Amanda Stewart (born 1959) is a contemporary

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and sound/performance artist. Amanda Stewart began writing and performing poetry in the 1970s and has since produced a wide array of sound, video and multimedia work. In the 1980s she worked for

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radio as a producer. Amanda Stewart received the

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in 1988. In 1989 she co-founded the performance ensemble Machine for Making Sense with Chris Mann, Rik Rue, Jim Denley and

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, and in 1995 started the trio Allos. She has toured

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, the

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and

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. She co-wrote and directed the 1990 film ''Eclipse of the Man-Made Sun'' about nuclear weapons in popular culture. Her opera ''The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior'', written with the composer Colin Bright, was performed as part of the

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in 1997. It has since been produced for radio by the ABC

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. Her collected works book and CD entitled ''I/T'' won the 1999

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for poetry.

Works

*''I/T: Selected poems 1980–1996''. (Sydney: Here and There/Split Records, 1998) *Clemens, Justin, et al. “Noise and Voice: An Interview with Amanda Stewart.” ''Sydney Review of Books'', 03 Oct. 2017, 1 May. 2020, sydneyreviewofbooks.com/interview/noise-and-voice-an-interview-with-amanda-stewart/. *''Poems by Amanda Stewart.'' Jacket2, 29 Nov. 2011, 27 April 2020, jacket2.org/poems/poems-amanda-stewart.

External links

From I/T
at However
5 poems
at Lyrikline.org, with audio, biography, bibliography, and links.
Stasis Duo and Amanda Stewart
recordings at ABC TV

poem at Jacket Magazine

on her own work 1959 births Australian classical musicians Australian opera librettists Australian poets Australian women artists Australian women dramatists and playwrights Australian women poets Living people Writers from Sydney Women opera librettists Artists from Sydney {{Australia-writer-stub