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Wesley Michel Wright Prize For Poetry
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] |
University Of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb north of Melbourne's central business district, with several other campuses located across Victoria. Incorporated in the 19th century by the colony of Victoria, the University of Melbourne is one of Australia's six sandstone universities and a member of the Group of Eight, Universitas 21, Washington University's McDonnell International Scholars Academy, and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities. Since 1872, many residential colleges have become affiliated with the university, providing accommodation for students and faculty, and academic, sporting and cultural programs. There are ten colleges located on the main campus and in nearby suburbs. The university comprises ten separate academic units and is associated with numerous institut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Beaver
Bruce Victor Beaver (14 February 1928 – 17 February 2004) was an Australian poet and novelist. Biography Beaver was born in Manly, New South Wales. He was educated at the Manly Public School and at the Sydney Boys' High School. He worked at a number of jobs, as a cow farmer, in radio, as a wages clerk, a surveyor's labourer, fruit-picker, proof-reader and journalist, before deciding to write full-time. From 1958 to 1962, he lived in New Zealand and Norfolk Island. In 1961 Beaver's first book of poetry was published. He wrote his first poem in response to the dropping of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, and continued to write even while working as a labourer. Thanks to his marriage, he was able to become a full-time writer. Even though he suffered from bipolar disorder, Beaver was able to continue writing until close to his death in 2004. When asked to list their favourite books, Dorothy Porter named Bruce Beaver and is quoted as saying: Awards * 1970: Grace Leven Prize for ... [...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] |
Jill Jones (poet)
Jill Jones (born 1951) is a poet and writer from Sydney, Australia. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide. In 1993 she won the Mary Gilmore Prize for her first book of poetry, ''The Mask and the Jagged Star'' (Hazard Press). Her third book, ''The Book of Possibilities'' (Hale & Iremonger), was published in 1997. It was shortlisted for the National Book Council 'Banjo' Awards and the Adelaide Festival Awards. Her fourth book, ''Screens, Jets, Heaven: New and Selected Poems'', was published by Salt Publishing in 2002. It won the 2003 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry (NSW Premier's Literary Awards). Her fifth full-length book, ''Broken/Open'' was published by Salt Publishing in 2005. It was shortlisted for ''The Age ''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kinsella (poet)
John Kinsella (born 1963) is an Australian poet, novelist, critic, essayist and editor. His writing is strongly influenced by landscape, and he espouses an 'international regionalism' in his approach to place. He has also frequently worked in collaboration with other writers, artists and musicians. Early life and work Kinsella was born in Perth, Western Australia. His mother was a poet and he began writing poetry as a child. He cites Judith Wright among his early influences. Before becoming a full-time writer, teacher and editor he worked in a variety of places, including laboratories, a fertiliser factory and on farms. Later poetry and writing Kinsella has published over thirty books and his many awards include three Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry, the John Bray Award for Poetry, and the 2008 Christopher Brennan Award. His poems have appeared in journals such as ''Stand'', ''The Times Literary Supplement'', ''The Kenyon Review'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Ballou
Emily Ballou is an Australian-American poet, novelist and screenwriter. Her poetry collection ''The Darwin Poems'', a verse portrait of Charles Darwin, was published by University of Western Australia Press in 2009.Award-winning book of poetry shortlisted for national award , University News : University News : The University of Western Australia News.uwa.edu.au (2010-06-17). Retrieved on 2010-11-22. It was written as part of an residency at the |
Caroline Caddy
Caroline Mavis Caddy (born 20 January 1944) is an Australian poet. Biography Born in Western Australia to an Australian mother and an American father, Caroline Mavis Caddy spent part of her childhood in the United States and Japan. She returned to Western Australia where she finished high school, and later worked as a dental nurse with the Road Dental Unit. According to Queensland poet Jaya Savige "Caddy writes with equal verve about the rural southwest of WA and her time abroad, particularly in China (though also Canada and Antarctica). ...Her relaxed, often conversational tone belies her sharp eye for detail which, combined with a knack for simile and metaphor, has remained acute throughout her career." Awards * 1990 – Western Australian Week Literary Award for poetry * 1991 – National Book Council Banjo Award for Poetry * 1992 – National Book Council Award for Poetry * 2008 – Wesley Michel Wright Prize Bibliography * ''Singing at Night'' (1980) * ''Letters From the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Andrews (translator)
