Morgan Yasbincek (born 1964) is a contemporary Australian

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...

and academic. Morgan Yasbincek lives in

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where she completed her PhD at

Murdoch University Murdoch University is a public university in Perth, Western Australia, with campuses also in Singapore and Dubai. It began operations as the state's second university on 25 July 1973, and accepted its first undergraduate students in 1975. Its n ...

.Yasbincek, Morgan
at Austlit database. She has held a residency at the

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, United Kingdom in 1998 and currently teaches creative writing at Murdoch. Her writing, in both poetry and prose, deals with everyday concerns refracted through the lens of contemporary literary theory. Her first collection of poems, ''Night Reversing'', won both the

Anne Elder Anne Elder (4 January 1918 – 23 October 1976) was an Australian ballet dancer and poet. Career Inspired by Anna Pavlova, she commenced ballet lessons with Laurel Martyn in the 1930s, and went on to have an impressive career dancing with Colo ...

and the

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s for poetry.

Works

Poetry *''Night Reversing''. (

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, 1996) *''Firelick''. (Fremantle Arts Centre, 2004) *''White Camel''. (John Leonard Press, 2009) Novel *''Liv: A novel''. (Fremantle Arts Centre, 2000)

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at However
Review of ''Firelick''
1964 births 20th-century Australian novelists Australian poets Australian women novelists Australian women poets Living people Academic staff of Murdoch University Murdoch University alumni 20th-century Australian women writers {{Australia-poet-stub