Andrew Taylor (poet)
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Andrew Taylor was one of the leading Australian poets of the 1970s. Although he lacks the public profile of several of his contemporaries, he has since come to be regarded as a major figure in Australian poetry, with a body of work notable for its intelligence and its formal, emotional and geographical diversity.
He was Born in Warrnambool, Victoria in 1940. Educated at the University of Melbourne, Taylor moved to Adelaide in 1970 where he taught at the English Department at the University of Adelaide, mainly in American Literature, and co-founded the ongoing poetry reading group Friendly Street Poets. In 1992 he became Foundation Professor of English at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia. He has been a member of the South Australian Arts Grants Advisory Committee, the Australian Society of Authors Management Committee and acting chairperson of the Literature Board of the Australia Council. In addition, he has been Chairperson of Writers' Week at the Adelaide Festival of the Arts, and was one of the founders of Adelaide's Friendly Street poetry readings, and the South Australian Writers' Centre.
Taylor was the regional winner of the British Airways Commonwealth Poetry Prize for his 1986 book, Travelling. His 1995 book of poetry, Sandstone, won the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards for poetry for that year, and Götterdämerung Café. was shortlisted in 2002. In 2005, Salt Publishing published Andrew Taylor's Collected Poems, bringing together his entire body of work, as well as new poems written between 2000 - 2003.
He taught for many years at the University of Adelaide, was recently made an Emeritus Professor at Edith Cowan University, and is a Member of the Order of Australia.
[edit] Works
- The Cool Change (1971)
- Ice Fishing (1973)
- The Invention of Fire (1976)
- The Cat's Chin and Ears (1976)
- Parabolas: Prose Poems (1976)
- The Crystal Absences, the Trout (1976)
- Number Two Friendly Street (co-editor with Ian Reid) (1978)
- Selected Poems (1960-1980) (1982)
- Travelling (1986)
- Reading Australian Poetry (1987) (criticism)
- Folds in the Map (1991)
- Sandstone (1995)
- Götterdämerung Café (2001)
- Collected Poems (2004)
- Rome (2005)
- Regret about the Wolves and other poems (2006)
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| NAME | Taylor, Andrew |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Contemporary Australian poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia |
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