Rodney Hall AM (born 18 November 1935) is an

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writer.

Biography

Born in

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, England, Hall came to Australia as a child after

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and studied at the

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(1971). In the 1960s Hall began working as a freelance writer, and a book and film reviewer. He also worked as an actor, and was often engaged by the

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in Brisbane. Between 1967 and 1978 he was the Poetry Editor of ''

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''. He began publishing poetry in the 1970s and has since published fourteen novels, including ''Just Relations'' and ''The Island in the Mind''. He lived in

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for a period in the late 1980s. From 1991 to 1994, he served as chair of the

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. Hall lives in Victoria. In addition to a number of literary awards such as twice winning the

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, he was appointed a Member of Order of Australia for "service to the Arts, particularly in the field of literature" in 1990. Hall's memoir ''Popeye Never Told You'' was launched in May 2010 and was published by Pier 9. He was co-founder of the Australian Summer School of Early Music in

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. In June 2014 he staged

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's opera '' Euridice'' at the Woodend Winter Arts Festival.

Awards

Bibliography

Novels

* ''The Ship on the Coin: A Fable of the Bourgeoisie'' (1972) * ''A Place Among People'' (1975) * '' Just Relations'' (1982) * ''Kisses of the Enemy'' (1987) * '' Captivity Captive'' (1988) – third book in the Yandilli trilogy * '' The Second Bridegroom'' (1991) – first book in the Yandilli trilogy * '' The Grisly Wife'' (1993) – second book in the Yandilli trilogy * ''The Island in the Mind'' (1996) * '' The Day We Had Hitler Home'' (2000) * ''The Last Love Story'' (2004) * '' Love Without Hope'' (2007) * ''A Stolen Season'' (2018) * ''

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Short fiction

;Collections * ''Silence'' (2011)

Poetry

;Collections * ''The Climber'' (1962) * ''Penniless Till Doomsday'' (1962) * ''Poems' (1963) * ''Forty Beads on a Hangman's Rope'' (1963) * ''Eyewitness'' (1967) * ''The Autobiography of a Gorgon'' (1968) * ''The Law of Karma'' (1968) * ''Australia'' (1970) * ''Heaven, In a Way'' (1970) * '' A Soapbox Omnibus'' (1973) * ''Selected Poems'' (1975) * ''Black Bagatelles'' (1978) * ''Voyage Into Solitude'' (1978) * ''The Most Beautiful World'' (1981) * ''The Owner of My Face: New and Selected Poems'' (2002) ;Anthologies (edited) * ''New Impulses in Australian Poetry'' (1968) with

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* ''Australian Poetry 1970'' (1970) * ''Poems from Prison'' (1973) * ''Australians Aware'' (1975) (a collection of poems and paintings) * ''Voyage into Solitude'' (1978) (a collection of Michael Dransfield poetry) * ''The Second Month of Spring'' (1980) (a collection of Michael Dransfield poetry) * ''The Collins Book of Australian Poetry'' (1981) * ''Michael Dransfield: Collected Poems'' (1987) ;List of selected poems

Non-fiction

* ''Focus on

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'' (1968) * ''J. S. Manifold: An Introduction to the Man and His Work'' (1978) * ''Australia - Image of a Nation 1850-1950'' (1983) (the text of a photographic collection) * ''Home: Journey Through Australia'' (1988) * ''Abolish the States!'' (1998) ;Memoirs * ''Popeye Never Told You'' (2010)