Komninos Zervos (1950 - )
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Komninos, performance poet, has been poeting since 1985 professionally, taking his poetry to schools, community groups, hotels, music venues, prisons, coffee lounges and universities, radio and television and now the internet. Komninos has had three plays performed by professional theatre companies in Sydney and Brisbane. In 1992 Komninos received the Australian human rights award for literature and in 1991 was awarded the Australia Council's Ros Bower Award for outstanding achievement in community arts. In 1995 Komninos completed a Masters of Arts in creative writing at the University of Queensland, he authored a cd-rom of cyberpoetry for his dissertation. In 1997 Komninos travelled to London to be writer in residence at Artec a multimedia training and resource centre in Islington where he authored a cd-rom, cyberpoetyry underground. Komninos is a full time lecturer and convenor of the CyberStudies major in the School of Arts, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus. |
Photo of Komninos Zervos by Effie Alexakis, 1992.
Komninos Zervos's publications include:
Poetry: Komninos, (University of Queensland Press, 1991), Komninos by the Kupful, (University of Queensland Press, 1994),The Baby Rap and Other Poems,(with Peter Viska), (Oxford University Press, 1992), High Street, Kew East, (with Diana Reynolds), (Collins/Angus and Robertson, 1990). |