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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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New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, also known as the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, were first awarded in 1979. They are among the richest literary awards in Australia. Notable prizes include the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, and the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction. , the Awards are presented by the NSW Government and administered by the State Library of New South Wales in association with Create NSW, with support of Multicultural NSW and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Total prize money in 2019 was up to A$305,000, with eligibility limited to writers, translators and illustrators with Australian citizenship or permanent resident status. History The NSW Premier's Literary Awards were established in 1979 by the New South Wales Premier Neville Wran. Commenting on its purpose, Wran said: "We want the arts to take, and be seen to take, their proper place in our social priorities. If governments treat writers an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Gorton
Lisa Gorton (born 1972) is an Australian poet, novelist, literary editor and essayist. She is the author of three award-winning poetry collections: ''Press Release'', ''Hotel Hyperion'' '','' and ''Empirical''. Her novel ''The Life of Houses,'' received the NSW Premier's People's Choice Award for Fiction, and the Prime Minister's Award for Fiction (shared). Gorton is also the editor of Black Inc's anthology ''Best Australian Poems 2013''. Education Gorton was educated at the University of Melbourne and at Oxford University. At Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, Gorton completed an MPhil in Renaissance Literature and a DPhil on John Donne. She received the John Donne Society Award for Outstanding Publication in Donne Studies. Career In 1994 she was awarded the inaugural Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize. Having previously worked as poetry editor for the literary journal, Gorton was the Australian Book Review's Poet of the Month in October 2019. Gorton has contributed essays to the Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *January 14 – Egyptian poet Omar Hazek, who was released from prison in September 2015, is prevented from leaving Egypt to receive the 2016 Oxfam Novib/PEN Award for Freedom of Expression. *January 26 – Egyptian poet Fatima Naoot is sentenced to three years in prison, found guilty of "contempt of religion." Naoot goes to prison immediately and must appeal from there. *American poets Hawona Sullivan Janzen and Clarence White participate in public art project ''Rondo Family Reunion'' in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Anniversaries * January 25 – the 125th birthday of Osip Mandelstam. * March 5 – semicentenary of the death of Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (Requiem) * March 27 – 90th birthday of Frank O'Hara. (See July 25) * April 24 – centenary of the start of the Easter Rising in Dublin, which inspired W. B. Yeats’s poem " Easter, 1916". * May 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antigone Kefala
Antigone Kefala (28 May 1931 – 3 December 2022) was an Australian poet and prose-writer of Greek-Romanian heritage. She was a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council and is acknowledged as being an important voice in capturing the migrant experience in contemporary Australia. In 2017, Kefala was awarded the State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection Judith Wright Calanthe Award at the Queensland Literary Awards for her collection of poems entitled ''Fragments''. Life Born in Brăila, Romania in 1931, Kefala and family moved to Greece and then New Zealand after World War II. Having studied French Literature at Victoria University and obtained a MA, she relocated to Sydney, Australia in 1960. There she taught English as a second language and worked as a university and arts administrator. Her poetry and prose is written in both Greek and English, with ''Absence: New and Selected Poems'' reissued in a second edition in 1998. Her work, written in free verse, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Hetherington
Paul Hetherington (born 6 March 1958) is an Australian poet and academic, who also worked for 19 years at the National Library of Australia. He is Professor of Writing at the University of Canberra where he heads the university's International Poetry Studies Institute (IPSI) which he co-founded. He is an editor of the international journal ''Axon: Creative Explorations'' and co-founder of the International Prose Poetry Project. Biography Paul Hetherington's parents are Robert Hetherington (1923–2015) and Penelope Hetherington (née Loveday) (1928–). He grew up in Adelaide with his twin brother Mark and his younger sister Naomi (1961–) until his family moved to Perth in 1966 when his father accepted a job in the fledgling Politics Department of the University of Western Australia. His father later became a Western Australian member of parliament. His mother was an academic historian with particular interests in African History and Women's History, who worked at the Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *May 23 – English poet Tony Walsh reads his 2013 poem "This is the place" to the crowds gathered in Albert Square, Manchester for a public vigil following this week's Manchester Arena bombing. *June 23 – English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...-resident writer Ben Okri publishes his poemGrenfell Tower, June 2017 in the ''Financial Times'' following this month's Grenfell Tower fire in London. Anniversaries *March 1 – Centenary of the birth of the American poet Robert Lowell. Selection of works published in English Australia * Michael Farrell (poet), Michael Farrell, ''I Love Poetry'' * Alan Wearne, ''These Things Are Real'' * Fio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omar Sakr (Australian Writer)
Omar Sakr (born 22 November 1989) is a contemporary Arab-Australian poet, novelist and essayist. Career Sakr has been a published poet since 2014, with over 80 poems appearing in literary journals including Meanjin, Overland and other publications. His first book of poetry ''These Wild Houses'' was published in 2017 by Cordite Books. In 2020, he was the first Arab-Australian Muslim to be shortlisted for and then win the prestigious Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Prime Minister's Literary Award for poetry for his book ''The Lost Arabs''. The judging panel described ''The Lost Arabs'' as a collection of “vital, energy-driven poems” that “speak with a clear and fearless voice, a voice that is often passionate and sometimes angry, but always lucid and warmly human." His first novel “Son of Sin” was published by Affirm Press in 2022. Rafqa Touma in The Guardian described in as “laced with charm, candor and a vital sense of warmth”. Sakr's work has been translated in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Aitken
Adam Aitken is an Australian poet. Early life Australian writer Adam Aitken was born in London in 1960. He spent his early childhood with relatives in Thailand, and was educated at a convent in Malaysia, then a school in Perth Western Australia, before his family moved to Sydney, Australia in 1969. His father was born in Melbourne and as a young man worked as a copy-writer and advertising executive, then re-trained as a landscape architect. He was a respected ceramics critic and in the early 1970s was an activist in the Anti-Vietnam War Moratorium movement. His mother is Thai and worked in the Samuel Taylor Factory in Sydney, then as an interpreter. Career Aitken began writing in the mid-1970s and majored in English and Art Film History at the University of Sydney. He has also completed a Master's in linguistics and a Doctorate in Creative Arts from the Centre for New Writing, University of Technology, Sydney. His doctoral thesis was titled "Writing the hybrid: Asian imaginar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 In Poetry
Major poetry related events which took place worldwide during 2018 are outlined below under different sections. This includes poetry books released during the year in different languages, major literary awards, poetry festivals and events, besides anniversaries and deaths of renowned poets etc. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, India or France). Events * August 11 – Writer V. S. Naipaul, on his deathbed in London, is read Tennyson's poem "Crossing the Bar" by newspaper editor Geordie Greig. Anniversaries Selection of works published in English Australia * Jordie Albiston, ''Warlines'' * Judith Beveridge, ''Sun Music: New and Selected Poems'' * Ken Bolton, ''Starting at Basheer's'' * Sarah Day, ''Towards Light & Other Poems'' * Paul Hetherington, ''Moonlight on Oleander'' * John Mateer, ''João'' * Tim Metcalf, ''The Underwritten Plain'' * Tracy Ryan, ''The Water Bearer'' Canada * Gwen Benaway, ''Hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Christopher Keith Wallace-Crabbe (born 6 May 1934) is an Australian poet and emeritus professor in the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne. Life and career Wallace-Crabbe was born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond. His father was Kenneth Eyre Inverell Wallace-Crabbe, painter, printmaker, journalist and publisher, pilot in the RAF and ending World War II as Group Captain, and his mother Phyllis Vera May Cox Passmore was a pianist, and his brother Robin Wallace-Crabbe became an artist. He was educated at Scotch College, Yale University and the University of Melbourne, where for much of his life he has worked and is now a professor emeritus in the Australian Centre. He was Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University and at the University of Venice, Ca'Foscari. He is also an essayist, a critic of the visual arts and a notable public reader of his verse. He was the founding director of the Australian Centre and, more recently, chair of the peak artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Neilsen
Philip Max Neilsen is an Australian poet, fiction writer and editor. He teaches poetry at the University of Queensland and was previously professor of creative writing at the Queensland University of Technology. Biography Neilsen was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. His grandparents and great grandparents were emigrants from Norway, Scotland, England and Germany. He attended Brisbane Grammar School and the University of Queensland where he gained honours, masters and doctoral degrees in English and taught for nine years. He founded the creative writing program at the Queensland University of Technology in 1997, the first in Queensland. He has been a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. Previously, he has been Chair of the Queensland Writers Centre and Chair of PEN Australia North. He established thImago: New Writing Literary Magazinewith poeHelen Horton Neilsen is married to lawyer and writeMhairead MacLeod and was previously married to pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Farrell (poet)
Michael Farrell (born 1965) is a contemporary Australian poet. Biography Michael Farrell was born in Bombala, New South Wales in 1965. He presently lives in Melbourne, where he is the Australian editor of ''Slope'' magazine. Published works * ''living at the z'', 2000 * ''ode ode'', Salt Publishing, 2002. * ''a raiders guide'', Giramondo, 2008. * ''open sesame'', Giramondo, 2012. * ''Cocky's joy'', Giramondo, 2015. * ''I Love Poetry'', Giramondo, 2017. * ''Family Trees'', Giramondo, 2020. * ''Googlecholia'', Giramondo, 2022. Awards * Harri Jones Memorial Prize, 1999: winner * The Age Book of the Year Poetry Prize Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize, 2003, shortlisted for ''Ode Ode'' *Queensland Literary Awards, Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection, 2018, winner for ''I Love Poetry'' *NSW Premier's Literary Awards The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, also known as the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, were first awarded in 1979. They are among the richest l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |