Judith Rodriguez

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Judith Rodriguez (born 1936) is a contemporary Australian poet.

Judith Rodriguez was born in Perth and grew up in Brisbane. She has published numerous volumes of poetry, some illustrated by her own woodcuts, edited an anthology and the collected poems of Jennifer Rankin. During the 1990s she was a poetry editor with the publisher Penguin Australia. The play Poor Johanna, co-written with Robyn Archer, was produced in 1994 and her libretto for Moya Henderson's opera Lindy, about the Azaria Chamberlain disappearance, was performed at the Sydney Opera House in 2002.^[1] She is a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award and currently teaches at Deakin University.

[edit] Works

Poetry

• Nu-Plastik Fanfare Red. (1973)
• Water Life. (UQP, 1976) ISBN 0702213225 review
• Shadow on glass. (Canberra: Open Door Press, 1978)
• Witch heart. (Melbourne: Sisters, 1982) ISBN 0908207646
• Mudcrab at Gambaro’s. (UQP, 1980) ISBN 0702215732
• New and selected poems: The house by water. (1988) ISBN 0702221384

Edited

• Mrs Noah and the Minoan Queen. (Melbourne: Sisters, 1983)
• Jennifer Rankin: Collected Poems. (UQP, 1990)

[edit] External links

• 6 poems at Thylazine
• Interview from The Hindu
• Review of Lindy

[edit] References

1. ^ Lindy. Opera Australia (2002). Retrieved on 2007-10-14.

• Judith Rodriguez at Thlazine Foundation

Persondata
NAME	Rodriguez, Judith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Judith Catherine Green (Pen name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Contemporary Australian poet
DATE OF BIRTH	1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Perth, Western Australia, Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH