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Libby Hart was a recipient of a D J O’Hearn Memorial Fellowship at The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne in 2003. Her suite of poems, Fresh News from the Arctic won the Somerset National Poetry Prize in 2005. Her first collection of poetry, also called Fresh News from the Arctic, was published in 2006 by Interactive Press and received the Anne Elder Award as part of the 2006 FAW National Literary Awards.


  

Publications (etc.)


Books: Fresh News from the Arctic, Interactive Press, 2006, Brisbane   ORDER NOW!!!

Anthologies: Poetry without Borders, Picaro Press, 2008. Sunweight: 2005 Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology, Hunter Writers Centre, 2005, Newcastle West. In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself - Volume 5, Marlowe Pearse Weaver (ed.), M W Enterprises, 2004, USA. From the Anabranch, Poets' Union, 2002, Sydney. Poets' Union Anthology, 1999, Sydney. Poets' Union Anthology, 1998, Sydney.

Journals (etc.): I Like the Way You Talk (poetry), holland1945, Issue One, 2008. Bird on Stonewall, Night Country, The North (poetry), Divan, Vol. 7, 2008. Planting a Weeping Birch (poetry), Poetica: Life without Rain, ABC Radio National, 22 March 2008. Spirit Photography (poetry), Crannog, Issue 17 (Spring 2008), Ireland. The Anatomy of Clouds (poetry), Poetica: Upon Clouds, ABC Radio National, 15 December 2007. Sleepless Dreaming, Your Body Bare, Flux, Light (poetry), Mascara, April 2007, Australia. Once Upon (poetry), The Argotist Online, February 2007, United Kingdom. Bloom (poetry), foam:e, Issue 4 (2007), Australia. Rimbaud at 15 (poetry), Shadow Train, Issue 11 (December 2006), United Kingdom. Between, Darwin's Walk, Inheritance (poetry), Bluepepper, September 2006, Australia. Concealment (poetry), The Age (newspaper), June 2006, Melbourne. Blindness, Sylph, Circumnavigation, Gallop (poetry), Retort Magazine, 2005, Sydney. Venezia, Insomnia, Blake (poetry), Talvipaivanseisaus Specials, 2004/05, Finland. What I Know, Fire Season (poetry), Poetry Salzburg Review, Issue No. 7/Winter 2004/05, Austria. Zebra (poetry), Snow Monkey, 2004, USA. A Vision of Her, Origami (poetry), SALT-LICK New Poetry, Spring 2004, Melbourne. Art/Life (poetry), Radio NAG, 20 June 2004, Queensland. Storm (poetry), Poetrix, Issue 22, 2004, Melbourne. Safe Passage (poetry), Polestar, Edition 3 2004, Brisbane. Human Remains (non-fiction), Meanjin, Issue 1, 2004, Melbourne. Winter Solstice (poetry), Polestar, Issue 2 2004, Brisbane. Home from the Middle East, 1942 (poetry), Divan, Vol. 5/6, 2004, Melbourne. Mist (poetry), Muse Magazine, March 2004, Canberra. Inventory (poetry), The Australian (newspaper), 20 March 2004. New Ring (poetry), Polestar Issue 1 2003/04, Brisbane. He Shall Hear in Heaven (poetry), Radio NAG, 30 November 2003, Queensland. The Gunshot Symphony (fiction), Meanjin, Issue 4, 2003, Melbourne. Human Violin (poetry), Radio NAG, 26 October 2003, Queensland. Unravel, Perfume (poetry), Hermes, 2003, Sydney. After Sei Shonagon (poetry), Egg, Issue, 1, 2003, Bairnsdale. Samuel Beckett's Wrinkles (poetry), Eureka Street, July/August 2003, Richmond. Unfolding, Homage and Nocturnes (poetry), Voices in the Roses, Issue 1, 2003, UK. A Short History of Early Aviation (poetry), Poetry Monash, Issue 66, 2003, Melbourne. Hands of a Henry Moore Sculpture, The Briefcase Phenomenon, A Train to Bendigo, Unravel (poetry), Retort Magazine, Vol 2, Issue 2 (December 2002/January 2003), Sydney. Monsoon Mechanic (poetry), The Geelong Times, October 2002, Geelong. South, Maison de l'air (poetry), Pelt, Issue 9, February 2003, Victoria. My Father is a Tumbleweed (poetry), Poetica, ABC Radio National, 16 November 2002. Reviews: Books by M Langford & B Copello (non-fiction), Five Bells, Winter Edition, 2002, Sydney. Unearthing Courage (non-fiction), Network, Issue 2, 2002, East Melbourne. January (poetry), New England Review, Issue 16, 2002, Armidale. Botanica (poetry), Tears in the Fence, No.33, 2002, UK. Speaking Gaelic, Angel (poetry), Poetry NZ, Issue 23, 2001, NZ. Caution (poetry), tamba, Issue 27, Autumn 2001, Gippsland. Elephant (poetry), Five Bells, Winter Edition, 2001, Sydney.  