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The 1980 Rhysling Anthology and Awards

The 1980 Rhysling Awards

Short Poem Category

Winners (tie)

Encased in the Amber of Eternity by Robert Frazier

The Migration of Darkness by Peter Payack

Long Poem Category

Winner

The Sonic Flowerfall of Primes by Andrew Joron

The Rhysling Awards 1980

The 1980 Rhysling Anthology             Graphics: Robert Frazier, Karen G. Jollie & M.M. Roessner-Herman
            Cover Art: Karen G. Jollie
            SFPA Secretary and Factotum: Suzette Haden Elgin
            Published in Star*Line, Vol. 3 Issue 5, Sept./Oct. 1980

Rhysling Award nominees published in 1979

      Awards Key
            First Place winner
            More than one poem with the same color code within a category indicates a tie.

SHORT POEMS

Neal Wilgus • Metamorphosis • Braincandy, July 1979

Peter Payack • The Migration of Darkness • Asimov's Science Fiction, Aug. 1979

Bruce Boston • If Gravity Was Like Weather • Star*Line, June 1979

Duane Ackerson • The Stars, Crucified on Thier Limbs of Light • Star*Line, 1979

Dave Calder • we came in peace for all mankind • Spaced, Toulouse Press, 1979

Ursula K. Le Guin • Siva and Kama • Kenyon Review, 1979

Robert Frazier • Encased in the Amber of Eternity • The Future at War, Vol. 1, 1979

Duane Ackerson • After • Uranus, Issue 1, 1979

LONG POEMS

David Calder • spaceman • Spaced, Toulouse Press, 1979

Andrew Joron • The Sonic Flowerfall of Primes • New Worlds, Issue 216, 1979

Nominees not included in the anthology:
Steve Eng • Questionnaire • Space & Time, July 1979
John Hollander • Blue Wine • Kenyon Review, 1979
H. Warner Munn • How Farmer Shore Came to Valhalla • The Book of Munn, 1979

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