Audrey Clarice Longbottom (c.1922 – 1986) was an Australian poet.

Life

Longbottom was born in

Coramba, New South Wales Coramba is a small historic town north-west of Coffs Harbour in northern New South Wales, Australia. The North Coast railway passes through, and a now-closed railway station was provided from 1922. In the 1890s, gold was mined in the area. The ...

, around 1922. After leaving school aged fourteen,Audrey Longbottom
''AustLit: Discover Australian Stories''. Accessed 1 September 2020. she later attended the

University of Wollongong The University of Wollongong (abbreviated as UOW) is an Australian public research university located in the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, approximately 80 kilometres south of Sydney. As of 2017, the university had an enrolment of ...

as a mature student. She then began to write poetry and prose. Longbottom won the

Commonwealth Poetry Prize The Commonwealth Poetry Prize was an annual poetry prize established in 1972, for a first published book of English poetry from a country other than the United Kingdom. It was initially administered jointly by the Commonwealth Institute and the Nat ...

in 1980, and the Grenfell Henry Lawson Prize in 1981. She died on 21 April 1986 at

Cremorne, New South Wales Cremorne is a suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, located 6 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of North Sydney Council. Cremorne Junction is a localit ...

Works

* ''Relatives and reliques''. Sydney: Wentworth Books, 1979. * (with Susan McGowan and Kathryn Purnell) ''Trillium : a selection of poetry''. Newtown, Vic.: Neptune Press, 1983. * ''The solitary islands''. Sydney: Ollif Pub. Co., 1985.

References

1922 births Year of birth uncertain 1986 deaths 20th-century Australian poets Australian women poets Writers from New South Wales 20th-century Australian women {{Australia-poet-stub