Craig Powell (poet)

Craig Powell (born 1940) in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia is an Australian poet. For ten years, he lived in Canada before returning to his homeland.

Powell graduated in medicine from Sydney University and later specialised in Psychiatry. From 1972 to 1982, he lived in Canada where he trained with the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis. He now lives in Sydney, Australia where he is a psychoanalyst in private practice and a visiting medical officer in Mental Health, at the Prince of Wales Hospital.

He has published 8 collections of poetry. More recently he published chapbooks The Poem As A Place (September 2004) and Poems For A Marriage (July 2008) through Picaro Press.

He won the 1983 Mattara Newcastle Poetry Prize and was a co-winner of the 45th International Poetry Competition (1989) organized by the Quarterly Review of Literature, Princeton, New Jersey. He has had poems included in The Best Australian Poetry 2007 and in New Oxford Book of Australian Verse.

Publications

 * A Country Without Exiles (1972)
 * Music and Women's Bodies (Five Islands Press, 2002)