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History
The Sunday Age poetry competition was for the best love poetry. A selection of the poems were published in The Sunday Age and appeared online. The person who penned the poem judged best won a copy of The New Faber Book of Love Poems.
There were two conditions. Poems need to be about the strange and sometimes unhappy madness of falling in love. And all poems need to be just 11 lines. (Sunday Age 5 February 2012 p7)
Notes
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A love poetry competition inaugurated by the Age newspaper in 2011. The running of the competition coincides with Valentine's Day.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2012
winner Autumn Rain Jazz i "Love, I'm here alone", 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 12 February 2012; (p. 4) -
Year: 2011
inaugural winner Untitled i "Is that you, still here", 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 13 February 2011; (p. 7)
Works About this Award
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Consuming Passion Sets Hearts and Pens Aflutter 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 12 February 2012; (p. 4) On 29 January 2012, the Sunday Age invited readers to write an 11-line love poem following a form adapted from Japanese syllabic poetry. More than 300 entries were published on the Age online, 12 February 2012. Short extracts of several poems were published in the Sunday Age 12 February 2012 print edition with the winning poem and two others published in full. The three poems published in full in the print edition are separately indexed. -
Love Virtually : Pen a Valentine's Day Poem and Be Published 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 29 January 2012; (p. 15) John Elder launches the 2012 Sunday Age Love Poem Competition. The column closes with one of Elder's poems; this poem is indexed separately. -
Melbourne Shows It's Not Afraid of Romance 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 13 February 2011; (p. 7)