Tightrope Walker (poetry), The Sydney Morning Herald (newspaper), October 2001, Sydney. Architect of Desire (poetry), FourW twelve, 2001, Wagga Wagga. Wombat Hill, Daylesford (poetry), LiNQ, Vol. 28 No. 2, 2001, Queensland. Pigeonholes (poetry), Divan, Vol. 4, 2001, Melbourne. Ancestors (poetry), The Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2000, Perth. Water (poetry), Chrysalis, Issue 3, 2000, Bendigo. Family on the Moon, Serpents (poetry), Poetrix, Issue 14, 2000, Melbourne. Man Smoking Cigarette (poetry), Core, No. 8, Autumn 2000, Geelong. Lightning (poetry), The Sydney Morning Herald (newspaper), 2000, Sydney. War Portraits (poetry), Divan, Vol. 3., 2000, Melbourne. X-ray (poetry), Niederngasse, January, 1999, Switzerland. Pour Slowly Into Me (poetry), Cyber Oasis, February, 1999, USA. The Dream Jar, Lightning, Chekhov in Yalta (poetry), Road of Shadows, February, 1999, USA. Cat Woman, Eclipse, Room of Angels, Myopia, Portrait of a Woman Looking Down (poetry), BeeHive, Vol. 2, Issue 2, 1999, USA. Ubiquity, Skin (poetry), Divan, Vol. 2, 1999, Melbourne. Mormons on Monday (poetry), Social Alternatives, Vol 18, No 4, 1999, St Lucia. Penumbra (poetry), Swyntax, Vol. 2, 1999, Hawthorn. Chekhov in Yalta (poetry), tamba, Issue 21, Autumn 1999, Gippsland. The Japanese Wrap Things So Well (poetry), New England Review, Issue 7, 1998, Armidale. Wrappings, The Memory Suite (poetry), Vernacular, Vol. 1, 1999, Victoria. Transmutation (poetry), ars poetica, Issue 6, 1998, Victoria. Sadovky-Kudrinsky Street, Moscow (poetry), Home Brew, Issue 2, February 1998, Sydney. Stepbrother (poetry), &, Issue 6, 1998, Melbourne. Circus Blues (poetry), Centoria Poetry Magazine, Issue 5, Spring 1998, Bendigo. Since Tuesday (poetry), Core, Autumn 1998, Geelong. Cicada (poetry), Chrysalis, Issue 1, 1998, Bendigo. Human Violin (poetry), Pendulum, Issue 2, 1998, Melbourne. Tattoo at Midnight (fiction), Idiom23, December, 1998, Queensland. Transmutation (poetry), Small Packages, Issue 3, 1998, Queensland. Sleepwalking 3 (poetry), Word Salad, Winter 98-99, USA. Auden in a Snowstorm (poetry), Cyber Oasis, Dec 98/Jan 99, USA. Manicure (poetry), The Perfect Diary, 1999, Sydney. Breathless (poetry), The West Australian, 1998, Perth. Breathing Flame into a Day of Roses (poetry), Centoria Poetry Magazine, Issue 2, 1997, Bendigo. The Great Guy (poetry), Spindrift Magazine, Issue 12, June 1997, NSW. Vienna, 1933 (poetry), Red Lamp Magazine, Issue 1, Autumn/Winter 1997, Sydney. Venus Bay; Vienna, 1993 (poetry), Scant Magazine, 1997, Melbourne. Wolf Man (poetry), Kuli Yabber, Issue 1, 1997, Melbourne. The Orchard (poetry), New England Review, Issue 6, 1997, Armidale. Cartography (poetry), fourW eight, 1997, Wagga Wagga. Routine (poetry), Top Dog Journal, Issue 46, 1996, Melbourne. High Tide (poetry), Free XpreSsion, Issue 5, 1996, NSW. Sanski Most, Portrait of a Man with a Red Turban (poetry), Spindrift Magazine, Issue 10, October 1996, NSW. Argument (poetry), Obscure Realms, No. 1, 1996, Victoria. Man as Ghost, My Apology after 4 years of Silence (poetry), Mattoid, Issue 50, 1996, Geelong. Surreal Appeal, Darkness and Light (non-fiction), NEaT, 1996, Sydney. Rebecca's Hands, 1923 (poetry), Australian Multicultural Book Review, Issue 2, 1995, Melbourne.

Prizes: 2007 Varuna Awards for Manuscript Development (Masterclass). Anne Elder Award for Fresh News from the Arctic (collection of poetry), 2006 FAW National Literary Award. 2005 Somerset National Poetry Prize winner for Fresh News from the Arctic (poetry suite). D J O'Hearn Memorial Fellowship, 2003, The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne. 2002 Greater Dandenong National Writing Awards, first prize for The Gunshot Symphony (fiction). 2000 Irish Famine Commerative Literary Prize, first prize for Ancestors (poetry). 1999 Poets' Union Anthology Competition, first prize for Evolution of Mortality (poetry).

Grants: Australia Council Skills & Arts Development Grant (for studio residency at Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland), 2008. Australia Council New Work Grant (emerging), 2004-06.

Festivals/exhibitions: Shoalhaven Poetry Festival, 2002: postcard exhibition, Mist (poetry). Captured Moments - 2004 Daffodil Day Arts Awards: Heirloom (poetry).





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