Jennifer Harrison (born 1955) is a contemporary

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poet. She is a recipient of the

Christopher Brennan Award The Christopher Brennan Award (formerly known as the Robert Frost Prize) is an Australian award given for lifetime achievement in poetry. The award, established in 1973, takes the form of a bronze plaque which is presented to a poet who produces w ...

. Born in

Liverpool, Sydney Liverpool is a suburb of Greater Western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located approximately south-west of the Sydney CBD. Liverpool is the administrative seat of the local government area of the City of Liv ...

, Harrison studied medicine and then specialised in psychiatry. Since her first volume of poetry, ''Michelangelo's Prisoners'' in 1994, she has published several more, winning the 1995

Anne Elder Award The Anne Elder Trust Fund Award for poetry was administered by the Victorian branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers from its establishment in 1976 until 2017. From 2018 the award has been administered by Australian Poetry. It is awarded ann ...

and being short-listed for the 2000 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. In 2011 she won the

for lifetime achievement in poetry. Her photography has been exhibited at the

National Gallery of Victoria The National Gallery of Victoria, popularly known as the NGV, is an art museum in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is Australia's oldest and most visited art museum. The NGV houses an encyclopedic art collection across two ...

. Having lived in the United States and New Zealand, Harrison resides in

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and is employed as a child psychiatrist. She is also a photographer. She is The Dax Poetry Collection Manager for the Dax Centre at the University of Melbourne.

Works

Poetry * ''Michelangelo's Prisoners''. (

Black Pepper publishing Black Pepper is an independent Australian publishing house founded by Kevin Pearson and Gail Hannah in 1995 specializing in Australian poetry and fiction. Its innovative titles have won critical acclaim. Publication In 1995 it published the first po ...

, 1994) * ''Mosaics & Mirrors: Composite poems''. (

, 1995) * ''Cabramatta/Cudmirrah''. (

, 1996) * ''Dear B''. (

, 1998) * ''Folly & Grief''. (

, 2006) REVIEW
/small> * ''Colombine, New & Selected Poems.'' (

, 2010) Edited * With Phil Ilton, ''Said the Rat!''. (

, 2003) * With Kate Waterhouse, ''Motherlode; Australian Women's Poetry 1986-2008''. (

Puncher & Wattmann David Musgrave (born 1965) is an Australian poet, novelist, publisher and critic. He is the founder of and publisher at Puncher & Wattmann, an independent press which publishes Australian poetry and literary fiction. He is also Deputy Chair o ...

, 2009)

References

External links

Jennifer Harrison Biography
at Black Pepper publishing 1955 births Living people Australian poets Australian psychiatrists Collection managers Writers from Sydney Psychiatrists from Melbourne Australian women poets Australian women psychiatrists {{Australia-poet-stub