Outstanding contemporary poetry from Australia and the US, presented in association with the Poets Union. Three poets with a deep interest in the natural world share their responses. Devin Johnston works out of the American mid-west. A birder and environmentalist, his poems explore the effect humans are having on the environment. Bob Adamson is closely associated with the Hawkesbury River: no-one has summoned its presence so strongly in print. And Anthony Lawrence has a long record of writing about his relationship with living things - from farm animals to whales in Tasmania.
ANTHONY LAWRENCE (LOCAL) ANTHONY LAWRENCE has published 12 books of poems. His most recent collection, Bark, was shortlisted for the 2008 Judith Wright Calanthe Award and The Age Book of the Year Awards. His individual poems and books have won many major awards, and his poetry has been translated into German, Japanese, Spanish and Slovenian. The Welfare of my Enemy, a verse novel, is forthcoming. He is currently completing a PhD on the poetry of Richard Hugo.
ANNA KERDIJK NICHOLSON (LOCAL) ANNA KERDIJK NICHOLSON’s first book, The Bundanon Cantos, was mentioned in The Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Books of 2003. She runs a Sydney law firm.
DEVIN JOHNSTON (INTERNATIONAL) DEVIN JOHNSTON is the author of three books of poetry, including Sources. He is currently a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Creaturely and Other Essays will be released in September 2009. Devin published a book of literary criticism, Precipitations: Contemporary American Poetry as Occult Practice in 2002. He co-directs Flood Editions, an independent publishing house, and teaches at Saint Louis University, Missouri.
ROBERT ADAMSON (LOCAL) ROBERT ADAMSON has published over 20 books of verse and prose, from early writing as a poet maudit to more recent work exploring the landscape of the Hawkesbury River.
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