The Best Australian Poems 2011 (17 page)

 

Sarah Holland-Batt
was born in Queensland in 1982. Her first book, 
Aria 
(UQP), won the Arts ACT Judith Wright Poetry Prize, the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, and the FAW Anne Elder Award. She lives in New York.

 

Jodie Hollander
was raised in a family of classical musicians. Her poetry has been published in
Page Seventeen
,
Poetry Ireland
,
Under the Radar,
Poetry New Zealand
and
the
Warwick Review
, among others. She lives in Melbourne with her husband.

 

Duncan Hose
is a poet, painter and academic scholar. His latest book of poems is
One Under Bacchus
(Inken Publisch, 2011). In 2010 he won the Newcastle Poetry Prize. (
www.duncanhose.com
)

 

D.J. Huppatz
is a Melbourne-based writer who has published poetry in various journals both in Australia and the US. He also writes occasional literary criticism, and design and architectural criticism on his blog,
Critical Cities
.

 

Mark William Jackson
was born in England in 1970. He now lives in Sydney with his wife and daughters. His work has appeared in various print and online journals including
Going Down Swinging
. Mark blogs on
Overland
and his own website. (
markwmjackson.com
)

 

John Jenkins
is a Melbourne-based poet, writer and former journalist. His most recent book of poems is
Growing Up With Mr Menzies
(John Leonard Press, 2008) while his latest non-fiction book is
Travellers' Tales of Old Cuba
(Ocean Press, new edition, 2011).

 

A. Frances Johnson
lectures in creative writing at the University of Melbourne. Her books include the novel
Eugene's Falls
(Arcadia, 2007), and she has a poetry collection,
The Wind-up Birdman of Moorabool Street
, forthcoming from Puncher & Wattmann.

 

Evan Jones
was born in West Preston, Melbourne, in 1931. After studying journalism at the University of Melbourne, he spent the rest of his working life in academia until his early retirement in 1989.

 

Jill Jones
has published six collections of poetry, most recently
Dark Bright Doors
(Wakefield Press, 2010), which was shortlisted for the 2011 Kenneth Slessor Prize. She is a member of the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide.

 

Paul Kane
has published five collections of poems, most recently
The Scholar's Rock
(Otherland Publishing, 2011). He is poetry editor for
Antipodes
. He lives with his wife in Warwick, New York, with a second home near Talbot, in rural Victoria.

 

S.K. Kelen
's poetry has been widely published for over thirty years. His collection
Earthly Delights
(Pandanus Books, 2006) was joint winner of the ACT's Judith Wright Award for a published book of poetry in 2007.

 

Cate Kennedy
's three volumes of poetry are
Signs of Other Fires
(Five Islands Press, 2001),
Joyflight
(Interactive Publications, 2004) and
The Taste of River Water
(Scribe, 2011). She has won the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize and the 2011 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry. She lives on a farm in north-east Victoria.

 

Richard King
is a freelance writer. He writes regularly for the
Australian
and the
Sydney Morning Herald
and has been published in many magazines and journals. He lives in Fremantle, Western Australia. (
richardjking.blogspot.com
)

 

Graeme Kinross-Smith
, an Honorary Fellow in Arts at Deakin University, is a poet, novelist, award-winning short fiction writer and photographer. His latest collection of poetry,
Available Light
, will appear shortly from Whitmore Press.

 

Andy Kissane
's most recent collection,
Out to Lunch
(Puncher & Wattmann, 2009), was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Kenneth Slessor Prize. A book of short stories,
The Swarm
, will be published in 2012. (
andykissane.com
)

 

Mike Ladd
lives in Adelaide and produces
Poetica
on ABC Radio National. He has published six books of poetry and is currently working on a collection of short-form poems called
Miniatures
.

 

Sam Langer
was born in 1983. His poems have appeared in the
Age
,
Otoliths
and
Overland
. He is the founding editor of
Steamer
.

 

Martin Langford
has published six books of poetry, including
The Human Project: New and Selected Poems
(Puncher & Wattmann, 2009). He lives on the northern outskirts of Sydney.

 

Anthony Lawrence
's latest poetry collection,
Bark
(UQP 2008), was shortlisted for the
Age
Poetry Book of the Year Award and the Queensland Premier's Award. His book-length poem
The Welfare of My Enemy U
is forthcoming.

 

Geoffrey Lehmann
has released seven poetry collections and a
Selected Poems
and
Collected Poems
. He has edited two anthologies of Australian comic verse, and co-edited (with Robert Gray) two previous anthologies of Australian poetry.

 

W.M. Lewis
is a Brisbane-based poet and fiction writer, whose epic haiku and poems have appeared in
Cordite Poetry Review
.

 

Kate Lilley
's
Versary
(Salt Publishing, 2002) won the Grace Leven Prize and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Awards. Her second collection,
Ladylike
, is forthcoming from Salt Publishing.

 

Debbie Lim
lives in Sydney. She received the 2009 Arts ACT Rosemary Dobson Prize for an unpublished poem. A chapbook is forthcoming with Vagabond Press in 2012.

 

Helen Lindstrom
, a writer and teacher, grew up in Melbourne and now lives in Adelaide. Her first collection of poetry,
Cold Comfort,
was published by Brand New Lino Press in 2009 and republished by Ginninderra Press in 2011.

 

Astrid Lorange
is a PhD candidate, teacher, researcher, editor and poet from Sydney. Her poetry books include
Eating and Speaking
(Tea Party Republicans Press) and
Minor Dogs
(bas-books), both published in 2011.

