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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] |
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Victorian Premier's Prize For Poetry
The Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry, formerly known as the C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry, is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award. As of 2011 it has an enumeration of 25,000. The winner of this category prize vies with 4 other category winners for overall Victorian Prize for Literature valued at an additional 100,000. The prize was formerly known as the C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry from inception until 2010, when the awards were re-established under the stewardship of the Wheeler Centre and restarted with new prize amounts and a new name. It was named after the early twentieth century vernacular poet C. J. Dennis. Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry Blue ribbon () = winner. 2011 * Cate Kennedy, ''The Taste of River Water'' ** Claire Potter, ''Swallow'' ** Libby Hart, ''This Floating World'' 2012 * John Kinsella, ''Armour'' **John Mateer, ''Southern Barbarians'' ** Michelle Cahill, ''Vishvarupa'' 2013 Presented in January 2014 (see 2014 entry) f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 20 — Maya Angelou reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton. * March 31–April 3 — ''Writing from the New Coast: First Festival of Poetry'' held at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Many influential younger poets attend the conference. The final, two-volume issue of '' o•blék'' magazine this year will contain writing presented at the conference. * December 8 — Start of the University of Buffalo POETICS listserv, informally and variously known as UBPOETICS or the POETICS list, one of the oldest and most widely known mailing lists devoted to the discussion of contemporary North American poetry and poetics. In the early days of the list, membership, list discussions and even the existence of the list itself were kept private, and members were required not to discuss the conte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Allen Ginsberg crowned "Majelis King" in Prague on May Day. * Jason Shinder, an American poet, expands a New York City Y.M.C.A. writing education program nationwide, thereby founding the Y.M.C.A. National Writer's Voice program, one of the country's largest networks of literary-arts centers, with 24 locations by 2008. Writers who teach in the program include poets Adrienne Rich and Galway Kinnell, novelists Michael Cunningham and E. L. Doctorow, and playwright Wendy Wasserstein. Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Australia * Jennifer Maiden: ** ''Bastille Day'', NLA ** ''Selected Poems of Jennifer Maiden'', Penguin ** ''The Winter Baby'', Angus & Robertson * Les Murray, ''Dog Fox Field'' Sydney: Angus & Roberts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * The first annual ''The Best American Poetry'' volume is published this year. * During a poetry reading in which popular Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky takes written questions from the audience, he reads out two responses: "All of you are Jews or sold out to Jews", one reads. Another only says, "We will kill you". In ''The Ditch: A Spiritual Trial'', published in 1986, Voznesensky had written poetry and prose about a 1941 German massacre of 12,000 Russians in the Crimea, and the looting of their mass graves in the 1980s by Soviet citizens that was tolerated, he said, by officials because the victims were primarily Jews. Voznesensky reads the notes out loud and challenges the writers to identify themselves. None does. Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * American poet Jane Greer launches ''Plains Poetry Journal'', an advance guard of the New Formalism movement. * Final issue of ''L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E'' magazine published in the United States. * First issue of '' Conjunctions'' literary journal published in the United States. * This year, "the word ' Martianism' comes into use, through the verse of Craig Raine and his associates, presenting a vision of life on Earth as seen by a visiting Martian," the ''1982 Britannica Book of the Year'' reports (p. 504). Some note that "Martianism" is an anagram for one of Raine's associates, Martin Amis. Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Australia * R. Hall, editor, ''Collins Book of Australian Poetry'', anthologyPreminge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * ''The Kenyon Review'' is restarted by Kenyon College in the United States 10 years after the original publication was closed. * ''Jahrbuch der Lyrik'' ("Poetry Yearbook"), an annual poetry anthology, is launched in Germany, nine years before the similar series ''The Best American Poetry'' is begun. Each year's edition, containing 100 poems, is published in the spring by Beck, and is edited by Christoph Buchwald along with a guest editor. * '' Poetry Canada Review'' founded by Clifton Whiten in order to publish and review poetry from across Canada; the publication folds in 1994. Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Australia * Robert Adamson ''Where I Come From'' * Robert Gray, ''Grass script'' * Jennifer Maiden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Bloodaxe Books is established by Neil Astley in Newcastle upon Tyne, England * ''L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E'' magazine, edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein, is first published in the United States * '' Stevie'', a film based on a play about the poet Stevie Smith is released Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Canada * Margaret Avison, ''Sunblue''Roberts, Neil (ed.)''A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry'' Part III, Chapter 3, "Canadian Poetry", by Cynthia Messenger, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, , retrieved January 3, 2009 * Earle Birney, ''Fall by Fury & Other Makings''. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. * Dionne Brand, ''Fore Day Morning: Poems'' * William Wilfred Campbell, ''Vapour and Blue: Souster select ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January – James Dickey, composes a poem he reads at new United States President Jimmy Carter’s inaugural gala (although not at the inauguration itself). * July 11 – The English magazine '' Gay News'' is found guilty of blasphemous libel for publishing a homoerotic poem ''The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name'' by James Kirkup in a case ('' Whitehouse v. Lemon'') brought by Mary Whitehouse's National Viewers and Listeners Association at the Old Bailey in London. * Poet Sarah Kirsch leaves her native East Germany for the West. * In Israeli the literary journal ''Keshet'' goes defunct, while ''Itton'' and ''Proza'' are founded. Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Australia * Robert Adamson ''Cros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1975 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Following the fall of the Greek military junta in 1974, poets, authors and intellectuals who had fled after the coup of 1967 return, and this year many begin publishing in that country. * Radical Australian poet Dorothy Hewett publishes her collection ''Rapunzel in Suburbia'', triggering a successful libel action by her lawyer ex-husband Lloyd Davies. * Brick Books, a small literary press, is founded in London, Ontario, by Stan Dragland and Don McKay to publish work by Canadian poets, initially as a publisher of chapbooks. Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Canada * Earle Birney, ''The collected poems of Earle Birney''. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. * Don Domanski, ''The Cape Breton Book of the Dead'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1974 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * April – The dictatorship in Portugal falls; in the six months prior, with increasing repression and a discouraging atmosphere, little new work has been published; yet later in the year, not much new poetry is published either as "writers who had based their style on censor-proof allusiveness and their themes on protest would now have to do some retooling". * July 23 – The dictatorial Greek junta falls; start of the '' Metapolitefsi'': exiled poets, authors and intellectuals return to the country to publish there. * October 4 – While Ann Sexton is having lunch with her friend, fellow poet and collaborator Maxine Kumin to review Sexton's most recent book, ''The Awful Rowing Toward God'', without a note or any warning, Sexton goes into her garage, starts the ignition of her car and dies of carbon monoxide poisoning. * The Jack Kerouac School of D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards
The Australian Prime Minister's Literary Awards (PMLA) were announced at the end of 2007 by the incoming First Rudd ministry following the 2007 election. They are administered by the Minister for the Arts.Call for entries (22 February 2008) The awards were designed as "a new initiative celebrating the contribution of to the nation's cultural and intellectual life." The awards are held annually and initially provided a tax-free prize of A$100,000 in each category, making it Australia's richest literary award in total. In 2011, the prize money was split i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