Chris Andrews (born 1962 in Newcastle, NSW) is an Australian translator and writer. Andrews studied and then taught at the University of Melbourne before moving to the University of Western Sydney in 2009. In 2003 he published the first translation into English of the work of Roberto Bolaño. He was awarded the Valle-Inclán Prize in 2005 for his translation of ''Distant Star''. In 2014 he published a monograph on Bolaňo. Andrews has also translated other Spanish-language literature, such as works by César Aira. Andrews has been keen to publish translations from French but has been unable to convince publishers to commission translations for work he likes. Andrews has also published original poetry; his second collection of poems, ''Lime Green Chair'', won the 2011 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Works As author *''Poetry and Cosmogony: Science in the Writing of Queneau and Ponge'', Rodopi, 1999, *''Cut Lunch'', Indigo, 2002, *''Lime Green Chair'', Waywiser Press, 2012, *''Robe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Harrison (poet)
Martin Harrison (1949 – 6 September 2014) was an Anglo-Australian poet. Born and educated in England, Harrison arrived in Australia in the late 1970s after spending three years in New Zealand. He published poems and limited edition books in London and New Zealand before his first main collection, ''The Distribution of Voice'' (University of Queensland Press),appeared in Australia in 1993. In the 1980s Harrison worked as a literary journalist and reviewer as well as a producer for ABC Radio, where he was closely associated with sound art, new music and experimental radio work. Harrison's 1997 poetry collection ''The Kangaroo Farm'' ( Paper Bark Press) was shortlisted for the Victorian Premiers Award, and his 2001 collection ''Summer'' (Paper Bark Press) won the Wesley Michel Wright Prize in Poetry from the University of Melbourne. A selected poem, ''Wild Bees'' (University of Western Australia Press) was shortlisted for both the South Australian Premiers Awards and the Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronwyn Lea
Bronwyn Lea is a contemporary Australian poet, academic and editor. Biography Born in Tasmania, Lea grew up in Queensland and Papua New Guinea, moving to San Diego to study at California State University. She completed a PhD titled "The way into stone; To dwell in possibility: Social roles of the poet" at University of Queensland (UQ) in 2005 and as of 2021 is a full professor and head of the School of Communication and Arts at UQ. She was a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council from 2005–2008. Lea appeared in two events at the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Published works Poetry * ''The Deep North: A selection of poems'' (George Braziller, 2013) *''The Other Way Out''. (Giramondo Publishing, 2008) * ''The Wooden Cat and Other Poems''. (Picaro P, 2003) * ''Flight Animals''. (University of Queensland Press, 2001) Series Editor (with Martin Duwell) * '' The Best Australian Poetry''. University of Queensland Press ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Kent (poet)
Jean Kent (born 1951) is an Australian poet. Education Jean Kent was educated at the Glennie Memorial School in Toowoomba and graduated from University of Queensland with Bachelor of Arts majoring in psychology. She has worked in vocational guidance, educational guidance of disabled children, counselling of students and staff in TAFE colleges and, most recently, teaching creative writing. Jean now lives on the New South Wales north coast, which is a feature in her verse, as well the memories and experiences formed in youth and childhood in South East Queensland. Literary career Kent has published stories in many of Australia's quality literary magazines such as Overland, Westerly, Outrider, Imago, Australian Short Stories and Meanjin as well as in the American-based Antiopodes. She has published five poetry collections. ''Travelling with the Wrong Phrasebooks'' included poems about her travels in Paris and Lithuania. Her latest ''The Hour of Silvered Mullet'' contemplates her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Beveridge
Judith Beveridge (born 1956) is a contemporary Australian poet, editor and academic. She is a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award. Biography Judith Beveridge was born in London, England, arriving in Australia with her parents in 1960. She started her education at the Auburn North Public School in September 1961, and graduated in 1968 as "Dux of the School" (a title awarded to the student with best aggregate result over all subjects). Completing a BA at UTS she has worked in libraries, teaching, as a researcher and in environmental regeneration. From 2003 until 2018, she taught creative writing at The University of Sydney and was poetry editor for ''Meanjin'' from 2005 to 2015, having previously edited ''Hobo'' and the Australian Arabic literature journal ''Kalimat''. Awards and nominations * Wesley Michel Wright Award * 1988 – Mary Gilmore Prize for ''The Domesticity of Giraffes'' * 1988 – New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
