Judith Beveridge

Judith Beveridge (born 1956) is a contemporary Australian poet, editor and academic. She is a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award.

Biography

Judith Beveridge was born in London, England,[1] arriving in Australia with her parents in 1960. She started her education at the Auburn North Public School in September 1961, and graduated in 1968 as "Dux of the School" (a title awarded to the student with best aggregate result over all subjects).[2] Completing a BA at UTS she has worked in libraries, teaching, as a researcher and in environmental regeneration.[3] From 2003 until 2018, she taught creative writing at The University of Sydney[4] and was poetry editor for Meanjin from 2005[5] to 2015,[6] having previously edited Hobo and the Australian Arabic literature journal Kalimat.

Awards and nominations

• 1988 – Mary Gilmore Award for The Domesticity of Giraffes[7]
• 1988 – New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for The Domesticity of Giraffes[8]
• 1988 – Victorian Premier's Literary Award, C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry for The Domesticity of Giraffes
• 1997 – Wesley Michel Wright Prize[9]
• 2003 – The Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize[10]
• 2004 – Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Poetry Collection – Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award for Wolf Notes[11]
• 2005 – winner of the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal at the Mildura Writer's Festival[12]
• 2013 – Christopher Brennan Award[13]
• 2015 – Peter Porter Poetry Prize[14]
• 2015 – New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, shortlisted, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for Devadatta's Poems.[15]
• 2019 – Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Poetry for Sun Music[16]
• 2023 – Australian Catholic University Prize for Poetry for "Two Houses"[17]

Bibliography

• The Domesticity of Giraffes (Black Lightning, 1987) ISBN 0-949561-08-8
• A parachute of blue : first choice of Australian poets. Number one, with Jill Jones & Louise Katherine Wakeling (Round Table Publications, 1995) ISBN 0-646-22003-9
• Accidental Grace (UQP, 1996) ISBN 0-7022-2872-9
• How to Love Bats, and Other Poems (Picaro Press, 2001)OCLC: 57312733
• Wolf Notes (Giramondo, 2003) ISBN 1-920882-00-6
• Storm and Honey (Giramondo, 2009) ISBN 978-1-920882-56-3
• The Best Australian Poetry 2006, with Martin Duwell & Bronwyn Lea (UQP, 2006) ISBN 0-7022-3568-7
• Sun Music: New and Selected Poems (Giramondo, 2018) ISBN 978-1-925336-88-7
• Tintinnabulum, (Giramondo, 2024) ISBN 978-1-923106-05-5

Articles

• Beveridge, Judith. (2001). Four Ascetics, The Literary Review, 45, no. 1, (2001): 152

References

1. Australian Poets and Their Works, by William Wilde, Oxford University Press, 1996.
2. Selina Samuels (July 2006). Australian writers, 1975-2000. Thomson Gale. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-7876-8143-2. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
3. "Biography at Australian Literature Resources". 3 July 2007. Archived from the original on 27 October 2006.
4. "JUDITH BEVERIDGE". 2019 Queensland Poetry Festival. 24 June 2019. Archived from the original on 7 August 2019. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
5. "Beveridge, Judith - Poet - Australian Poetry Library". www.poetrylibrary.edu.au. Archived from the original on 28 February 2020. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
6. "Sweetness". Meanjin. 18 March 2018. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
7. "Association for the Study of Australian Literature: Mary Gilmore Prize for the best first book of poetry". 3 July 2007. Archived from the original on 1 July 2007.
8. "NSW Ministry for the Arts: Premier's Literary Awards". 3 July 2007. Archived from the original on 5 October 2007.
9. "Australian Centre Literary Awards - Wesley Michel Wright Prize in Poetry". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 21 October 2023.
10. "Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize". 3 July 2007. Archived from the original on 30 August 2007.
11. "Queensland Premier's Literary Awards". 26 June 2007. Archived from the original on 13 August 2007.
12. "Mildura Writers' Festival, Thursday 20 – Sunday 23 July 2006". Arts Festival 07 Mildura/Wentworth. Archived from the original on 8 June 2007. Retrieved 4 August 2007.
13. ""Judith Beveridge Honoured with the Christopher Brennan Award"". Giromondo Publishing, 22 April 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
14. "Beveridge wins Peter Porter Poetry Prize". Books+Publishing. 15 May 2015. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
15. "New South Wales Premier's Awards" (PDF). SL Magazine. 8 (4): 35. Summer 2015.
16. "Winners announced for PM's Literary Awards 2019". Books+Publishing. 23 October 2019. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
17. "Beveridge wins $10k ACU Poetry Prize". Books+Publishing. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2023.

External links

• 4 poems at Thylazine
• Several poems Archived 18 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine at Poetry International Web