Rhyll McMaster. Courtesy National Library of Australia.
Rhyll McMaster (born 1947) is a contemporary Australian poet and novelist.
Life[]
McMaster was born in Brisbane. She has worked as a secretary, a nurse and a sheep farmer. She lives in Sydney, and has written full-time since 2000.
Her poems have been appearing in Australian publications since she was 16. On My Empty Feet was published in 1993 and poems from that selection were broadcast as a play for radio by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1996. Flying the Coop, New and Selected Poems, 1972-1994, was awarded the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1994. Chemical Bodies, A Diary of Probable Events, 1994-1997 was published in 1997. Her first novel, Feather Man was published in Australia by Brandl & Schlesinger in 2007 and in the UK, US & Canada by Marion Boyars Publishers, 2008.
McMaster has also been employed as poetry editor by The Canberra Times and as a book reviewer by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian.
Recognition[]
Her first book of poetry, The Brineshrimp, 1972, won the Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry; Washing the Money, 1986, was awarded the C.J. Dennis Prize for Poetry and the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry.
Her first novel, Feather Man, was awarded the inaugural 2008 Barbara Jefferis Award and the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, 2008. It was shortlisted for the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, Victorian Premier's Literary Award, 2007 and for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, 2008 for an outstanding literary work.
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- The Brineshrimp. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1972.
- Washing the Money: Poems with photographs. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1986.
- also published as Washing the Money. Warners Bay, NSW: Picaro Press, 2008.
- On My Empty Feet. Port Melbourne, Vic: Heinemann, 1993.
- Experiments and Games of Chance (illustrated by Helen Geier). Canberra: privately published by Helen Geier, 1994.
- Flying the Coop: New and selected poems, 1972–1994. Port Melbourne, Vic: Heinemann, 1994.
- Chemical Bodies: A diary of probable events. Rose Bay, NSW: Brandl & Schlesinger, 1997.
- Evolutionary History of Edward Kelly in Primary Colours. Canberra: Nolan Gallery / Canberra School of Art, 1999.
- The Elegant Rabbit, and other poems. Warners Bay, NSW: Picaro Press, 2003.
- Late Night Shopping. Blackheath, NSW: Brandl & Schleisinter, 2012.
Novels[]
- Feather Man. Blackheath, NSW: Brandl & Schlesinger, 2007; London & New York: Marion Boyars, 2008.
Except where noted bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[1]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ Search results = au:Rhyll McMaster, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Nov. 27, 2014.
External links[]
- Poems
- 3 poems
- Rhyll McMaster (1947- ) in the Australian Poetry Library (359 poems).
- Prose
- An excerpt from the novel Feather Man from Marion Boyars.
- Audio / video
- About
- Rhyll McMaster Official website.
- Review of Feather Man from Australian Book Review
- Review of Feather Man from Brisbane Times
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