Gregory Day

Gregory Day is an Australian novelist, poet and musician.

Life

Gregory Day is a novelist, poet and musician based in Victoria, Australia. He is best known for his Mangowak novels, which document generational, demographic and environmental change on the 21st century coast of southwest Victoria, Australia. He has also been acclaimed for his musical compositions and recordings, notably his settings and singing of the poetry of William Butler Yeats on the album The Black Tower", and his project The Flash Road", which narrates, in a sung and highly literary musical style, the building of the Great Ocean Road in southwest Victoria in the years following The Great War.

Awards and nominations

• Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best First Book, 2006: The Patron Saint of Eels - shortlisted
• Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, 2006: The Patron Saint of Eels - winner
• New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, 2008: Ron McCoy's Sea of Diamonds: A Novel - shortlisted
• Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, 2011: "The Neighbour's Beans" - winner

Bibliography

Novels

• The Patron Saint of Eels (2005)
• Ron McCoy's Sea of Diamonds (2007)"
• The Grand Hotel (2010)"
• Archipelago Of Souls (2015)*

Artist Book

• visitors - with Jiri Tibor Novak 2012
• A Smile At Arm's Length - with Jiri Tibor Novak 2016

Poetry

• Six Different Ways (1999) - with Kieran Carroll and Michael Farrell etc.
• Trace (in collaboration with photographer Robert Ashton) (2003)
• "A Smile At Arm's Length" (2016)

Music

• Untitled Red: No Evangelism (1992)
• Barroworn: Mangowak Days (1995)
• The Black Tower: Songs From The Poetry Of WB Yeats (1998)
• Trace soundtrack with Silver Ray (2003)
• The Flash Road: Scenes From The Building Of The Great Ocean Road (2005)
• "ampliphones" (2014)

Interviews

• "ABC Radio National Books and Arts" July 2015
• "ABC Radio National Book Show" - 21 May 2008

Selected Newspaper Features and Literary Criticism

• Tabucchi's Marmalade In The Hotel Doma on Crete"
• Through The Prism Of Ancient Practice"
• Betraying The Loch"
• On Michael Schmidt's The Novel"
• Remembering Liam Davison"
• The Submerged Moon - Nora Webster by Colm Toibin"
• Arthur Streeton In Lorne"
• To Know Calvino"
• Walter Benjamin A Critical Life"
• On Chris Andrews and Roberto Bolano"
• Tove Jansson"
• Song Of The Magpie"
• A Duty To Jenny"
• Pathways Of Cezanne and Morandi"
• Searching For The Real Kafka"
• Black Inc Anthologies 2014"
• On Robert Adamson"
• Hovering Around A Tiny Island Paradise"
• "H Is For Hawk"