 

Roberta Lowing
's first book of poetry
Ruin
(Interactive Press, 2010) was joint winner of the 2011 Asher Literary Award. Her first novel
Notorious
(Allen & Unwin, 2010) was shortlisted for the 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Award and the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

 

Anthony Lynch
is an editor with Deakin University and the publisher for the independent poetry press, Whitmore Press. His first collection of poetry,
Night Train
, is about to appear from Melbourne publisher Clouds of Magellan.

 

David McCooey
's first book of poems,
Blister Pack
(Salt Publishing, 2005), won the Mary Gilmore Award. His second collection,
Outside
, is forthcoming from Salt Publishing. He teaches literary studies and professional & creative writing at Deakin University, Victoria.

 

David McGuigan
is a poet, town planner and teacher, recently returned to Adelaide from teaching students on remote Aboriginal communities. He has had many poems and short stories published in journals around Australia.

 

Rhyll McMaster
's poetry has won awards including the C.J. Dennis and Grace Leven prizes. Her collection
Late Night Shopping
will be published in 2012 by Brandl & Schlesinger.

 

Jennifer Maiden
was born in Penrith in 1949. Her many awards include the Christopher Brennan Award for Lifetime Achievement. Her latest collection,
Pirate Rain
(Giramondo, 2010), won the 2011 NSW Premier's Prize.

 

John Miles
has published two books of poems and a new collection is nearing completion. His awards include winning the Shrewsbury International Poetry Competition.

 

Peter Minter
is a leading Australian poet, editor and scholar. He is poetry editor of
Overland
magazine.

 

Les Murray
's work has been published in ten languages. He has won many literary awards, including the T.S. Eliot Award (1996) and the 1999 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, on the recommendation of Ted Hughes.

 

David Musgrave
is publisher at the independent press Puncher & Wattmann, which he founded in 2005. His four books of poetry include
Phantom Limb
(John Leonard Press, 2010), which won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 2011.

 

Nguyen Tien Hoang
arrived in Australia from Vietnam in 1974. His poems and essays have appeared widely, including in a published collection,
Beyond Sleep
(1990). He is on the editorial panel of literary e-magazine
damau.org
.

 

Jal Nicholl
lives in Melbourne, where he writes and paints as much as time and work commitments allow.

 

Mark O'Flynn
has published two novels as well as three collections of poetry, most recently
What Can Be Proven
(Interactive Publications, 2007). A third novel is forthcoming from HarperCollins. He lives in the Blue Mountains.

 

Ella O'Keefe
is a PhD candidate at Deakin University in the School of Communication and Creative Arts. Her work includes radio pieces aired on Radio National. She currently lives in Melbourne.

 

Paul O'Loughlin
is a Sydneysider who, with a number of poems in anthologies, in 2010 published his first collection of poetry.

 

Ouyang Yu
, originally from China, has by the age of fifty-six published fifty-nine books. His latest English poetry collection is
The Kingsbury Tales
(Brandl & Schlesinger, 2008).

 

Louise Oxley
has published two collections,
Compound Eye
(2003) and
Buoyancy
(2008), with Five Islands Press, and a selection of her work,
Sitting with Cézanne,
is Picaro Press's
Wagtail
41.

 

Geoff Page
is a Canberra-based poet. His latest books are
Agnostic Skies
(Five Island Press, 2006) and
60 Classic Australian Poems
(UNSW Press, 2009). He has also released a CD,
Coffee with Miles
(River Road Press, 2009).

 

Eddie Paterson
's poems have been widely published. He is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Melbourne.

 

Janette Pieloor
's poetry has been published in magazines and journals. She was runner-up in 2009 for the ACT Michael Thwaites Poetry Award. She lives in Canberra and is currently working on her first collection of poetry.

 

Felicity Plunkett
's first collection of poetry,
Vanishing Point
(UQP, 2009), won the Thomas Shapcott Prize and was shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards. Her latest chapbook is
Seastrands
(Vagabond Press, 2011). Since 2010 she has been poetry editor at UQP.

 

Claire Potter
was born in Perth. In 2006 she was awarded an Australian Young Poets Fellowship. Her first full-length collection is
Swallow
(Five Islands Press, 2010).

 

David Prater
was born in Dubbo in 1972. Papertiger Media published his first poetry collection,
We Will Disappear
, in 2007. Since 2001 he has been the managing editor of
Cordite Poetry Review
. He currently lives in Karlskrona, Sweden.

 

Aden Rolfe
is a Melbourne-based writer whose work includes performance writing, collage and criticism. His poetry has appeared in
Overland
,
The Best Australian Poetry 2009
and the
Melbourne Historical Journal.

 

Peter Rose
is the author of a family memoir,
Rose Boys
(Allen & Unwin, 2001), which won the National Biography Award in 2003. His latest novel is
Roddy Parr
(Fourth Estate, 2010). His new poetry collection,
Crimson Crop
, will appear in early 2012. He is the editor of
Australian Book Review
.

 

Penni Russon
lives in St Andrews with her husband and young children. Her most recent novel is
Only Ever Always
(Allen & Unwin, 2011). She maintains a blog called
Eglantine's Cake
.

 

Gig Ryan
has been poetry editor at the
Age
since 1998. She has published eight collections of poetry, the most recent being
New and Selected Poems
(Giramondo, 2011).

 

Philip Salom
's books include the satirical verse-novel
Keepers
(Puncher & Wattmann, 2010), the first of a trilogy. In 2003 he received the Christopher Brennan Award.