J. S. Harry or Jan Harry (4 January 1939 – 20 May 2015) was an Australian
poet
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described as "one of Australian poetry’s keenest satirists, political and social commentators, and perhaps its most ethical agent and antagonist."
J. S. Harry was born in
South Australia
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, but soon moved to
Sydney
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, where she remained. She worked as an editor for
Radio National
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History
1937: Predecessors an ...
and held a residency at
Australian National University
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. A recurrent character in her work was Peter Henry Lepus, a rabbit who name-drops philosophers such as
Bertrand Russell
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,
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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and
A. J. Ayer
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while popping up in the midst of topical events such as the
Gulf War
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. His satirical "clear-eyed vision of the world, and the humans that inhabit it, is that of an Everyrabbit, with its endless simplicity, trepidation and curiosity."
Among other accolades J. S. Harry won the
Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry
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, the Poetry Society's Book of the Year, the PEN International Lyne Phillips Poetry Prize and the
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form. Her recent works include ''Not Finding Wittgenstein'' (2007) a 'collected works' of Peter Henry Lepus and ''Public Private'' (2013). Posthumous publication of the last adventure of Peter Henry is anticipated (Giramondo Publishing).
Works
Poetry
* ''The Deer Under the Skin'' (1971)
* ''Hold for a Little While, and Turn Gently'' (1979)
* ''A Dandelion for Van Gogh'' (1985)
* ''The Life on the Water and the Life Beneath'' (Sydney: Angus & Robertson/Paperbark, 1995)
* ''Selected Poems'' (Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin, 1995)
* ''Sun Shadow, Moon Shadow'' (Sydney: Vagabond, 2000)
* ''Not Finding Wittgenstein'' (Giramondo, 2007)
*''Public Private'' (Sydney: Vagabond, 2013)
*J.S. Harry: New and Selected Poems (Giramondo, 2021)
Spanish
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&
Italian
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Australian Book Review
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