Thylazine: The Australian Journal of Arts, Ethics & Literature #5/thyla5k
AUSTRALIAN POETS SERIES 5
David Brooks, Adam Aitken, MTC Cronin, Ken Bolton, Judith Rodriguez, Lionel Fogarty, Gig Ryan, Peter Boyle, Meghan Boynton and Paul Cliff
Selected by Coral Hull
David Brooks
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David Brooks' first collection of poetry, The Cold Front (Hale & Iremonger 1983), won the Ann Elder Award and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Prize. His books include The Book of Sei, (Hale & Iremonger 1986; Faber & Faber 1987), Sheep and the Diva (McPhee Gribble 1990) and Black Sea (Allen & Unwin 1997) and his longer fictional work The House of Balthus (Allen & Unwin 1995). David also has essays The Necessary Jungle (McPhee Gribble 1990), and edited works of and on A.D. Hope Selected Poems (HarperCollins/ A&R 1991), The Double Looking Glass: New and Classic Essays on the Poetry of A.D. Hope (UQP 2000), R.F. Brissenden and others, Poetry and Gender (edited with Brenda ... |
[Above] Photo of David Brooks by Jenni Mitchell, 1999.
Adam Aitken
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Adam Aitken was born in London in 1960. After graduating from Sydney University in 1982, he co-edited the garage literary journal P76, then returned to Thailand with the intention of immersing himself in the culture and language of his relatives. Adam has written Letter to Marco Polo, (Island Press, 1985), In One House, (Angus and Robertson, 1996), Crossing Lake Toba, (Salt Publishing, 1999) and Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles, (Brandl and Schlesigner, 2000). In One House, was mentioned three times as a Best Book of 1996 in the review pages of The Australian and the Sydney Morning Herald. The latest, Romeo & Juliet in Subtitles was shortlisted for the South Australian Arts ... |
[Above] Photo of Adam Aitken by Jenni Mitchell, 2000.
MTC Cronin
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MTC Cronin has been published in over 100 different journals, newspapers and anthologies in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, the UK, Canada and the USA. Four collections of her poetry have been published. In 1998 she was awarded the Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship for Poetry and a Residential Mentorship at Varuna Writers' Centre. She has also been the recipient, in 1998 and 2000, of two Ian Potter Foundation Cultural Trust Grants and in 2001 of an Established Writers New Work Grant from the Australia Council, to work on manuscripts of poetry. After being employed for most of the decade of the nineties in law, she has in recent ... |
[Above] Photo of MTC Cronin by Jeanette Cronin, 1998.
Ken Bolton
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Ken Bolton is a poet, art critic, editor & publisher. He was born in Sydney in 1949. Since 1982 he has lived and worked in Adelaide, where he is associated with the Experimental Art Foundation. He edits Little Esther books. He edited the literary magazines Magic Sam (1970s) & Otis Rush (1980s & 90s). Ken Bolton's art criticism has appeared chiefly in Adelaide, in The Broadsheet, Artlink, Otis Rush and regularly in the early 90s in The Advertiser. Ken Bolton runs the Experimental Art Founation bookshop. He has published less often as a literary critic: in Otis Rush, Overland, Australian Book Review and has published a significant reassessment of Les Murray's work in Heat magazine. The ... |
[Above] Photo of Ken Bolton by Jenni Mitchell, 1998.
Judith Rodriguez
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Judith Rodriguez was born in Perth and brought up in Brisbane. Nine collections of her poetry have been published. Judith has had a number of exhibitions of her linocuts in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Paris. In the early 1990s she was commissioned by the Australian Opera to write a libretto for Sydney composer Moya Henderson, on the subject of the death of baby Azaria Chamberlain and the trial of Lindy Chamberlain. This opera, Lindy, will be produced in 2002. A past Poetry Editor of Meanjin Quarterly, Judith was for eight years in the 1990s the Series Editor of modern Australian poetry at Penguin Books Australia. She has been awarded three Australia Council fellowships. She works on the ... |
[Above] Photo of Judith Rodriguez by Jenni Mitchell, 1998.
Lionel Fogarty
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Lionel Fogarty was born at Barambah, now known as Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve in Queensland. Since the 1970s he has been active in many of the political struggles of the Aboriginal people, particularly in southern Queensland, from the Land Rights movement, to setting up Aboriginal health and legal services, to black deaths in custody. He is also an Australian poet who has opened up the new space of black Australian surrealist writing and done much to reformulate our understanding of poetic discourse and its roles in both black and white communities. Lionel Fogarty has been acclaimed as a strong and ... |
[Above] Photo of Lionel Fogarty courtesy of Feral Arts (QLD), 1998.
Gig Ryan
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Gig Ryan was born in 1956. Her first book of poems, The Division of Anger, appeared in 1981 and was co-winner of the Anne Elder Poetry Award. Her other books of poetry include; The Division of Anger (1981), Manners of an Astronaut (1984), The Last Interior (1986), Excavation (1990), Pure and Applied (1998) and Heroic Money (2001). In 1988 she was awarded a Writer's Fellowship from the Literature Board of the Australia Council. Gig writes songs for her band, Driving Past. Gig Ryan's fifth book of poetry Pure and Applied won the Victorian Premier's Award for poetry in 1999. She is poetry editor at The Age, Melbourne, and a freelance reviewer. Gig lives in Melbourne, Victoria. ... |
[Above] Photo of Gig Ryan by Jenni Mitchell, 1997.
Peter Boyle
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Peter Boyle was born in Melbourne in 1951. His family moved to Sydney in 1961. After High School he studied Arts at the University of Sydney. He has worked as a teacher of English, History and Communications in high schools and in TAFE. His first book of poetry, Coming home from the world (Five Islands Press 1994) won the NSW Premiers Award and the National Book Council Banjo Award. The Blue Cloud of Crying (1997) also won the Banjo Award and the Adelaide Festival Poetry Prize. His poetry has been included in Landbridge (Fremantle Arts Centre Press) and Calyx (Paper Bark Press). He has translated extensively from French and Spanish poets, notably Lorca, Vallejo, Eugenio Montejo and Pierre ... |
[Above] Photo of Peter Boyle by Jenni Mitchell, 1999.
Meghan Boynton
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Megan Boynton is a 17 year-old indigenous Australian poet who lives at Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. She recently completed Year 12. Meghan takes interest in all outdoor activities including poetry and reading. Her work has been presented at the Melbourne Writers Festival by fellow indigenous writer and activist Lisa Bellear. As a result of that day a CD was recorded called "Creating A Space". Meghan writes about personal experiences that have affected her life as well as experiences she has heard of from the Aboriginal community in Balranald. Meghan is a strong, emerging and orginal voice in indigenous Australian poetry who believes in moving forward ... |
[Above] Photo of Meghan Boynton by photographer unknown, year unknown.
Paul Cliff
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Paul Cliff has published three collections and has been included on the CD Australian Poetry: Live at Chats (Geoff Page, 1999) and in anthologies (Mattara, Poet's Choice, Footprints on Paper) and has also published book reviews. For the past 20 years he has worked as a book editor (McGraw-Hill, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) and magazine editor (Simply Living and Geo). He currently works in the National Library of Australia's publishing division, where his compilation The Endless Playground (on Australian childhood, based on the Library's Oral History, Pictorial and Manuscript Collections) received honorable mention in the Centre for Australian Cultural Studies Awards ... |
[Above] Photo of Paul Cliff by Skye Blomfield, year unknown.
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