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
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 ...
"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
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 ...
Bibliography
* ''Singing at Night'' (1980)
* ''Letters From the North'' (1985)
* ''Beach Plastic'' (1989)
* ''Conquistadors'' (1991)
* ''Antarctica'' (1996)
* ''Working Temple'' (1996)
* ''Editing the Moon'' (1999)
* ''Esperance: New and Selected Poems'' (2007)
* ''Burning Bright'' (2010)
References
External links
The Keeper and the Grovepoem from ''Esperance''
'Place, Palimpsest and the Present Day: Gondwana in Caroline Caddy’s ''Antarcticaby Rosalind McFarlane
''Cordite Poetry Review''
1944 births
Living people
Australian people of American descent
Australian women poets
Writers from Western Australia
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