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In March, I was shocked and thrilled to be the joint winner of the 2019 Peter Porter Poetry Prize with Belle Ling. My congratulations to Belle and the other shortlisted poets, John Foulcher, Ross Gillett and Mark Tredinnick. I’d particularly like to thank Morag Fraser and Ivan Durrant for their generous sponsorship of the award and Peter Rose and everybody at Australian Book Review for supporting poetry. At the award ceremony, Judith Bishop commented: “Andy Kissane’s ‘ Searching the Dead ’ recounts a momen
“Rock the Baby”, a poem from a verse novel I’m writing, set at the time of the Vietnam war, was the winner of the Tom Collins Poetry Prize, which was announced at a Voicebox event at the Rose Hotel in North Fremantle on February 26, 2018. My thanks to the hard working people at FAWWA for supporting Australian poetry and running this competition, which takes its title from the pen name of the celebrated Australian author, Joseph Furphy, who wrote Such is Life . My congratulations to all the poets who entered
I recently published two poems in issue 152 of Island magazine. Both are written in the voice of an artist. “Flannel Flowers” responds to a woodcut of the same title by Cressida Campbell, one of my favourite Australian artists, while “The Tomb of the Unknown Artist” was inspired by Grayson Perry’s sculpture, “The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman”, his stunning cast-iron coffin ship that was a memorial to all the unknown craftspeople throughout history who have made beautiful objects that enrich our lives. You
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