Lake Macquarie History

Roland Robinson Literary Award 2002

In 2002 the prize was awarded for poetry

photo: roland robinson cover art 2002

First Prize

Jan Iwaszkiewicz - Letter from Lone Pine

Second Prize

Norman Talbot - Watagan

Third Prize

Jan Dean - The Dream Paster Muses

Commendation Prizes

Patrick Cullen - The Day the Planes Came Down

Jean Talbot - Student

V. S.(Veronica) Zito - After Drowning

Commendation Certificates

Mary Jane Dalton - The Slow Gift of a Body

Timothy J. Dunn - Warm Days

Danny Gentile – Retreat

Zeny Giles - Foreboding

Jan Iwaszkiewicz - The Taste of a Peach is Heavy on our Tongues - Flying Foxes Get Religion

Colin Maybury - Lone Parent 1980

Julie Simpson – Forests

Norman Talbot - The Entry of the Birds into the Ark

Malle Timmerman - Mathematician’s Love Letter (or’Math Love’)

Young Poet's Prize

Briana Edwards - 50’s Bride

Young Poet's Commendation Prizes

Jennifer Hancock - Secrets

Tony Robert Owen - Angels on the Road…

Young Poet's Commendation Certificates

Emma Gibson - The Pin Cushion

Ellie Hunt - Daddy Please Come Home

Mitchell Sneddon - Thirst

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