Purple Rain and Yackandandah:The winners of the Herald’s jacaranda poetry contest
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Purple Rain and Yackandandah:The winners of the Herald’s jacaranda poetry contest

Nearly 300 people entered the Herald purple prize for poetry,sending odes of love or hate about the invasive species that has turned the city’s horizon into a flowering haze.

  • byJulie Power

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