When will the 2012 winners be announced?

The winners will be announced on Friday 26th October, 2012. More details will be announced as they arise.

What is a sequence of poems?

A sequence is a series of poems that function as a coherent whole. It is not a collection of poems.

What is the Harri Jones Memorial Prize?

The Harri Jones Memorial Prize was incorporated into the Newcastle Poetry Prize in 2011. It is awarded to the best poem in the anthology by a poet under the age of 36.  This prize was set up in 1965 after the tragic early death of T.H. (Harri) Jones. He was a Welsh poet, critic and lecturer in the English department at what was then a college of the University of NSW, subsequently to become the University of Newcastle. In the time from his arrival from the UK in 1959 Harri had a huge impact on the cultural and literary life of Newcastle. He is remembered not only for his own poetry (most recently published in the Complete Poems of T.H. Jones), but also for his virtuosity as a reader and a lecturer. He was known to hold his listeners riveted with his fine Welsh voice whether in class or at private readings. His friends and family set up a fund after his death to support a perpetual prize in his memory.