Rhyll McMaster

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Rhyll McMaster (born 1947) is a contemporary Australian poet and novelist.

Born in Brisbane Rhyll McMaster has lived in Tasmania with her then husband novelist Roger McDonald and now lives in southern New South Wales.^[1] Her first volume of poetry, The Brineshrimp, was published in 1972 and won the Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry. She has since published several volumes of poetry which have been awarded the C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry and the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry, and her recently published novel Feather Man was awarded the inaugural 2008 Barbara Jefferis Award, (Brandi & Schlesinger), and was shortlisted in the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction.^[2][3] McMaster has also been employed by The Canberra Times as a poetry editor and a book reviewer by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian.

[edit] Bibliography

Poetry

• The Brineshrimp (UQP, 1972) ISBN 0702207632
• Washing the Money: Poems with photographs (Angus & Robertson, 1986) ISBN 0207152810
• On My Empty Feet (William Heinemann, 1993) ISBN 0855615222
• Flying the Coop: New and selected poems 1972-1994 (William Heinemann, 1994) ISBN 085561627X
• Chemical Bodies: A diary of probable events, 1994-1997 (Brandl & Schlesinger, 1997) ISBN 187604005X

Novels

• Feather Man (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2007) ISBN 9781876040833

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• 3 poems
• Review of Feather Man from Australian Book Review
• Review of Feather Man from Brisbane Times

Persondata
NAME	McMaster, Rhyll
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Australian poet and novelist
DATE OF BIRTH	1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH