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Harri Jones Memorial Prize For Poetry
The Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry is an annual prize awarded by the University of Newcastle, Australia, to “an Australian poet, not yet 36 years of age, whose work in the field of poetry is judged to be outstanding”. The Prize is named for T. Harri Jones a former lecturer at the university. Winners * 2021: Josie/Jocelyn Deane * 2020: Peter Ramm * 2019: Caitlin Maling * 2018: Chloe Wilson * 2017: Joan Fleming * 2016: Katie Mills * 2010: * 2009: Jacqueline Krynda * 2008: * 2007: Amanda Ireland * 2006: * 2005: Andrew Slattery * 2004: Katie Lawrence * 2003: Julian Polain * 2002: Michelle A. Taylor, ''Angel of Barbican High'' (UQP) * 2001: * 2000: * 1999: * 1998: B. R. Dionysius * 1997: Michael Farrell * 1996: Anthony Lawrence * 1993: Andy Kissane, ''Facing the Moon'' (Five Islands) * 1988: Sudesh Mishra, "Rahu" * 1987: Yvette Christiansë * 1984: Stephen Edgar * 1976: Jennifer Maiden, ''The Problem of Evil'' (Prism) * 1975: Robert Harris * 1973: Rhyll McMaster, ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Newcastle, Australia
The University of Newcastle (UON), informally known as Newcastle University, is a public university in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1965, it has a primary campus in the Newcastle suburb of Callaghan. The university also operates campuses in Ourimbah, Port Macquarie, Singapore, Newcastle CBD and Sydney CBD. Historically, the University of Newcastle Medical School has implemented the problem-based learning system for its undergraduate Bachelor of Medicine program – a system later mandated for use by the Australian Medical Council throughout Australia. It pioneered use of the Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission Test (UMAT) in the early 1990s. UMAT has since been accepted widely by different medical schools across Australia as an additional selection criteria. The University of Newcastle is a member of the Australian Technology Network, Universities Australia and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. History Esta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Fleming (poet)
Megan Joan Fleming (born 1984), is an Australian/New Zealand poet, non-fiction writer and academic. Biography Fleming grew up in Sydney, Australia, until employment opportunities spurred the family to relocate first to Bermuda, then Golden, Colorado, before finally settling in Auckland, New Zealand. She studied creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University, where she won the Biggs Poetry Prize in 2007. She graduated from the University of Otago with a Master of Arts with a thesis on the iterative poetry of Anne Carson. She holds a PhD in ethnopoetics from Monash University, Melbourne, a city in which she now lives. Fleming's grandparents were stationed as Baptist missionaries in the town of Yuendumu, in the Northern Territory of Australia. As a result, she has an ongoing interest in Warlpiri culture, with much of her poetry and non-fiction work focusing on themes of cultural misunderstandings, the limits of language, and the con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle A
Michelle may refer to: People *Michelle (name), a given name and surname, the feminine form of Michael * Michelle Courtens, Dutch singer, performing as "Michelle" * Michelle (German singer) * Michelle (Scottish singer) (born 1980), Scottish winner of ''Pop Idol'' in 2003 * Michel'le, American singer Arts, entertainment, and media Music * ''Michelle'' (album), a 1966 album by saxophonist Bud Shank * "Michelle" (song), a 1965 song by The Beatles * "Michelle", a song by Lynyrd Skynyrd * "My Michelle", a 1987 song by Guns N' Roses * "A World Without You (Michelle)", a 1988 song by Bad Boys Blue Film * Michelle (Marvel Cinematic Universe), a fictional character of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Television * "Michelle" (''Skins'' series 1), a 2007 episode of the British teen drama ''Skins'' Science * 1376 Michelle, an asteroid * Hurricane Michelle, powerful 2001 Atlantic tropical storm See also *Michael (other) *Michel (other) *Michele, a given name and sur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Lawrence (poet)
Anthony Lawrence (born 1957) is a contemporary Australian poet and novelist. Lawrence has received a number of Australia Council for the Arts Literature Board Grants, including a Fellowship, and has won many awards for his poetry, including the inaugural Judith Wright Calanthe Award, the Gwen Harwood Memorial Prize, and the Newcastle Poetry Prize (three times). His most recent collection is ''Headwaters'' ( Pitt Street Poetry) which was awarded the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry in 2017. Published works Poetry *''101 Poems,'' Pitt Street Poetry, 2018 *''Headwaters'', Pitt Street Poetry, 2016 * ''Signal Flare'', Puncher & Wattman,, 2013 * ''The Welfare of My Enemy'', Puncher & Wattman. * ''Bark'', University of Queensland Press, 2008. * ''Words & Music'', Picaro Press, 2008. * ''Magnetic Field'', Picaro Press, 2008. * ''Strategies for Confronting Fear : New and Selected Poems'' Lancashire, England : Arc Publications, 2006. * ''The Sleep of a Learning Man'' Giramon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Kissane
Andy Kissane, born 13 September 1959, is a Melbourne-born, Sydney-based writer. He has written a number of poetry collections as well as short stories, novels and non-fiction. Personal life Kissane was born in Melbourne, but moved to Sydney in 1987, where he lives in Sydney with his partner and daughter. He has worked as a high school teacher, writer-in-residence and university lecturer. He has also produced audiobooks. Kissane is a supporter of the Brisbane Lions and coaches basketball. He enjoys gardening, especially bushland regeneration. His older brother is the Australian psychiatrist Professor David Kissane. Awards and Accolades Kissane has won several awards for his writing, including the Sydney Writers' Festival Poetry Olympics, the Publisher's Cup Cricket Poetry Award, the Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry and the BTG-Blue Dog Poetry reviewing prize. In 2011, his book ''Out to Lunch'' was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, one of New South W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sudesh Mishra
Sudesh Mishra is a contemporary Fijian- Australian poet and academic. Career Sudesh Mishra was born in Fiji into an Indo-Fijian family. Coming to Australia to study he studied at The University of Wollongong and went on to complete a Ph.D. in English literature at Flinders University. He has published several volumes of poetry, the first of which, ''Rahu'' (means Rahu, the sun eclipse caused by the Asura in the Hindu mythology), received the Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry in 1988. His writing commonly treats events in his home country, such as the 1987 coup, from an ironic perspective. In 2003 he received an Asialink Literature Residency at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is currently Head of the School of Pacific Arts, Communication and Education (SPACE) at University of the South Pacific. He was an Associate Professor in Creative Writing at Deakin University in Australia and has taught literature at Stirling University in Scotland and University of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvette Christiansë
Yvette Christiansë (born 12 December 1954) is a South African-born poet and novelist."Yvette Christiansë Biography" at BookBrowse, 15 August 2013. She currently lives in and teaches at .Yvette Christianse page at Penguin Random House. She has also taught at F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Edgar
Stephen Edgar (born 1951) is an Australian poet, editor and indexer. Background and education Edgar was born in Sydney, where he attended Sydney Technical High School. After time spent living in London, he later returned to Australia, going on to study classics and librarianship at the University of Tasmania. Poetry His first published poetry appeared in 1979 in the Tasmanian literary quarterly ''Island'' (originally ''The Tasmanian Review''). From 1986 to the present he has been subeditor of ''Island'' and was poetry editor between 1989 and 1994. He is the author of seven books of poetry. As well as extensive publication of his verse in print media, Stephen Edgar has published poetry in online poetry magazines such as ''Snorkel'', ''The Poetry Foundation'', ''The Chimaera'', and ''The Flea''. As poet Kevin Hart observed, Edgar "is distinctive for a firm commitment to closed forms and for showing considerable panache in handling them". Other critical material on Stephen E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Maiden
Jennifer Maiden (born 1949) is an Australian poet. She was born in Penrith, New South Wales, and has had 36 books published: 28 poetry collections, 6 novels and 2 nonfiction works. Her current publishers are Quemar Press in Australia and Bloodaxe Books in the UK. She began writing professionally in the late 1960s and has been active in Sydney's literary scene since then. She took a BA at Macquarie University in the early 1970s. She has one daughter, Katharine Margot Toohey. Aside from writing, Jennifer Maiden runs writers workshops with a variety of literary, community and educational organizations and has devised and co-written (with Margaret Cunningham Bennett, who was then the director of the New South Wales Torture and Trauma Rehabilitation Service) a manual of questions to facilitate writing by Torture and Trauma Victims. Later, Maiden and Bennett used the questions they had created as a basis for a clinically planned workbook. Career and works Among Jennifer Maiden's m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Harris (poet)
Robert Harris (1951 – 24 March 1993) was an Australian poet, who also wrote as Orson Rattray Der. Life Robert Harris was born in Melbourne. He was educated in Doveton High School. He enlisted in the Australian Navy in 1968 during the Vietnam War. During the 1970s he spent time in a commune. He was married but separated from his wife in the 1980s with no children. He lived in Sydney in the later part of his life. Harris died in Summer Hill, New South Wales on 24 March 1993 of a heart attack. His obituary in ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' stated that ''"he followed his own poetic path with little regard for the niceties of a literary career."'' A friend wrote ''"Robert Harris had only known two things in his short life: poverty and poetry. He knew poetry would get him, and it did."'' Harris was involved in literary magazines as an author and as an editor. He worked as an editor for New Poetry magazine and for Overland magazine. Five books of his poetry were published. His manu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhyll McMaster
Rhyll McMaster (born 1947 in Brisbane) is a contemporary Australian poet and novelist. She has worked as a secretary, a nurse and a sheep farmer. She now lives in Sydney and has written full-time since 2000. She is a recipient of the Barbara Jefferis Award. Biography Her poems have been appearing in Australian publications since she was sixteen. Her first book of poetry, ''The Brineshrimp'', 1972, won the Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry; ''Washing the Money'', 1986, was awarded the C.J. Dennis Prize for Poetry and the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry. ''On My Empty Feet'' was published in 1993 and poems from that selection were broadcast as a play for radio by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1996. ''Flying the Coop, New and Selected Poems, 1972-1994'', was awarded the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1994. ''Chemical Bodies, A Diary of Probable Events, 1994-1997'' was published in 1997. ''Evolutionary History of Edward Kelly in Primary Colours'', a response to nine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
