J. S. Harry

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J. S. Harry (or Jan Harry; born 1939) is a contemporary Australian poet who has been described as “one of Australian poetry’s keenest satirists, political and social commentators, and perhaps its most ethical agent and antagonist.”[1]

J. S. Harry was born in South Australia, but soon moved to Sydney when she has remained.[2] Among she has worked as an editor for Radio National and has held a residency at Australian National University. A recurrent character in her work is Peter Henry Lepus, a rabbit who name-drops philosophers such as Bertrand Russel, Ludwig Wittgenstein and A. J. Ayer while popping up in the midst of topical events such as the Gulf War.[1] His satirical “clear-eyed vision of the world, and the humans that inhabit it, is that of an Everyrabbit, with its endless simplicity, trepidation and curiosity.”

Among other accolades J. S. Harry has won the Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry, the Poetry Society’s Book of the Year, the PEN International Lyne Phillips Poetry Prize and the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry.[2] Her most recent work is Not Finding Wittgenstein (2007) a ‘collected works’ of Peter Henry Lepus.

[edit] Works

Poetry

  • The Deer Under the Skin (1971)
  • Hold for a Little While, and Turn Gently (1979)
  • A Dandelion for Van Gogh (1985)
  • The Life on the Water and the Life Beneath (Sydney: Angus & Robertson/Paperbark, 1995) ISBN 0-207-18453-4
  • Selected Poems (Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin, 1995) ISBN 0-14-058755-1
  • Sun Shadow, Moon Shadow (Sydney: Vagabond, 2000) ISBN 0-9578378-1-X
  • Not Finding Wittgenstein (Giramondo, 2007) ISBN 978-1-920882-20-4

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Brennan, Michael (n. d.). J. S. Harry. Poetry International Web. Retrieved on 2007-11-04.
  2. ^ a b J S Harry: Contents page. Australian Poetry Resources Internet Library (n. d.). Retrieved on 2007-11-04.

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NAME Harry, J. S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jan Harry
SHORT DESCRIPTION Contemporary Australian poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH South Australia, Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH


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