The Poetry Resource » Australian Poets http://www.poetryresource.org Since 2006 Mon, 03 May 2010 21:42:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Les Murray on his latest work and Nobel Prizes http://www.poetryresource.org/2010/05/03/les-murray-on-his-latest-work-and-nobel-prizes/ http://www.poetryresource.org/2010/05/03/les-murray-on-his-latest-work-and-nobel-prizes/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 21:41:23 +0000 admin http://www.poetryresource.org/?p=168 From the Sydney Morning Herald, an in-depth piece on Murray. Very much worth the read.

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The Australian – a full obituary.

Sydney Morning Herald

The Guardian (UK)

]]> http://www.poetryresource.org/2010/04/26/vale-peter-porter/feed/ 0 David McComb http://www.poetryresource.org/2010/02/12/david-mccomb/ http://www.poetryresource.org/2010/02/12/david-mccomb/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:44:15 +0000 admin http://www.poetryresource.org/?p=159 1. Beautiful Waste – a review by Robert Forster

Beautiful Waste is the perfect McComb title: wry, self-deprecating, with a touch of futility – but always beautiful.

2. Publisher’s page for Beautiful Waste (Fremantle Press)

]]> http://www.poetryresource.org/2010/02/12/david-mccomb/feed/ 0 Scott-Patrick Mitchell http://www.poetryresource.org/2010/01/05/scott-patrick-mitchell/ http://www.poetryresource.org/2010/01/05/scott-patrick-mitchell/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:25:31 +0000 admin http://www.poetryresource.org/?p=151 1. Bio as winner of PressPress 2009 Chapbook Award

2. everyone knows what pelicans LOOK like

3. MySpace page with bio and links

]]> http://www.poetryresource.org/2010/01/05/scott-patrick-mitchell/feed/ 0 Clive James on poetry and life http://www.poetryresource.org/2009/10/12/clive-james-on-poetry-and-life/ http://www.poetryresource.org/2009/10/12/clive-james-on-poetry-and-life/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:41:45 +0000 admin http://www.poetryresource.org/?p=148 The Guardian have an extensive profile of, and interview with, Australian expatriate Clive James. A great deal of the article deals with his poetry and is well worth a read,

]]> http://www.poetryresource.org/2009/10/12/clive-james-on-poetry-and-life/feed/ 0 Mark O’Connor http://www.poetryresource.org/2008/01/03/mark-oconnor/ http://www.poetryresource.org/2008/01/03/mark-oconnor/#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:16:01 +0000 admin http://www.poetryresource.org/2008/01/03/mark-oconnor/ 1. Australian Poet
- O’Connor’s official site

2. ABC
- short piece on O’Connor as 2000 Olympics poet.

]]> http://www.poetryresource.org/2008/01/03/mark-oconnor/feed/ 0 Adam Aitken http://www.poetryresource.org/2007/06/03/adam-aitken/ http://www.poetryresource.org/2007/06/03/adam-aitken/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 admin 1. Wikipedia- Brief bio but main reward is the links at bottom of page – one of the better Wikipedia entries

2. Adam Aitken’s Cambodia Diary- a blog commenced in May 2007

]]> http://www.poetryresource.org/2007/06/03/adam-aitken/feed/ 3 Hal Colebatch http://www.poetryresource.org/2007/04/24/hal-colebatch/ http://www.poetryresource.org/2007/04/24/hal-colebatch/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 admin 1. Connor Court Publishing

- page summarising Colebatch’s latest collection, ‘The Light River’

2. The Rathouse

- a brief biography

3. Wikipedia

- another brief biography.

]]> http://www.poetryresource.org/2007/04/24/hal-colebatch/feed/ 0 Kenneth Slessor http://www.poetryresource.org/2006/10/14/kenneth-slessor/ http://www.poetryresource.org/2006/10/14/kenneth-slessor/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 admin 1. National Library of Australia
- a biography and detailed description of Slessor’s papers – fascinating information

2. WzDD’s HSC Info Page
- one HSC student’s notes on a range of Slessor’s poems: Sleep, Wild Grapes, North Country, Country Towns, Captain Dobbin

]]> http://www.poetryresource.org/2006/10/14/kenneth-slessor/feed/ 1 Lisa Bellear http://www.poetryresource.org/2006/09/24/lisa-bellear/ http://www.poetryresource.org/2006/09/24/lisa-bellear/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 admin 1. Arts Hubs Australia
- a biography / obituary for Bellear who died in July 2006

2. Australian Society of Authors – Web of Poets
- hear Bellear read some of her work
- bibliography
- sample poems

3. Altitude
- a critical discussion on white people understanding their ‘whiteness’, using of one of Bellear’s poems – Feelings

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