Fred. Wm Simpson Prize for English Verse [F1975]

1. The Fred. Wm Simpson Prize for English Verse consists of the annual income from £125 presented by Dr Frederick William Simpson in 1945 for a prize in English verse to be named after his father, the late Frederick William Simpson, Government Printer and Controller of Printing from 1905 to 1942.

2. The prize is awarded by the Board of Examiners of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, on the recommendation of the Professors of English, Communication and Cultural Studies and the Chair of the English, Communications and Cultural Studies discipline group, to an undergraduate of this University for a poem not exceeding 100 lines in length.

3. A student may not submit more than one poem in any one year.

4. If in any year two or more poems are considered by the examiners to be of equal merit, the prize is awarded to the younger or youngest of the candidates.