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2008 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * June 18 – Release in the United Kingdom of a new film, ''The Edge of Love'', concerning Dylan Thomas' relationship with two women, starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy and Matthew Rhys (as Thomas)."Poetry in the News 2008" web page at the Poetry Society website, retrieved November 30, 2008 * September – A United Kingdom examination board, Assessment and Qualifications Alliance, asks schools to withdraw copies of its anthology which contain the poem, ''Education for Leisure'' by after some teachers complained about the poem's referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Poetry
Irish poetry is poetry written by poets from Ireland. It is mainly written in Irish language, Irish and English, though some is in Scottish Gaelic literature, Scottish Gaelic and some in Hiberno-Latin. The complex interplay between the two main traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English and Scottish Gaelic literature, Scottish Gaelic, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to categorise. The earliest surviving poems in Irish date back to the 6th century, while the first known poems in English from Ireland date to the 14th century. Although there has always been some cross-fertilization between the two language traditions, an English-language poetry that had absorbed themes and models from Irish did not finally emerge until the 19th century. This culminated in the work of the poets of the Irish Literary Revival in the late 19th and early 20th century. Towards the last quarter of the 20th century, modern Irish poetry tended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitry Vodennikov
Dmitry Vodennikov (russian: Дми́трий Бори́сович Воде́нников) (born 22 December 1968) is a Russian poet and essayist. In 2002, he was named as one of the ten best living Russian poets in a poll of 110 leading Russian poets and critics, being one of just two poets under 35 in the top ten. Some critics name him as "perhaps the best known poet of his generation", while others claim that he recites his poems better than he writes them. Herzen State Pedagogical University hold a workshop, "Dmitry Vodennikov as the new Blok, Mayakovsky and Pugacheva". He is considered as the leader of New Sincerity in Russian literature. Vodennikov graduated from Moscow State Pedagogical Institute, philology department and for four years worked as a school teacher. He writes essays and columns for several Russian magazines and hosts two radio shows dedicated to poetry: "Free Entry" on Radio Kultura and "Poetic Minimum" on Radio Rossii Radio Rossii (russian: Радио ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Unaipon Award
The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were an Australian suite of literary awards inaugurated in 1999 and disestablished in 2012. It was one of the most generous suites of literary awards within Australia, with $225,000 in prize money across 14 categories with prizes up to $25,000 in some categories. The awards upon their establishment incorporated a number of pre-existing awards including the Steele Rudd Award for the best Australian collection of new short fiction and the David Unaipon Award for unpublished Indigenous writing. The awards were established by Peter Beattie, the then Premier of Queensland in 1999 and abolished by Premier Campbell Newman, shortly after winning the 2012 Queensland state election. In response, the Queensland writing community established the Queensland Literary Awards to ensure the Awards continued in some form. The judging panels remained largely the same, and University of Queensland Press committed to continue to publish the winners of the Eme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvette Holt
Yvette Henry Holt (born 1971) is an Aboriginal Australian poet, essayist, academic, researcher and comedian, of the Bidjara, Yiman and Wakaman nations of Queensland. She came to prominence with her first published collection of poetry, ''Anonymous Premonition'', in 2008. She lives in the desert in Central Australia. Early years and education Yvette Holt was born in 1971 in Inala, Brisbane. Her family, who are of the Bidjara and Wakaman peoples of central and far north Queensland (mainly the Atherton Tablelands), have lived in Inala for many decades. Holt also has Yiman ancestry. Aged 18, Holt started working for Australia Post (then part of the Australian Public Service). After ten years of work, she travelled to the US, where she conceived her daughter, Cheyenne. After enrolling in 2001, Holt graduated from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), with a degree in Adult Education and Community Management (Business) in 2004. Poetry In 2008, Holt's first collection of poet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Elder Award
The Anne Elder Trust Fund Award for poetry was administered by the Victorian branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers from its establishment in 1976 until 2017. From 2018 the award has been administered by Australian Poetry. It is awarded annually, as the Anne Elder Award, for the best first book of poetry published in Australia. It was established in 1976 and currently has a prize of A$1000 for the winner.2005 National Literary Awards Results p. 2. The award is named after Australian poet Anne Elder (1918–1976). Award winners Prior to 2004 * 1977: |
Judith Wright Prize
The Judith Wright Award, also known as the Judith Wright Prize, was awarded annually as part of the ACT Poetry Award between 2005 and 2011 for a book of poems published the previous year in book form by an Australian author. It was awarded for a published collection by an Australian poet. History The ACT Poetry Award for unpublished poets was awarded in 2003 and 2004 by the ACT Government. From 2005 to 2011, there were four prizes awarded: the Rosemary Dobson Award, the David Campbell Award, the Judith Wright Award and the Alec Bolton Award. In 2012, the Government reviewed the ACT Poetry Prize, and developed three new initiatives: the ACT Poetry Prize for a single poem, a Centenary Poetry in ACTION program and Youth Poetry Slams, to begin in ACT schools in 2013. The last ACT poetry prize appears to have been awarded in 2013. Winners 2010 *Winner Peter Boyle, ''Apocrypha'' ( Vagabond Press) *Highly Commended Jordie Albiston, ''the sonnet according to "m"'' ( John Leonard Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Queensland Press
