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Peter Boyle (poet)
Peter Boyle (born 1951 in Melbourne, Australia), is an Australian poet and translator. He has published more than a dozen collections of poetry, including ''The Blue Cloud of Crying'' and ''Coming Home From the World''. Boyle has also published translations of Federico García Lorca, Luis Cernuda, Eugenio Montejo, César Vallejo, Pierre Reverdy, and others. Bibliography * ''Ideas of Travel'', Vagabond Press, 2022. * ''Notes Towards the Dreambook of Endings'', Vagabond Press, 2021. *''Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness'', Vagabond Press, 2019. *''Ghostspeaking'', Vagabond Press, 2016. * ''Towns in the Great Desert'', Puncher & Wattmann, 2013 * ''How Does a Man Who Is Dead Reinvent His Body? : The Belated Love Poems of Thean Morris Caelli'', Exeter, Devon (County), England : Shearsman Books, 2008. * ''The Transformation Boat'' 2008, River Road Press. * ''Reading Borges and Other Poems'' 2007, Picaro Press. * ''Museum of Space'', University of Queensland Press, 2004. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropolitan area known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of 31 local municipalities, although the name is also used specifically for the local municipality of City of Melbourne based around its central business area. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong and Macedon Ranges. It has a population over 5 million (19% of the population of Australia, as per 2021 census), mostly residing to the east side of the city centre, and its inhabitants are commonly referred to as "Melburnians". The area of Melbourne has been home to Aboriginal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide Festival Awards For Literature
The Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature comprise a group of biennially-granted literary awards established in 1986 by the Government of South Australia, announced during Adelaide Writers' Week, as part of the Adelaide Festival. The awards include national as well as state-based prizes, and offer three fellowships for South Australian writers. Several categories have been added to the original four. History and description The Awards were created by the South Australian government in 1986. They are currently administered by the State Library of South Australia and awarded during Writers' Week as part of the Adelaide Festival. The Premier's Award is the richest prize, worth , and awarded for the best overall published work which has already won an award in one of the other categories. Other national awards, worth each as of 2018, are the Fiction Award, Children's Literature Award, Young Adult's Fiction Award, John Bray Poetry Award, and the Non-Fiction Award. South Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Births
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's novel '' Journey Through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Poets
The poets listed below were either citizens or residents of Australia or published the bulk of their poetry whilst living there. A B C D E F G H I–J K L M N O P Q–R S T V W Y–Z See also *Poetry *List of poets * List of English language poets *Australian literature * Poets Union References {{lists of poets Poets Australian Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal A ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wesley Michel Wright Prize
The Wesley Michel Wright Prize is an Australian poetry prize named in honour of Wesley Michel Wright in recognition of his bequest to the University of Melbourne. It is awarded annually. History Wesley Michel Wright graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1951. In his will he left a bequest to the university. Wright died in 1963 and the award was subsequently inaugurated. The first known recipient was Leon Slade in 1962. John Tranter, Judy Johnson and Sarah Day have won twice. , the prize is valued at A$4,300. Entry conditions Entry is open to Australian citizens for a poem or poetry collection published in the previous twelve months. Poems to be from 50 to 500 lines long. Winners This list is drawn from the AustLit database: * 1982 Leon Slade * 1983 Alex Skovron * 1984 no award * 1985 ** John Scott – joint winners ** Frank Kellaway – joint winners * 1986 Philip Hodgins * 1987 Diane Fahey * 1988 Laurie Duggan * 1989 ** David Herkt – joint winner ** John T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NBC Turnbull Fox Phillips Poetry Prize
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network. The flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, its headquarters are located at Comcast Building in New York City. The company also has offices in Los Angeles at 10 Universal City Plaza and Chicago at the NBC Tower. NBC is the oldest of the traditional "Big Three" American television networks, having been formed in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America. NBC is sometimes referred to as the "Peacock Network," in reference to its stylized peacock logo, introduced in 1956 to promote the company's innovations in early color broadcasting. NBC has twelve owned-and-operated stations and nearly 200 affiliates throughout the United States and its territories, some of which are also available in Canada and Mexico via pay-television providers or in border areas over the air. NBC also maintains brand licensing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
