Poets

Wednesday, 28 January 2015 00:00

Barry Hill

Author

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Barry Hill, award winning poet, non-fiction author and essayist, was short listed for the 2009 Melbourne prize for literature. Barry's latest book, Reason and Lovelessness, Essays, Encounters, Reviews 1980-2017 was published in March 2018 by Monash University Press. 

"Barry Hill’s collection of essays from the last four decades is commanding and impressive. Few could match his range of subjects: from Tagore to John Berger, Lucian Freud to Christina Stead – all, for the most part, carried off with aplomb."

~ Patrick McCaughey, Australian Book Review

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Wednesday, 26 November 2014 00:00

Kevin Hart

Poet, Non-Fiction Writer

hartKevin Hart was born in the UK in 1954, and grew up in London and Brisbane. He was educated at the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne. An award winning poet, he is the Jo Rae Wright University Professor in the School of Divinity at Duke University. He has written extensively on critical theory, modern poetry and eighteenth century literature. 

Kevin Hart's latest book of poetry, Barefoot, was published in 2018 by Notre Dame Press, and was selected as a finalist in Poetry in the 2018 Foreword INDIES. He is at present working on three new volumes of poetry. Recent books include Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation (Chicago UP, 2023), Dark Land: Memoir of a Secret Childhood (Paul Dry Books, 2024) and Contemplation: The Movements of the Soul (Columbia UP, forthcoming 2024).

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Wednesday, 26 November 2014 00:00

Janine M. Fraser

Children’s Author and Poet

fraser-smJanine Fraser lives on Phillip Island in Victoria. She loves to travel and meet new people, and listen to their stories.  She found the story of Abdullah in Malaysia, and the Sarindi stories in Indonesia.

sarahs two nativities coverJanine's latest book, Sarah's two Nativities was published by the Black Dog Books Imprint of Walker Books in September 2019

 

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Wednesday, 26 November 2014 00:00

Robert Adamson

Poet

adamsonRobert Adamson was appointed Professor of Poetry at University of technology Sydney (UTS) in February 2012. At the Sydney Writers' Festival in May 2016, Adamson launched the historic Australian issue of Poetry, which he edited, with Don Share, editor of Chicago’s Poetry Foundation. He edited Black Inc's Best Australian Poems 2010 and Best Australian Poems 2009. Adamson's latest collection of poetry, Net Needle, was published in May 2015 by Black Inc in Australia and by Flood Editions in the US, and by Bloodaxe Books in the UK in May 2016.  

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Friday, 24 November 2017 00:00

Doris Brett

Philomella cvrAuthor and Poet

Doris Brett, born in 1950, is a Clinical Psychologist and writer who is married, has one daughter and lives in Melbourne, Australia. She has published eight books ranging from poetry to novels to therapeutic storytelling for children. Her debut work of middle-grade fiction, Philomella and the Impossible Forest, was published by HardieGrant Books in 2023.

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