Established in 1948, University of Queensland Press (UQP) is an Australian publishing house. Founded as a traditional university press, UQP has since branched into publishing books for general readers in the areas of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, Indigenous writing and youth literature. From 2010, UQP has been releasing selected out-of-print titles in digital formats, in addition to the digital and print publishing of new books. In 2021, UQP was awarded Small Publisher of the Year by the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs). History UQP began as a publisher of scholarly works in 1948, and made its transition into trade publishing in the mid-1960s through its Paperback Poets series. The Paperback Poets series came into being when Australian novelist and poet David Malouf approached publisher Frank Thompson and suggested that poetry ought to be made available widely and inexpensively. Thompson agreed, and UQP's poetry list began with Malouf's first book, ''Bicycle and Other P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Holland-Batt
Sarah Holland-Batt is a contemporary Australian poet, critic, and academic. Early life and education Born in Southport, Queensland, Sarah Holland-Batt grew up in Australia and Denver, Colorado. She was educated at the University of Queensland, where she received First Class Honours in Literary Studies, an MPhil and PhD, and at New York University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar and attained an M.F.A. Career Holland-Batt is the author of three award-winning volumes of poetry, ''Aria'', ''The Hazards'' and ''The Jaguar'', and a book of essays on contemporary poetry, ''Fishing for Lightning: The Spark of Poetry''. She is also the editor of two anthologies of contemporary Australian poetry, Black Inc's ''The Best Australian Poems 2016'' and ''The Best Australian Poems 2017''. ''Aria'', Holland-Batt's first book, received the 2007 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, and was subsequently published by the University of Queensland Press in 2008. ''Aria'' subsequently won the Anne Elder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Hodgson
Elizabeth Hodgson (1814 – 26 December 1877) was a botanist and geologist whose research was focused on the Furness area of Lancashire (now present-day Cumbria). Life and career Hodgson was born in 1814. Her father was James Hodgson, a captain of the Royal Navy. She lived in Ulverston, Lancashire and studied the geology of the Lake District. Her first paper about the area was published in 1863 in the ''Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society'', and it was written about fossils found in iron ore mines near Ulverston. In the seven years after its publication, she wrote other papers on the geology, paleontology and glaciology of the Lake District, most of which were published in the ''Geological Magazine''. Hodgson also contributed papers to the ''Geologist'', and was a member of the Botanical Exchange Club. After her health declined and she was unable to continue making scientific collections, Hodgson died on 26 December 1877, at 64 years old. Selected works *"Flora of Lak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Slessor Prize For Poetry
The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form.New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Web page accessed 5 November 2006 It is named after (1901–1971). The prize currently comes with a A$30,000 cash award. Winners and shortlists
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David Brooks (author)
David Gordon Brooks (born 12 January 1953 in Canberra) is an Australian poet, novelist, short-fiction writer and essayist. He is the author of four published novels, four collections of short stories and five collections of poetry, and his work has won or been shortlisted for major prizes. Brooks is a highly intellectual writer, and his fiction has drawn frequent comparison with the writers Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges. He studied poetics at the Australian National University (ANU) and in Toronto, Canada, from 1971 to 1986. He has been a hand-press printer of high-quality works, and was an editor of the Australian poetry journals ''New Poetry'', ''Helix'' and ''Southerly''. He taught literature at several Australian universities, followed by the Creative Writing program at Sydney University from 1999 to 2013. He is a long-term vegan,condensed version/ref> and writes extensively for and about animals and animal suffering. Early life Brooks was born in 1953 to H. Gord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Brennan (poet)
Michael Brennan (born 1973) is an Australian poet. He is editor of the Australian sector of Poetry International Web and is the co-founder of publisher Vagabond Press. Early life and education Brennan was born in Sydney in 1973. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Sydney in 2001, where he wrote his thesis: ''The Impossible Gaze: Robert Adamson and the work of negativity''. During his time at the University of Sydney, Brennan co-edited the university's undergraduate literary journal, ''Hermes'', an annual magazine which publishes the works of students at the university. He also began writing a journal for a class taught by Elizabeth Webby who was the editor of the Australian literary magazine '' Southerly'' from 1988 to 1999. Webby asked Brennan to work on ''Southerly'', an opportunity which Brennan has referred to, saying “That was my real start”. While Brennan was living in Paris in 1998, he was inspired by Blanchot's Chapbooks, which had been published by Fata Mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
