Komninos Zervos (born 1950) is a
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Australia
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performance poet
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and teacher. He was born in Richmond, Melbourne.
Life
Born in
Melbourne
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in 1950, Komninos Zervos currently lives in
Melbourne
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, Australia.
Komninos' poems are a playful combination of social commentary, autobiography and farce. He has performed poetry professionally in pubs, literary festivals, TV, radio, schools, streets, universities and prisons; published poetry in books, literary journals and anthologies; and authored animated and interactive multimedia poems for the internet. He is the recipient of numerous grants.
Awards
* 1991 Australian
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Poetry Award for ''Komninos''
* 1992 Australia Council/Ros Bower Community Artist of the Year.
* 1997 Prix Ars Electronica, Austria, .Net Award, Highly Commended.
* 2001 Electronic Literature Organisation Literature Award for poetry, Runner-up.
Bibliography
* ''the komninos manifesto''. (Fat Possum, 1985)
* ''the second komninos manifesto''. (Fat Possum, 1986)
* ''the last komninos manifesto''. (Koala Munga, 1987)
* ''high street, kew east''. (Collins/Angus and Robertson, 1990). illust. Diana Reynolds.
* ''komninos''. (UQP, 1991)
* ''the baby rap and other poems''. (Oxford University Press, 1992). illust. Peter Viska.
* ''komninos by the kupful''. (UQP, 1994)
* ''exercises in surrealism'' . (Koala Munga, 2008)
* ''manifesto 2008 - 2009''. (Koala Munga, 2009)
Articles on Komninos
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Geoff Page
Geoffrey Donald Page (born 7 July 1940) is an Australian poet, translator, teacher and jazz enthusiast.
He has published 22 collections of poetry, as well as prose and verse novels. Poetry and jazz are his driving interests, and he has also writ ...
's ''A Reader's Guide to Australian Poetry'', UQP, 1995, pages 161 - 164.
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William Wilde
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's ''Australian Poets and their Works: A reader's guide'', Oxford, 1996, pages 140 - 141.
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Wilde, Hooton and Andrews ''The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature'', 2nd edition, Oxford,1994, page 439.
Notes
External links
CyberPoetry Website Archivekomninos's website
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1950 births
20th-century Australian poets
Australian people of Greek descent
Living people
21st-century Australian poets
Australian male poets
20th-century Australian male writers
21st-century Australian male writers