1980 Rhysling Anthology and Award

Anthology Information

SFPA Secretary and Factotum: Suzette Haden Elgin

Cover Image: Karen G. Jollie

Interior Graphics: Robert Frazier, Karen G. Jollie & M.M. Roessner-Herman

Publisher: Science Fiction Poetry Association (published in Star*Line, Vol. 3 Issue 5, Sept./Oct. 1980)

Award Winners

Short Poem Category

First Place (tie): Peter Payack • The Migration of Darkness • Asimov's Science Fiction, Aug. 1979

First Place (tie): Robert Frazier • Encased in the Amber of Eternity • The Future at War, Vol. 1, 1979

Long Poem Category

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

All Nominated Poems

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

Poems Not in 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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