Komninos Zervos
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Komninos (aka Komninos Zervos) Born 15/12/1950 Richmond Victoria Australia
Performance poet
[edit] Publications
The Komninos Manifesto, Fat Possum Press, poetry collection, print 32 pages, 1985
The Second Komninos Manifesto, Fat Possum Press, poetry collection, print 32 pages, 1986
The Last Komninos Manifesto, Koala Munga Press, poetry collection, print 32 pages,1987
Wordsports, Koala Munga Press, rule manual for word games, print 32 pages, 1989
My Friends, Koala Munga Press, Audio Recording of Poems, 7 inch e.p. vinyl disc, 1989
High Street, Kew East, Collins/A&R, children's illustrated picture book, print colour 30 pages, Illustrator, Reynolds, Diana, 1990
komninos, University of Queensland Press, poetry collection, print 86 pages, 1991
komninos, University of Queensland Press, Audio Recording of Poems, 30 minute audio cassette, 1991
The Baby Rap and other poems, Oxford University Press, children's illustrated poetry collection, print 106 pages, Illustrator, Viska, Peter, 1992
The Venus of Marrickville, Koala Munga Press, metapoem/play in verse, print, , 1993
komninos by the kupful, University of Queensland Press, poetry collection, print 112 pages, , 1995
CyberPoetry, Koala Munga Press, CyberPoetry - digital multimedia animated poetry, CD-ROM 650mb, 1995
CyberPoetry Website Archive, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/tep/10267, 13th May, 1997 onwards.
CyberPoetry Website, http://www.griffith.edu.au/ppages/k_zervos/
CyberPoetry Underground, Koala Munga Press, CyberPoetry - digital multimedia animated poetry, CD-ROM 650mb, 1998
Underground, Website, http://live-wirez.gu.edu.au/Staff/Komninos/Underground/entry.html, 2005.
[edit] Awards
1991 Australian Human Rights Commission Award for Literature for book of poetry, Komninos, UQP.
1992 Australia Council/Ros Bower Community Artist of the Year.
1997 Prix Ars Electronica, Austria, .Net Award, Highly Commended.
2001 Electronic Literature Organisation Literature Award for poetry, Runner-up.
[edit] Articles on Komninos
Geoff Page's A Reader's Guide to Australian Poetry, UQP, 1995, pages 161 - 164.
William Wilde's Australian Poets and their Works: A reader's guide.]], Oxford, 1996, pages 140 - 141.
Wilde, Hooton and Andrews The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, second edition, Oxford,1994, page 439.
