Martin Duwell (born 1948, in England) is an Australian poetry editor, reviewer and publisher. Duwell is recognized as a leading poetry reviewer in Australia, as well as for his "significant contribution to the recognition and development of new poetry in Australia".

Life

Duwell was educated at the

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and has maintained a long association with the university as a teacher, scholar and editor for the poetry magazine ''Makar'' (1968–80) and the related Gargoyle Poets Series (1972–80). Throughout his career, Duwell's reviews of new publications have appeared frequently in many Australian magazines and newspapers. In 1982 he published ''A Possible Contemporary Poetry: Interviews with Thirteen Poets from the New Australian Poetry''. He was also the poetry editor for the

University of Queensland Press Established in 1948, University of Queensland Press (UQP) is an Australian publishing house. Founded as a traditional university press, UQP has since branched into publishing books for general readers in the areas of fiction, non-fiction, poetr ...

for several years during the 1980s. Duwell formalised his strength in contemporary poetry with a 1988 PhD thesis that explored the influence of contemporary

American poetry American poetry refers to the poetry of the United States. It arose first as efforts by American colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional unification of the Thirteen Colonies (although ...

on a selection of Australian poets. He was also co-editor of the ''Penguin Literary History of Australian Literature'' (1988), and worked with Robert Dixon on two collections of Aboriginal song poems: ''The Honey-Ant Men's Love Song and Other Aboriginal Song Poems'' (1990), and ''Little Eva at Moonlight Creek and Other Aboriginal Song Poems'' (1994). A co-editor of ''

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'' since 1982, Duwell also edited the ''ALS Guide to Australian Writers'' (1992) and several other publications, including

John Blight Frederick John Blight (30 July 1913 – 12 May 1995) was an Australian poet of Cornish origin, his ancestors having arrived in South Australia on the ''Lisander'', in 1851. In the 1987 recording ''John Blight'', he describes his Cornish backgro ...

's ''Selected Poems 1939-1990'' (1992). In 2003 he edited the first in a series of ''Best Australian Poetry'', a selection of poems that appear in periodicals during each year.

Publications

Duwell was the co-editor of ''The Best Australian Poetry'' series and the editor of 37 books of poetry in the Gargoyle Poets Series, Makar Press and was the editor of ''Makar'' magazine from 1968 to 1980.

References

External links

AustLitAustralian Poetry Review
(Martin Duwell's website) *Martin Duwell a
UQP
*Martin Duwell in conversation with Jeffery Poacher 2010
Jacket Magazine
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