Philip Mead

Philip Mead (born 1953) is an Australian poet and academic.

Life
Mead was born in Brisbane in 1953. He was educated in Queensland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He graduated from Australian National University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1975, and received an M.A. from La Trobe University in 1981, and a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne in 1990.

He began writing poetry in the early 1970s, and participated small press Open Door Publishing, and helped establish the poetry journal Canberra Poetry. He was poetry editor for Meanjin between 1987 and 1994, and in 1981 co-edited the Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry.

Recognition
In 2010 his book Networked Language: Culture & History in Australian Poetry' won the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Literary Scholarship.

Poetry

 * Songs from Another Country: poems. Canberra: Open Door Press, 1975.
 * Be Faithful Go: poems. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1980.
 * The Spring-Mire: poems. Canberra: Brindabella Press, 1982.
 * The River Is In The South. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1984.

Non-fiction

 * Networked Language: Culture & History in Australian Poetry. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2009 (2nd edition, 2010).

Edited

 * ''Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry (with (John Tranter). Penguin, 1991.
 * Teaching Australian Literature: from Classroom Conversations to National Imaginings (edited with Brenton Doecke and Larissa McLean Davies). Adelaide: AATE/Wakefield, 2011.

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy the Australian Poetry Library.