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Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize
Queensland Poetry Festival was the flagship program of Queensland Poetry, one of Australia's premier organisations for all things poetry. It existed to support and promote a poetry culture in Queensland and Australia, embracing the wide possibility of poetic expression in all of its forms. As well as hosting an annual festival, Queensland Poetry also produced a number of signature projects and programs throughout the year. History QPF was originally founded by Brett Dionysius in 1997, an organisational role he continued in until 2001 when it was being run as the ''Subverse: Queensland Poetry Festival''. Queensland Poetry Festival then continued under a number of Directors and Managers including Rosanna Licari (2002–2003) and Graham Nunn (2004–2007) whilst becoming the incorporated entity Queensland Poetry Festival Inc. in 2007. Since this new inception QPF has been directed by Julie Beveridge (2008–2009), Sarah Gory (2011–2014), Co-Directors Anne-Marie Te Whiu and David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland
Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south, respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and the Pacific Ocean; to the state's north is the Torres Strait, separating the Australian mainland from Papua New Guinea, and the Gulf of Carpentaria to the north-west. With an area of , Queensland is the world's List of country subdivisions by area, sixth-largest subnational entity; it List of countries and dependencies by area, is larger than all but 16 countries. Due to its size, Queensland's geographical features and climates are diverse, and include tropical rainforests, rivers, coral reefs, mountain ranges and white sandy beaches in its Tropical climate, tropical and Humid subtropical climate, sub-tropical c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selina Tusitala Marsh
Selina Tusitala Marsh (born 21 April 1971) is a New Zealand poet, academic and illustrator, and was the New Zealand Poet Laureate for 2017–2019. Early life Marsh was born in 1971 in Auckland, New Zealand. Through her mother, Sailigi Tusitala, Marsh is of Samoan and Tuvaluan ancestry and through her father James Crosbie she is of English, Scottish and French descent. Career Marsh grew up in Avondale, Auckland, New Zealand and resides on Waiheke Island. She gained her doctorate from the University of Auckland in 2004 after completing her thesis titled ''"Ancient banyans, flying foxes and white ginger": five Pacific women writers''. Marsh is a Professor in the English, Drama and Writing Studies Department at the University of Auckland where she teaches Creative Writing, and Pacific Literature. Marsh's notable students include Robert Sullivan. Marsh has edited the Pasifika poetry section of the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre. In 2015 Marsh won the Literary Death Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Doty
Mark Doty (born August 10, 1953) is an American poet and memoirist best known for his work ''My Alexandria.'' He was the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. Early life Mark Doty was born in Maryville, Tennessee, to Lawrence and Ruth Doty, with an older sister, Sarah Alice Doty. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. Career Doty's first collection of poems, ''Turtle, Swan'', was published by David R. Godine in 1987; a second collection, ''Bethlehem in Broad Daylight'', appeared from the same publisher in 1991. ''Booklist'' described his verse as "quiet, intimate" and praised its original style in turning powerful young urban experience into "an example of how we live, how we suffer and transcend suffering". Doty's "Tiara" was printed in 1990 in an anthology called ''Poets for Life: Seventy-Six Poets Respond to AIDS''. This po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanine Leane
Jeanine Leane (born 1961) is a Wiradjuri poet and activist from southwest New South Wales. She is an associate professor in creative writing at the University of Melbourne. Biography Jeanine Leane was born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. She is a member of the Wiradjuri nation. She earned her BA in Literature and History from University of New England, Armidale in 1983. She earned a Graduate Diploma of Education from University of Canberra in 1984. In 2011, she earned a doctorate in Australian literature and Aboriginal representation. Her research not only explored Aboriginal narratives, but examined white settler icons to give an Aboriginal perspective and critique. She had a long career as a secondary school teacher before becoming faculty at University of Melbourne. She worked with Aboriginal students to support them entering university programs. She also taught indigenous education to non-Aboriginal student teachers. She was an Indigenous Research Fellow at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overland (magazine)
''Overland'' is an Australian literary and cultural magazine, established in 1954 and published quarterly in print as well as online. History ''Overland'' was established in 1954, under the auspices of the Realist Writers Group in Melbourne, with Stephen Murray-Smith as the first editor-in-chief. It was initially formed by anti-Stalinist members of the Communist Party of Australia and other members of the 1950s New Left. Editors The magazine has been edited by: * Stephen Murray-Smith, 1954–1988 * Barrett Reid, 1988–1993 * John McLaren, Spring 1993 – Autumn 1997 * Ian Syson, Winter 1997 – Summer 2002 * Nathan Hollier and Katherine Wilson, Autumn 2002 – Spring 2004 * Nathan Hollier, 2005–2006 * Jeff Sparrow, 2007–2014 * Jacinda Woodhead, 2015–2019 * Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk, since 2019 Description ''Overland'' describes itself as "Australia’s oldest radical literary magazine", which publishes fiction, poetry, non-fiction and art. It says it "co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aboriginal Australian
Aboriginal Australians are the various indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands. Humans first migrated to Australia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, and over time formed as many as 500 language-based groups. In the past, Aboriginal people lived over large sections of the continental shelf. They were isolated on many of the smaller offshore islands and Tasmania when the land was inundated at the start of the Holocene inter-glacial period, about 11,700 years ago. Despite this, Aboriginal people maintained extensive networks within the continent and certain groups maintained relationships with Torres Strait Islanders and the Makassar people of modern-day Indonesia. Over the millennia, Aboriginal people developed complex trade networks, inter-cultural relationships, law and religions, which make up some of the oldest, and possibly ''the'' oldest, continuous cultures in the world ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Durcan
