by George J. Dance
Philip Mead. Photo by Juno Gemes. Courtesy Australian Poetry Library.
Philip Mead (born 1953) is an Australian poet and academic.
Life[]
Mead was born in Brisbane, Queensland, 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.[1]
He began writing poetry in the early 1970s, participated in 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.[1]
Recognition[]
In 2010 his book Networked Language: Culture & history in Australian poetry' won the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Literary Scholarship.[2]
Publications[]
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.
- This 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).[2]
Edited[]
- Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry (edited with John Tranter). Penguin, 1991.
- Teaching Australian Literature: from classroom conversations to national imaginings (edited with Brenton Doecke & Larissa McLean Davies). Adelaide: AATE / Wakefield, 2011.[2]
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy the Australian Poetry Library.
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See also[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Philip Mead (1953- ), Australian Poetry Library, Web, Mar. 15, 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 W/Prof Philip Mead, UWA Staff Profile, University of Western Australia, UWA.edu.au, Web, Mar. 15, 2012.
External links[]
- Poems
- Philip Mead (1953- ) in the Australian Poetry Library (65 poems)
- About
- Pam Brown on Philip Mead's book about Australian Poetry from Jacket #37 (early 2009)
- Ali Alizadeh reviews Philip Mead in the Cordite Poetry Review.
- Etc.
- Papers of Philip Mead, National Library of Australia.
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