What is the Harri Jones Memorial Prize?
In 2011, the Harri Jones Memorial Prize will be incorporated into the Newcastle Poetry Prize and 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.

When will the 2010 winners be announced?

Friday 30th September 2011, 5.30pm at the Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Laman Street, Newcastle

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.