Mark O'Connor (writer)

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Mark O'Connor (born March 19, 1945 in Melbourne ) is an Australian poet .

O'Connor studied English at the University of Melbourne and then taught English literature at the University of Western Australia and the Australian National University . He published his first poems in 1972. In the following years he won several prizes, including the Biennial Poetry Australia International Prize (1973), the British Commonwealth Short Story Prize (1979), the Kenneth Allsop Memorial Award of the London Times (1980), the Tom Collins Poetry Prize and the South Pacific ACLALS Short Story Prize (1983).

From 1977 to 1980 he traveled through the Mediterranean, particularly Greece and Italy. In 1983 he worked as writer-in-residence at James Cook University , Monash University , the University of New South Wales and the State Library of New South Wales. In 1984 and 1985 he received a scholarship to write the National Parks of New South Wales. In 1986 he went on a month-long reading tour of Great Britain on behalf of the British National Poetry Society . In 1987 he was the Thomas Ramsay Science and Humanities Scholar at the Museum of Victoria .

O'Connor has lived in Canberra since 1988. In 1989 he founded the authors' group WESP with Judith Wright , Dorothy Green and Anne Edgeworth . In 1990 he created the Canberra Song Cycle with the musician Judith Clingan . As a representative of Australia, he took part in the 1991 World Congress of Poets . He had other stays abroad as part of bilateral exchange programs in China (1990) and India (1995). In 1994 he became a Humanities Research Fellow at the University of Oregon and the following year he became the poetry editor of the Canberra Times . In 2000 he was commissioned to write poetry for the Summer Olympics in Sydney. In the same year he opened the annual conference of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English and was guest of honor at the Sydney Poetry Festival .

Works

  • Reef Poems , 1976
  • The Eating Tree , 1980
  • Modern Australian Styles , 1982
  • Words on Paper: An Introduction to Alphabetic Theory , 1983
  • Fiesta of Men , 1983, 1984
  • Poetry in Pictures: The Great Barrier Reef , 1986
  • Selected Poems , 1986
  • Two Centuries of Australian Poetry (Hsg), 1986, 1996
  • Poetry of the Mountains , 1988
  • The Ship Trans-Time , 1989
  • The Great Forest , 1989
  • Firestick Farming: New and Selected Poems 1972-90 , 1990
  • Nature of Australia , 1990
  • This Tired Brown Land , 1998

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SURNAME O'Connor, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian lyric poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne