1. "Actor" has been Long Listed in the Fish Publishling International Poetry Competition, 2022
2. 'The Whispering Hours' has been Commended in the MPU International Poetry Competitions, 2020
3. "Priest" was Runner-Up in the PAVE/Woorilla Poetry Prize 2020.
4. 'Social Swimmer' was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, UK, 2020.
5.' Life with Mr. Parkinson' was shortlisted in the ACU Poetry Prize and has been published in 'Generosity, 2020 ACU Prize for Poetry, 2020.
6. 'Lost City' has won the 2020 W.B.Yeats Poetry Prize .
7. 'Blind Side' has been shortlisted in the 2020 Fish Publishing International Petry Competition.
8.'The Blue Trailer' was shortlisted for the 2019 ACU Prize for Poetry
9. 'Lost City', Highly Commended, PAVE/Woorilla Poetry Prize, 2019
10. 'Seascape'. Long Listed, Fish Publishing International Poetry Competition, Dublin 2019.
11. 'The Hours Alone' Won the MPU International Poetry Competition's Martin Downey Urban Realism Prize, 2018
12. 'When We Were Alive' shortlisted, Martha Richardson Memorial Poetry Prize, 2018
13. 'Bed Time' Long Listed, Fish Publishing International Poetry Competition, Dublin, 2018
14. 'When We Were Alive' Commended Woorila Poetry Competition, 2018
15. 'The Cocktail Hour', shortlisted, Bridport Prize (UK), 2017.
16 'Guest', Second Prize, MPU International Poetry Competition, 2016.
17. 'The 7 Basic Plots' and 'Long Gone Is The Man', Commended, PAVE/Woorilla Poetry Competition, 2016.
18. 'When Innocence Disappeared', Highly Commended, FAW John Shaw Neilson Poetry Award, 2015.
19 'Sleeping Beauty', Commended, Castlemaine Poetry Competition, 2015
20.'Scenes From A Gay Life', Shortlisted, Fish Publishing International Poetry Competition, Dublin, 2014
21. 'Forgotten Love', 'How It Is Called', Commended, W B Yates Poetry Prize, 2013.
22. 'Grandfather's Collars', Longlisted, Fish Publishing International Poetry Competition, Dublin 2013.
23. 'Five Artifacts Found In The Outback', Commended, FAW Mornington Peninsula Poetry Prize, 2013.
24. 'Horse', Highly Commended, 'The Story Of A Life', Won both Mount Alexander Shire Residents Prize and Castlemaine Poetry Competition, 2012.
25. 'Incarnation', Highly Commended, Castlemaine Poetry Competition, and winner of the Mount Alexander Shire Residents Prize, 2011.
Reviews
Comments on 'An Elegant Sufficiency':
'I'm drawn to the attractive scope, humanity and acuty of Wallis's vision. His poems reflect wide travel in fact and in imagination. (Poems) give point to the depth, integrity and authority of the collection'.
Michael Sharkey.2015
'Rob Wallis's poetry will immediately charm you with it's sure-footed and literate wit. But this is just a ruse - it's real agenda, barely hidden, is to haunt you with its perceptive observations and acute tenderness'.
Andy Jackson. 2015
Comments on 'Man In A Glass Suit'
'The delight and strength of these poems lie in the unique quality of the voice... the depth of sorrow and the height of hilarity are shaped and presented, with breathtaking precision...'
Carmel Bird, 2011.
'Some of these poems will grab at your heart, others will fuel your angst but all will remind you of the humanity we share and the fun there is to be had with words'.
E.A.Gleeson, 2011.
Judges Report on "Centres Of Silence':
' A political poem, it did not preach, but each of it's short lines, sometimes one word lines, cut like razor wire'.
Garth Madsen, FAW John Shaw Neilson Poetry Award, 2006.
A W A R D S
R O B W A L L I S P O E T R Y
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They turn you into a vampire,
their hatred a stake, the brutal act,
driven into you to teach you that.
From 'Queer 2',
(An Elegant Sufficiency).
