Thylazine: The Australian Journal of Arts, Ethics & Literature #9/thyla9k
AUSTRALIAN POETS SERIES 9
Meredith Wattison, S.K. Kelen, Barbara A Taylor, Paul Hardacre, Kathleen Morgan, Sara Moss, Luke Davies, Anne Kellas, Paul Hetherington, Magdalena Ball
Selected by Coral Hull
Meredith Wattison
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The title poem of Meredith Wattison's first book of poetry, Psyche's Circus, shared the 1989 Rothman's Poetry Prize. She recorded some poems from her second book Judith's Do for ABC Radio National's The Science Show with Robyn Williams. Meredith Wattison lives on the pastoral outskirts of Sydney, not too far from the sea. Her 4th book, The Nihilist Line (The Fishwife's Other Tail) was published by Five Islands Press, August, 2003. Meredith Wattison's publications include: Poetry: Psyche's Circus, (Poetry Australia, 1989), Judith's Do in Conversations of Love, (Penguin Books Australia, 1996), Fishwife, (Five Islands Press, 2001), The Nihilist Line, ... |
[Above] Photo of Meredith Wattison by Kylie Lyons, 2001.
S.K. Kelen
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S. K. Kelen's poems have been appearing in journals, newspapers and on radio since 1973. Kelen teaches creative writing and poetry and lives mostly in Canberra. In 1996 Kelen was Visiting Professor of Writing at the University of South Dakota; in 1998 he was Asialink Writer-in-residence in Vietnam; he was the recipient of the ACT Chief Minister's Creative Arts Fellowship for 2000 and the 2001 Capital Arts Patrons Award. S. K. Kelen's published books include The Gods Ash Their Cigarettes, (Makar Press, 1978), To the Heart of the World's Electricity, (Senor, 1980), Atomic Ballet, (Hale & Iremonger, 1991), Dingo Sky, (HarperCollins/Angus&Robertson, 1993), Trans- ... |
[Above] Photo of S.K. Kelen by Russell Kelen, 2002.
Barbara A Taylor
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Barbara A Taylor has published prose and poetry and is a regular local reader at Stand Up Poets’ evenings. The natural environment, politics, peace and women are the main interests and themes. Her work has been on several women's literary ezines in UK, USA and Canada, in an anthology of Far North Coast winning women writers, From The Circle of Women, Imago23, Beyond The Rainbow and regional newspapers. She has read her poems on community, local and web radio. Recently she won the Friends of The ABC Far North Coast Region Open Poetry Award with her poem "Oceans of Ethnic Harmony". On International Women's Day 2003, she was invited by Dangerously ... |
[Above] Photo of Barbara A Taylor by Barbara A Taylor, 2003.
Paul Hardacre
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Paul Hardacre was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1974. In 1998, he received an Individual Project Grant from Arts Queensland to write a collection of poetry, Millennium Fetish. Also in 1998, he was appointed as an editor of the Queensland Writers' Centre's Rave Young Writers Page. In mid-2000, he founded papertiger media with his partner, designer Marissa Newell. He has published his own poetry in six countries, and has read his work on radio and at literary events throughout Australia. His first collection of poetry, The Year Nothing, was published by HeadworX in 2003. His unpublished poetry ... |
[Above] Photo of Paul Hardacre by Marissa Newell, 1999.
Kathleen Morgan
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Born in 1969 and raised in suburban Sydney, the writing of poetry began seriously at the age of eight years old. Publication in various anthologies, newspapers, and newsletters (regional, national, and international) followed, with the first publication of poetry occurring in a local newspaper (1992), followed by the first publication within an anthology (1994), and first performed public reading of original works at the NSW Writers Centre, Sydney (1991). While employed as a Teachers Aide, the establishment of creative writing groups for gifted and talented students within a number of NSW public and independent schools was undertaken, utilising poetry to develop literacy ... |
[Above] Photo of Kathleen Morgan by David Hammer, 2004.
Luke Davies
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Luke Davies is the author of four volumes of poetry and two novels. His second volume of poetry Absolute Event Horizon was shortlisted for the National Book Council Poetry Prize (the Turnbull Phillips Fox Award). Davies' novel Candy has become something of a cult classic. It has been published in the United States and Great Britain, and (in translation) in Germany, Spain and Israel. His third volume of poetry Running With Light won the Judith Wright Poetry Prize 2000 as part of Queensland's Premiere's Literary Awards. Davies' short stories and poems have been published in various anthologies, magazines and newspapers. His new volume of poetry Totem will be published by Allen & Unwin in ... |
[Above] Photo of Luke Davies by Karen Brien, 1997.
Sara Moss
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Sara Moss was born in Somerset England in 1967 and migrated to the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia in 1979. She studied history and politics at Macquarie University, fuelling an interest in public affairs, social justice and the environment which is still reflected in her writing. Sara has been publishing and performing poetry for almost ten years. Her first individual collection, A Deep Fear of Trains, was released in 2000 by Interactive Publications. She's currently working with digital artist Scart (aka Shane Carter) in the Synaptic Graffiti Collective. They debuted a live multimedia performance of poetry, flash animation, artistic images and ... |
[Above] Photo of Sara Moss by Shane Carter, 2003.
Anne Kellas
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Born near Johannesburg in South Africa, Anne Kellas grew up under the apartheid regime. Her work was first published in 1979 when she belonged to a group of writers known as the "Circle of Eight" who met as friends at the home of poet and publisher Lionel Abrahams. Shortly after the first State of Emergency was declared, she and her husband, journalist Giles Hugo, and their two children left South Africa for Australia. She is co-editor with Giles Hugo of the e-journal, The Write Stuff, and is one of the poetry reviewers for 'famous reporter'. Kellas's work is also featured in the following anthologies: Moorilla Mosaic, Hobart: Bumble Bee Books, 2000 (an anthology of 25 Tasmanian ... |
[Above] Photo of Anne Kellas by Giles Hugo, 2001.
Paul Hetherington
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Paul Hetherington lives in Canberra, Australia. He has published seven volumes of poetry, most recently the novel in verse, Blood and Old Belief. His poetry has been published in literary journals and magazines in a variety of countries, including the USA, Denmark and Japan; has been widely anthologised; and has been recognised with a number of awards. He was a finalist in the 1993 Antipodes Poetry Contest (USA), winner of the 1996 Australian Capital Territory Book of the Year Award (for Shadow Swimmer) and winner of the 1997 ANUTECH Poetry Prize. In 2002 he was awarded a Chief Minister's ACT Creative Arts Fellowship and he was Highly Commended in the 2003 ... |
[Above] Photo of Paul Hetherington by Loui Seselja, 1995.
Magdalena Ball
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Magdalena Ball has been writing professionally for over 20 years. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from CCNY (New York) with a BA in English Literature. She also studied English literature and business at a postgraduate level at Oxford University in the UK and Charles Sturt University in Australia and has an MBA. She has been published in magazines within Australia and through the world and is the author of The Art of Assessment: How to Review Anything, and The Literary Lunch: Recipes For a Hungry Mind. Magdalena is a staff writer at E2K and Editor-In-Chief of The Compulsive Reader (Book Reviews) and Preschool Entertainment web sites and is a manuscript ... |
[Above] Photo of Magdalena Ball by photographer unknown, 2004.
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