Thylazine: The Australian Journal of Arts, Ethics & Literature #2/thyla2k
AUSTRALIAN POETS SERIES 2
Anthony Lawrence, Jennifer Harrison, Michael Crane, Rebecca Edwards, Brendan Ryan, Emma Lew, Geoff Goodfellow, Terry Whitebeach, John Stokes, Louise Crisp
Selected by Coral Hull
Anthony Lawrence
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Anthony Lawrence was born in Tamworth, New South Wales in 1957. He has published poems in many magazines and journals both in Australia around the world, and his work has won many major awards, including the New South Wales Premier's Award, The Judith Wright Calanthe Award and the Newcastle Poetry Prize. Some of Anthony's publications include, Dreaming In Stone, (Angus & Robertson, 1989), Three Days Out Of Tidal Town, (Hale & Iremonger, 1992), The Darkwood Aquarium, (Penguin, 1993), Cold Wires Of Rain, (Penguin, 1994), The Viewfinder, (University of Queensland Press, 1996), Skinned By Light: New & Selected Poems, (University of Queensland Press, 1998), In The Half ... |
[Above] Photo of Anthony Lawrence by Jenni Mitchell, 2000.
Jennifer Harrison
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Jennifer Harrison has written three books of poetry. The first, Michelangelo's Prisoners published by Black Pepper in 1995, won the 1995 Anne Elder Award. Her second collection, Cabramatta /Cudmirrah, (Black Pepper, 1996) was highly commended by the Poetry Book Club, Australia and her third, Dear B, (Black Pepper, 1999) was short-listed for both the 1999 Age Book of the Year and the NSW Premier's Award. She is currently working on her fourth collection assisted by a literary grant from The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. Her new work is inspired by Australian and European street-theatre traditions. She has lived in ... |
[Above] Photo of Jennifer Harrison by Bruce Day, 1997.
Michael Crane
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Michael Crane was born in Brisbane in 1961. From 1989 to 1991 Michael read many times in open sections of various readings in Melbourne. Michael organised the first Poetry Slam in Australia in 1991 and since then has organised more than 150 Slams. He is organising a Poetry Slam at the 2000 Melbourne Writers Festival. Michael self-published three chapbooks from 1991 to 1994: The Book of Screams, An Almost Summer and Joan of Arc was a fire-eater. Michael's work has now appeared in most literary journals and newspapers. In 1998 ten of Michael's poems appeared in the collection Loose Kangaroos which featured three other writers including Sandy Jeffs. In 1998 Michael's first ... |
[Above] Photo of Michael Crane by Coral Hull, 1996.
Rebecca Edwards
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Rebecca Edwards was born in 1969 and is a graduate of the University of Queensland where she majored in Japanese. A poet and visual artist living in Townsville, she has been a guest of major poetry festivals throughout Australia and published her first volume of poems Eating The Experience with Metro Press in 1994. Her second book, Scar Country, was published by University of Queensland Press in 2000. Her unpublished long poem "Night Is The Smell of Burning" won the inaugural Arts Queensland Poetry Award vin 1999. Her first solo art exhibition Little Dangers was held at Flinders Gallery in 1999; a second exhibition will be held at the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, both in Townsville. She has ... |
[Above] Photo of Rebecca Edwards by Jenni Mitchell, 1999.
Brendan Ryan
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Brendan Ryan grew up on a dairy farm at Panmure in western Victoria, and currently lives in Melbourne. He has had poems published in a number of journals including Otis Rush, Meanjin, Ulitarra and Southerly. He has poems forthcoming in Westerly, Heat, The Age, and Going Down Swinging. In December 2000, a critical essay on Philip Hodgins will be published in Antipodes. Brendan is studying for his Dip. Ed, and hopes, idealistically, to give students an education in poetry that he didn't receive. Brendan Ryan's first book of poetry is Why I Am Not a Farmer published by Five Islands ... |
[Above] Photo of Brendan Ryan by Alison Girvan, 2000.
Poet Emma Lew
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Emma Lew was born in Melbourne in 1962. She completed an Arts degree at Melbourne University in 1986, and worked as a deckhand, shop assistant, proof reader, receptionist and clerical assistant. She began writing poems in 1993, and her first collection, The Wild Reply (Black Pepper, 1997), was joint-winner of The Age Poetry Book of the Year award, winner of the Mary Gilmore prize, and short-listed for the NSW Premier's Literary Prize. Her work has appeared in journals in Australia (including HEAT, Meanjin, Island, Overland and Southerly), and overseas (including PN Review, Wormwood Review, Hanging Loose, Landfall and Prism International). ... |
[Above] Photo of Emma Lew by Jenni Mitchell, 1998.
Geoff Goodfellow
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Geoff Goodfellow was born in Adelaide in 1949, and began writing in 1982 when a severe injury forced his early retirement from the building industry. A 'poet for hire', Goodfellow is well-known for taking poetry to building and construction sites, jails, factories, offices, youth training centres, drug and alcohol rehabilitation units, private and state schools, colleges, universities, regional and remote areas, homes for the criminally insane and corporate boardrooms. As writer-in-residence at various universities Geoff has toured Cuba, the USA, Canada, the UK, Europe and China and has been a feature guest at major literary festivals. Geoff lives in Semaphore, heartland of the working-class, in South ... |
[Above] Photo of Geoff Goodfellow by photographer unknown, 1999.
Terry Whitebeach
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Terry Whitebeach is a Tasmanian writer, teacher and community artist. She has two adult sons and two adult daughters. For the last four years she has been living and working in Central Australia, very happily, and dreaming of going home to Tasmania. Terry teaches Creative writing for Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education (BIITE) and undergraduate literature for the Institute for Aboriginal Education (IAD), in the La Trobe / IAD Arrernte Bachelor of Arts course. In her spare time she is doing a PhD at the Northern Territory University, in history (their literature department has been dismantled). Her research area is biography: her topic; "Speaking Unspeakable Stories". Terry has ... |
[Above] Photo of Terry Whitebeach by Lyn Woolley, 1999.
John Stokes
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John Stokes is an Australian short-story writer and poet who has travelled widely in Europe and Australia as a surveyor, a town and environmental planner, and an adviser on Landcare, Rivercare, salinity and sustainable agriculture. His work has been widely anthologised in Australia and North America; including in journals such as Idiom 23, Muse, Redoubt, Scarp, Studio, Ulitarra, & Voices. He reads on radio and at various festivals. He won the Woorilla Poetry Prize in 1996 and has been runner-up in various regional prizes. John says that his present passion is Australian landscape ... |
[Above] Photo of John Stokes by Heidi Smith, 1999.
Louise Crisp
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Louise Crisp was born in Omeo, Victoria in 1957. She majored in Lingistics, Anthropology and Prehistory at the Australian National University in Canberra. She has worked in various occupations around New Zealand and Australia including firetower person on Mt Nugong in East Gippsland, and deckhand in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. Her first collection of poetry, the luminous ocean, was published in a joint volume with Valery Wilde entitled In The Half-Light (Friendly Street Poets, 1988); pearl and sea fed (Hazard Press, 1994) was shortlisted in the 1995 NSW Premiers Awards. Her latest book of poetry is Ruby Camp published by Spinifex Press in 1997. Louise lives in East Gippsland with her ... |
[Above] Photo of Louise Crisp by Tom Cameron, 1997.
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