Paul Francis Durcan (16 October 1944 – 17 May 2025) was an Irish poet who was Ireland Professor of Poetry between 2004 and 2007. Early life and education Paul Francis Durcan was born in Dublin on 16 October 1944. He grew up in Dublin and spent his summers in Turlough, County Mayo. His father, John, was a barrister and circuit court judge and his mother Sheila MacBride from Westport was a qualified solicitor. In the early 1960s, he studied Economics at University College Dublin. While at college, Durcan was committed to St. John of God Hospital. In the 1970s, he studied archaeology and medieval history at University College Cork. Career In 1966, Durcan moved to London, where he worked with fellow Irish poet Michael Hartnett as a security guard at the North Thames Gas Board. Durcan's main published collections include: ''A Snail in my Prime'', ''Crazy About Women'', ''Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil'' and ''Cries of an Irish Caveman''. He appeared on the 1990 Van M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Hofmann
Michael Hofmann (born 25 August 1957) is a German-born poet, translator, and critic. ''The Guardian'' has described him as "arguably the world's most influential translator of German into English". Biography Hofmann was born in Freiburg into a family with a literary tradition. His father was the German novelist Gert Hofmann. His maternal grandfather edited the Brockhaus Enzyklopädie. Hofmann's family first moved to Bristol in 1961, and later to Edinburgh. He was educated at Winchester College, and then studied English Literature and Classics at Magdalene College, Cambridge, graduating with a BA in 1979. For the next four years, he pursued postgraduate study at the University of Regensburg and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1983, Hofmann started working as a freelance writer, translator, and literary critic. He has since gone on to hold visiting professorships at the University of Michigan, Rutgers University, the New School University, Barnard College, and Columbia Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinemoana Baker
Hinemoana Baker (born 1968) is a New Zealand poet, musician and recording artist, teacher of creative writing and broadcaster. Biography Baker was born in Christchurch in 1968 and grew up in Whakatāne and Nelson. She descends from the Ngāi Tahu tribe in the South Island of New Zealand, and from Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Toa and Te Āti Awa in the North Island. She also has English and German (Bavarian) heritage. Baker is queer and takatāpui. she is living in Germany, after completing 12 months as Creative New Zealand's Berlin Writer in Residence in 2016. She was chosen as the New Zealand Randell Cottage Writing Fellow for 2024. Baker holds an MA in creative writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington. Career Baker's writing has been published in a number of journals and anthologies. Her works include the poetry collections ''mātuhi , needle'' (2004), ''kōiwi kōiwi , bone bone'' (2010), ''waha , mouth'' (2014) an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Rhodes
Shane Rhodes is a Canadian poet. Life He graduated from the University of New Brunswick, and currently lives in Ottawa. He is a two-time winner of the Archibald Lampman Award for poetry. In 2008, when his work ''The Bindery'' won the award, Rhodes turned over half of the $1,500 prize money to the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health, a First Nations health centre. At the time the award was named the Lampman-Scott Award, honouring both Archibald Lampman and Duncan Campbell Scott, and Rhodes felt that Scott's legacy as a civil servant who was responsible for some of Canada's more controversial policy legacy on First Nations issues overshadowed his work as a pioneer of Canadian poetry."Poet donates prize as reminder of award namesake's legacy". CBC News, October 21, 2008. Rhodes identifies as bisexual. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warsan Shire
Warsan Shire (born 1 August 1988) is a British writer, poet, editor, and teacher who was born to Somali parents in Kenya. In 2013, she was awarded the inaugural Brunel University African Poetry Prize. Early life and career Born on 1 August 1988 in Kenya to Somali parents, Shire migrated with her family to the United Kingdom at the age of one. She has four siblings. She has a Bachelor of Arts in creative writing. In 2011, she released ''Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth'', a poetry pamphlet published by flipped eye. A full collection of hers was released in 2016, also through flipped eye. Shire was mentored through The Complete Works programme for poets of colour. Shire has read her poetry in various artistic venues throughout the world, including in the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, North America, South Africa, and Kenya. Her poems have been published in various literary publications, including '' The Poetry Review'', ''Magma'', and ''Wasafiri''. Shire's poems has bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeet Thayil
Jeet Thayil (born 1959) is an Indian poet, novelist, librettist and musician. He is the author of several poetry collections, including ''These Errors Are Correct'' (2008), which won the Sahitya Akademi Award. His first novel, ''Narcopolis (book), Narcopolis,'' (2012), won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize and Hindu Literary Prize, ''The Hindu'' Literary Prize. Biography Thayil was born in Kerala, India. His father is writer and editor T. J. S. George, Thayil Jacob Sony George, and the family moved with his work. Thayil was raised in Mumbai until age 8, then moved to Hong Kong, and returned to Mumbai at age 18 where he graduated from Wilson College, Mumbai, Wilson College. He later completed an MFA at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. Until age 40, Thayil lived in Mumbai and Bengaluru, and worked as a journalist in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hong Kong, and New York. In 2006, he told ''The Hindu'' that he had been an alcoholic a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
