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The 1981 Rhysling Anthology and Awards




The 1981 Rhysling Awards


Short Poem Category

Winner

  • Meeting Place by Ken Duffin
  • Long Poem Category

    Winner

  • On Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch




  • The Rhysling Awards 1981


    The 1981 Rhysling Anthology             Cover Art: Karen G. Jollie
                Editor: Robert Frazier
                Published in Star*Line, Vol. 4 Issue 4, July/Aug. 1981


    Rhysling Award nominees published in 1980

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

    SHORT POEMS

  • Stephen Gresham • The Mooneyes of Dog Sunday • Amanita Brandy, Issue 1, 1980
  • Steve Rasnic Tem • The Landed Gentry • Space & Time, Issue 57, 1980
  • Steve Eng • Flaming Prose • Pandora, Issue 5, 1980
  • Janet Fox • untitled • Star*Line, Vo. 3 Issue 4, 1980
  • Ken Duffin • Meeting Place • Asimov's Science Fiction, Nov. 1980
  • Neil Wilgus • Endtime Rag • Menzia, Nov. 1980
  • Raymond DiZazzo • Cookers • Uranus, Issue 2, 1980
  • Frederico Lisci Espino, Jr. • Bionic Adam • International Portland Review, 1980
  • Roger Zelazny • I Used to Think in Lines That Were Irregular to the Right • When Pussywillows Last in the Catyard Bloomed, Nostrilla Press, 1980
  • Frederick Mayer • Dead • Eldritch Tales, Issue 7, 1980
  • Vicki Ann Heydron • The Sacrifice • Wyrd, Issue 8, 1980
  • Peter Dillingham • Holovision/20-20 • 20/20 Vision, 1980
  • F. Gwynplain MacIntyre • Improbable Bestiary: The Centaur • Asimov's Science Fiction, Nov. 1980


    LONG POEMS

  • Chad Walsh • The First Two Men (?) from Outer Space • Uranus, Issue 2, 1980
  • Tom Disch • On Science Fiction • Triquarterly, 1980
  • Gene Van Troyer • Gonna Laugh Dem Rollin' Bones • The Anthology of Speculative Poetry, 1980
  • Paul Edwin Zimmer • The Complaint of Agni • Wyrd, Issue 8, 1980
  • Steven E. McDonald • On Our Holidays • Star*Line, Vol. 3 Issue 2, 1980
  • Suzette Haden Elgin • Lines on Looking into the Los Angeles Times Book Review Week after Week • Star*Line, Vol. 3 Issue 4, 1980


    Nominees not included in the anthology:
    Ken Seamon • The Orbital • The Modularist Review, Issue 3, 1980
    Neal Wilgus • Balloon to the Center of the Earth • Nyctalops, Jan. 1980
    Delores Ele • Haunted Valley • Worlds Lost/The Forgotten, Issue 2, 1980






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