Louise Crisp

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Louise Crisp (born 1957) is a contemporary Australian poet.

Louise Crisp lives in East Gippsland (Victoria) with her partner and two daughters. Her first collection was The luminous ocean, a shared volume with Valery Wilde's In the Half-Light. She has published several more books of poetry and worked, among other occupations, as a fire tower watcher on which she has written in Pearl & sea fed. This volume was shortlisted for the 1995 C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry.

[edit] Works

Poetry

• The luminous ocean. (Friendly Street Poets, 1988)
• Pearl & sea fed. (New Zealand: Hazard Press, 1994) ISBN 0-908790-79-1
• Ruby Camp: A Snowy River series. (Melbourne: Spinifex Press, 1998) ISBN 1-875559-83-3
• Three golden fish. (Wind and Water Press, 2004) ISBN 0-9585422-8-7

[edit] External links

• 3 poems
• 6 poems
• River poem at Deep South

[edit] References

• thylazine.org

Persondata
NAME	Crisp, Louise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Contemporary Australian poet
DATE OF BIRTH	1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Omeo, Victoria Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH