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Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize
The Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, named in honour of a distinguished Queensland poet, is a literary award for an unpublished poetry manuscript by a Queensland-based author. The prize was established in 2003 and currently comes with prize money of $2000 and a publication contract with the University of Queensland Press. Entry can be submitted from anyone residing in Queensland and the award is administered and managed by the Queensland Poetry Festival on behalf of Arts Queensland. Award winners 2003 Lidija Cvetkovic, ''War is Not the Season for Figs'' 2004 Jaya Savige, ''latecomers'' 2005 Nathan Shepherdson, ''Sweeping the Light Back Into The Mirror'' 2006 Angela Gardner, ''Parts of Speech'' 2007 Sarah Holland-Batt, ''Aria'' 2008 Felicity Plunkett, ''Vanishing Point'' 2009 Rosanna Licari, ''An Absence of Saints'' 2010 Vlanes (Vladislav Nekliaev), ''Another Babylon'' 2011 Nick Powell, ''Water Mirrors'' 2012 Rachael Briggs, ''Free Logic'' 2013 David Stavanger, ''The Speci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Shapcott
Thomas William Shapcott (born 21 March 1935) is an Australian poet, novelist, playwright, editor, librettist, short story writer and teacher. Biography Thomas William Shapcott was born in Ipswich, Queensland, and attended the Ipswich Grammar School with his twin brother, who was born on the previous day (20 March 1935). (The writer is left-handed, but his twin is right-handed.) He left school at 15 to work in his father's accountancy business, but completed an accountancy degree in 1961. In 1967 he graduated in arts from the University of Queensland. His first artistic impulse was to be a composer. By age 19, he had written a number of works, but he turned away from music when he discovered a string quartet he had written unconsciously plagiarised a chamber work by Ernest Bloch. He then worked as a tax accountant, a profession that he pursued for 27 years. He was director of the Australia Council's Literature Board for seven years, and Executive Director of the National Book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland
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Poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or written), or they may also perform their art to an audience. The work of a poet is essentially one of communication, expressing ideas either in a literal sense (such as communicating about a specific event or place) or metaphorically. Poets have existed since prehistory, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary greatly in different cultures and periods. Throughout each civilization and language, poets have used various styles that have changed over time, resulting in countless poets as diverse as the literature that (since the advent of writing systems) they have produced. History In Ancient Rome, professional poets were generally sponsored by patrons, wealthy supporters including nobility and military officials. For inst ... [...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] |
Queensland Poetry Festival
Queensland Poetry Festival is the flagship program of Queensland Poetry one of Australia's premier organisations for all things poetry. It exists to support and promote a poetry culture in Queensland and Australia, embracing the wide possibility of poetic expression in all of its forms. As well as hosting an annual festival, Queensland Poetry also produces a number of signature projects and programs throughout the year. History QPF was originally founded by Brett Dionysius in 1997, an organisational role he continued in until 2001 when it was being run as the ''Subverse: Queensland Poetry Festival''. Queensland Poetry Festival then continued under a number of Directors and Managers including Rosanna Licari (2002–2003) and Graham Nunn (2004–2007) whilst becoming the incorporated entity Queensland Poetry Festival Inc in 2007. Since this new inception QPF has been directed by Julie Beveridge (2008–2009), Sarah Gory (2011–2014), Co-Directors Anne-Marie Te Whiu and David St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lidija Cvetkovic
Lidija Cvetkovic (born 1967) is a contemporary Australian poet. Lidija Cvetkovic was born in the former Yugoslavia and emigrated to Australia with her family in 1980. She earned a BA at the University of Queensland and has worked as a teacher and currently as a psychologist. Her writing draws on her Yugoslav heritage and the former country's history in an intensely lyrical manner. Her ''War is Not the Season for Figs'' won the 2003 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and the 2004 Anne Elder Award. Works Poetry *''War Is Not The Season For Figs''. (UQP, 2004) External links Lidija Cvetkovicpoems at Poetry International Web 2 poemsat Jacket Magazine ''Jacket'' (now published as ''Jacket2'') is an online literary periodical, which was founded by the Australian poet John Tranter. The first issue was in October 1997. Until 2010, each new number of the magazine was posted at the Web site pi ... References Brisbane Writers Festival Australian poets People from Brisbane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaya Savige
Jaya Savige is an Australian poet. Biography Born in Sydney (1978), Savige grew up in Queensland, on Bribie Island and in Brisbane, boarding at St Joseph's College, Nudgee. He attended the University of Queensland, where, after withdrawing from an LLB/BCom, he received a University Medal for his B.A. honours thesis in English on Shakespeare and Keats. In 2006 he completed an MPhil under the supervision of Bronwyn Lea. His first collection of poetry, ''Latecomers'' (2005), was awarded the NSW Premier's Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. From 2006 to 2011, he was poetry editor of the ''Australian Literary Review'', the literary supplement to ''The Australian'' newspaper. Since 2010, he has been poetry editor for ''The Australian''. As of 2008, Savige was a Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge, Christ's College. His second collection of poems, ''Surface to Air'', was published in late 2011. Jaya Savige is a lecturer in English an ... [...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] |
Felicity Plunkett
Felicity Plunkett is an Australian poet, literary critic, editor and academic. Biography Felicity Plunkett is a writer of poetry, essays, and short stories, and a widely published critic. She has a BA (Honours) and PhD from the University of Sydney and began her career as a university academic. She was poetry editor at the University of Queensland Press from 2010 to 2018. In 2016, she wrote a lyric, ''Todesfuge'', for composer Andrée Greenwell's album, ''Gothic.'' She worked with composer Andrew Ford, writing "Respair" for his song cycle ''Red Dirt Hymns''. Awards and nominations * ABC Radio National 2003 Short Story Competition for "Sleeping Like a Baby" * Newcastle Poetry Prize, 2005, shortlisted for ''The Sea in a Sieve'' * Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, 2006 for ''October's Road'' and ''Inside Your Wardrobe'' * Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, 2007, for ''Articulate; Stitching the Night; Learning the Bones'' * Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, 2008, winner for ''Vanish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krissy Kneen
Kris Kneen (formerly Krissy Kneen) is a Brisbane-based writer. Kneen has been shortlisted four times for the Queensland Premier's Literary Award. Career , they were marketing and promotions officer at Avid Reader bookshop. They have written two collections of erotica—''Swallow the Sound'' (2007) and ''Triptych'' (2011)—as well as four novels. They are also the author of three memoirs. ''Affection'' (2009) deals with their childhood and young adulthood through the lens of sexuality, ''The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen'' (2021) is principally about their grandmother, and ''Fat Girl Dancing'' (2023) concerns their relationship with their body. Their sole poetry collection, ''Eating my Grandmother'' (2015), won the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. They appeared in four events at the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival. Style and critical reception Their work has been described as "transgressive, sardonic, lyrical, comic; irresistibly erotic yet also romantic" and "acclaimed for its fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Barnes (poet)
Stuart Barnes (born 1977) is an Australian poet. Biography Barnes was born in Hobart, Tasmania, and educated at Monash University, Victoria. His first book, ''Glasshouses'', was awarded the 2015 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. The judges of the Anne Elder Award, for which the collection was commended, wrote: "Barnes is compelling, dramatic and imaginative. ... eis a major poet in the making; watch this space!" In ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', Jane Sullivan included ''Glasshouses'' in 'Books for the year: The treats in store from Australia and overseas in 2016'. The collection has been warmly received by critics: in ''The West Australian'', William Yeoman described it as "playful, subtle, moving, witty and outrageous—a major achievement"; in ''The Australian'', Geoff Page noted its "impressive balancing act between a love of precursors and the strategies of the avant-garde". In his conference paper 'Sonnets and Para-Sonnets', Stephen Guy-Bray, Professor, Departm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rae White
Rae White is a Brisbane-based poet and writer. White is non-binary and the founding editor of the online periodical ''#EnbyLife: Journal for non-binary and gender diverse creatives''. White's 2017 poetry collection ''Milk Teeth'' won the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, was commended in the 2018 Anne Elder Award, and was shortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. Their poetry and writing has been published in the Australian Poetry Journal, Capricious, Cordite, Meanjin, Overland, and Rabbit. White's poems have been described as "challeng ngnotions of category, identity, form and gender" and having an "ability to incorporate new techniques without alienating the reader". They are also involved in poetry judging panels, including the 2019 and 2020 ''Anne Elder Award''. They have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Production from QUT. Published works * ''Exactly As I Am'' published by UQP (2022) * '''''Abundantly blue'' in ''Australian poetry journal'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
