Tim Metcalf is an Australian
poet
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and
doctor
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and has been described as one of Australia's most published doctor-poets.
He lives at
Brogo
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. He has specialized in remote area medicine since 1984 and has worked in NSW, Victoria, NT and British Columbia. In 2007 he was awarded the
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poetry award for his anthology of poems ''Verbal Medicine.''.
''Local Writer's Poetry Prize'', Bega News, 21 Dec 2007
/ref> ''Verbal Medicine'' is his fourth book.
He was awarded First Prize in the Annual Australian W B Yeats Poetry Prize in 2000 for his entry 'Stages of Dying"
Bibliography
* ''Corvus'', Ginninderra Press Canberra 2001
* ''Cut to the Word'', Ginninderra Press Canberra 2002
* ''Into the No Zone'', Ginninderra Press Canberra 2003
* ''Verbal Medicine'', Ginninderra Press, Canberra, 2006
* ''The Solution to Us'', Ginninderra Press Adelaide 2008
* ''The Effective Butterfly'', Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide 2010
* ''Last To Go and Other Poems'', Picaro Press, Cardiff NSW 2012
* ''The Underwritten Plain'', Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide 2018
References
External links
Tim Metcalf's Home Page
contains poems and essays, a full bibliography, readings in medical literature developed for Australian National University Medical School, and the Poets of the Bega Valley Audio Project
Review of ''Verbal Medicine'' by Dr Jim Leavesley, ''Australian Doctor'', 1 Feb 2007
Australian poets
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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