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Andrew Sant (born 1950) is an English-born Australian poet, essayist, and former editor. In 1962 Sant moved from London, where he was born, with his family to
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where he finished his formal education. He has since lived in
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for periods, particularly between the years 2002–2016. In 2001 he was resident at the University of Peking in
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. In the early nineties he was resident in the Australia Council-administered B R Whiting studio in Rome. He co-founded, in 1979, the major Australian literary magazine, ''Island'', based in Tasmania, where by that time he had moved. He served as an editor for ten years. Other occupations have included teaching at both secondary and tertiary levels, teaching literacy to the unemployed and to prisoners, managing a hostel for juvenile offenders, copywriting and, as part-owner of a small Tasmanian company, cider making. His poems have appeared individually in ''
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'', ''The Age'', and ''Antipodes'', among many other publications, and in major anthologies of Australian poetry. Sant has been described as a "distinctive and distinguished poet" in ''Australian Book Review''. He is also the author of a number of published essays which have appeared in the annual ''Best Australian Essays'' anthology and collected in ''How to Proceed'' of which ''The Times Literary Supplement'' said, "There is a wonderfully digressive quality ... His syntax follows suit: sentences balloon across lines, the subject weaving in and out of focus as his mind travels around it. There are moments of sparkling poetic clarity." He is a recipient of the Centenary Medal. Sant has been invited to read his work in numerous countries including Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, New Zealand and, often, the UK.


Bibliography


Poetry


Collections

* ''Lives'' (Angus and Robertson, 1980) * ''The Caught Sky'' (Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1982) * ''The Flower Industry'' (Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1985) * ''Brushing the Dark'' (William Heinemann, Melbourne, 1989) * ''Album of Domestic Exiles'' ( Black Pepper publishing, Melbourne, 1996) * ''Russian Ink'' ( Black Pepper publishing, Melbourne, 2002) * ''The Islanders'' (Shoestring Press, Nottingham UK, 2001) * ''The Unmapped Page'' - Selected Poems (Arc, UK, 2004) * ''Tremors: New & Selected Poems'' ( Black Pepper publishing, Melbourne, 2004) * ''Speed & Other Liberties'' (Salt Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2008) * ''The Lives and Times of the Islanders'' (Shoestring Press, Nottingham UK, 2008) * ''Fuel'' (Black Pepper, Melbourne, 2009) * ''Days of Incompletion and Other Poems'' (Picaro Press, 2009) * ''The Bicycle Thief'' (Picaro Press, Warner's Bay, NSW, 2009) chapbook * ''The Bicycle Thief & Other Poems'' ( Black Pepper publishing, Melbourne, 2013) * ''Baffling Gravity'' (Shoestring Press/Puncher & Wattmann, 2019) * ''Near the Border - New & Selected Poems'' (Shoestring Press, 2022)


Selected list of poems


Essays

* ''How to Proceed''(Shoestring Press, Notts, UK, 2015)(Puncher & Wattmann, Sydney, 2016) * ''The Hallelujah Shadow'' (Shoestring Press/Puncher & Wattmann 2020)


Anthologies

* ''First Rights - a Decade of Island Magazine'' (Greenhouse Publications, Melbourne, 1989) * ''Toads'' (Allen and Unwin, Melbourne, 1992)


References


External links



30 poems chosen by the author for the Australian Poetry Library

4 poems

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