David Musgrave (born 1965) is an

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, novelist, publisher and critic. He is the founder of and publisher at Puncher & Wattmann, an independent press which publishes Australian poetry and literary fiction. He is also Deputy Chair of

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Life and career

Musgrave was born in Sydney and educated at

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where in 1997 he received a PhD for his thesis on the topic of

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. He worked for a number of years as a CIO in the Health Insurance industry. He currently lectures in creative writing at the University of Newcastle. His first book, ''To Thalia'' (Five Islands Press), was published and commended in the 2004

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; it was followed by ''On Reflection'' (Interactive) in 2005 and ''Watermark'' (Picaro) in 2006. "Phantom Limb" (John Leonard Press) was awarded the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 2011. Several of his poems have won major awards in Australia, including having twice won the

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in 2008 and 2012. His novel "Glissando: a Melodrama" (Sleepers), published in 2010 was critically well received and short listed for the Prime Minister's Award for Fiction in 2011 and the UTS Glenda Adams Prize for new writing. His book-length poem ''Anatomy of Voice'' (GloriaSMH, 2016) was awarded the Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry in 2016. He has published numerous articles on

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, including on

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's ''

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'' and David Ireland's ''The Unknown Industrial Prisoner.'' He has also written on The Black Dog and Depression (published in ''Tracking the Black Dog'' by th
Black Dog Institute
and published articles on

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and the

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hoax. His latest poetry collection is ''Selected Poems'', published by Eyewear Press in 2021. His study on Menippean Satire in English since the Renaissance, 'Grotesque Anatomies', was published by Cambridge Scholars Press in 2014. ''Mishearing'' is forthcoming from Gorilla Books in early 2022.

Awards

* 1986 -

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Prize for Poetry for the poem ''Afternoon Ambience'' * 1987 -

Prize for Poetry for the poem ''Budapest'' * 1987 -

Prize for English Verse for the poem ''What I did on Sunday'' * 1994 -

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Gallery Poetry Prize for the poem ''Glenrowan'' * 2001 - Poets Union/Broadway Poetry Prize for the poem ''Lagoon'' * 2003 - Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize for the poem ''Minneapolis'' * 2004 - Shortlisted for the

for ''To Thalia'' * 2006 - Highly commended in the

for the sequence ''Open Water'' * 2008
The Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize
for the poem ''Grace'' * 2008 -

for the poem ''The Baby Boomers'' * 2008 - Alec Bolton prize for the unpublished manuscript ''Phantom Limb'' * 2010 - Grace Leven Prize for Poetry for ''Phantom Limb'' * 2011 - Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Award for Fiction for ''Glissando: A Melodrama'' * 2011 - Shortlisted for the UTS Glenda Adams Award for new fiction for ''Glissando: A Melodrama'' * 2012 - Shortlisted for the Blake Poetry Prize for "Nine Crab Barn" * 2012 -

for the poem "Coastline" * 2016 -

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- State Library of Queensland Poetry Collection - Judith Wright Calanthe Award for ''Anatomy of a Voice''

Publications

Poetry

* ''To Thalia'' (2004) * ''On Reflection, or, A Twenty-twenty vision: A novelty'' (2005) ISBN 9781876819279 * ''Watermark: And other poems'' (2006) * ''Phantom Limb'' (2009) * ''Concrete Tuesday'' (2011) * ''Anatomy of a Voice'' (2015) ISBN 9780994527509 * ''Numb and Number'' (2019) ISBN 9781925780383 * ''Selected Poems'' (2021)

Other writing

* ''Glissando: A melodrama'' (2010) ISBN 9781740669337 * ''Grotesque Anatomies: Menippean satire since the Renaissance'' (2014) * ''Contemporary Australian Poetry'' (edited with J. Beveridge, J. Johnson and M. Langford) (2015) * ''Feeding the Ghost 1: Criticism on Contemporary Australian Poetry'' (edited with A. Kissane and C. Rickett) (2018)

References

External links

David Musgrave Home Page Puncher & WattmannPoetry ArchiveCambridgescholars.com
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