read well in reader, so here it is as a PDF.
I’ll update this post when MUP publish details of the award winners.
Peter Frankis writes 
lots of rich imagery going on there, Peter. Congratulations!
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Congratulations… yes I agree with msjadeli! Powerful imagery. Perhaps since I went to Wollongong Uni I can especially relate. Spot on!
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Thanks, so glad this took you back (it’s still struggle town).
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” like / coming back’s really not so bad” and (waves as empty as cupboards) – so good.. and love the parentheses! Congratulations Peter!
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Thanks so much Rajani, this was an old poem that I’d discarded, then came upon again late last year and it still made me smile. As my mum used to say, never throw anything away…
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I agree!!
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