Andrew Burke (poet)

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Andrew Burke
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Burke in 2023
Born(1944-07-27)27 July 1944
Melbourne, Victoria
Died23 May 2023(2023-05-23) (aged 78)
Perth, Western Australia
OccupationWriter
NationalityAustralian
GenrePoetry
Website
hispirits.blogspot.com

Andrew Burke (born 27 July 1944 in Melbourne, Victoria, died 23 May 2023 in Perth) was a contemporary Australian poet. [1] [2]

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Early in his working life, Burke pursued a career in advertising as a copywriter and creative director.

In the 1970s he had received prizes: the Thomas Wardle poetry prize of 1973, [3] and in 1977 the Tom Collins poetry prize. [4]

He switched to academia as a literature and creative writing lecturer in middle age. He received a MA in writing from Edith Cowan University in 2002, and a PhD in writing in 2006.

He has lectured in Australia and China, and read his poetry to audiences of all ages in the United Kingdom, Singapore, China, and throughout Australia.

His poetry has been included in Western Australian and Australian anthologies. [5]

Collections of his poems exist online, [6] [7] and his blog included poetry. [8] [9] Burke died in May 2023. [10]

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Notes

  1. Bladen, Emma Andrew Burke – biography of W.A. poet, Subiaco Post 7 July 1992, p.6 and 55
  2. "Andrew Burke". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
  3. Sir Thomas Wardle Literary Prize Competition 1973, Bunbury Arts Promotion Council, 1973, retrieved 13 May 2019
  4. Darby, Patricia, 1934-; Fellowship of Australian Writers. W.A. Branch (1998), Sudden alchemy : selected Australian poetry, Fellowship of Australian Writers, W.A. Branch, ISBN   978-0-909497-88-0 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. Andrew Burke p.10-11 of Veronica Brady editor (1976)Soundings: a selection of Western Australian poetry Fremantle, W.A. : Fremantle Arts Centre Press
  6. "Foam:e 6 - Andrew Burke".
  7. 'Peripatetica' edition of Landscapes Issue 1, Volume 4 of the International Centre for Landscape and Language at Edith Cowan University – "Latest Journals". Archived from the original on 4 November 2010. Retrieved 19 September 2010.
  8. "Next Monthly Blogger – Andrew Burke!". Southerly. 28 October 2011. Archived from the original on 28 November 2011.
  9. "Home". hispirits.blogspot.com.
  10. https://www.westannouncements.com.au/browse/obituaries/view/burke-andrew, https://www.westannouncements.com.au/browse/funeral-notices/view/burke-andrew-1
  11. Burke, Andrew; Jennings, Murray (1980), [Poetry of Andrew Burke] , retrieved 6 October 2016
  12. Burke, Andrew; Burke, Andrew, 1944-. [Poems. Selections] (1983), On the tip of my tongue : poems, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, ISBN   978-0-909144-75-3 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. Burke, Andrew; Burke, Andrew, 1944-. [Poems. Selections] (1992), Mother waits for father late, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, ISBN   978-1-86368-014-1 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. Reviewed by Bev Braune Poems of Memory Grammar ABR April 1997 pp.57-58
  15. http://www.smashwords.com/extreader/read/163072/1/blue-rose
  16. Mclennan, Rob (14 March 2012). "above/ground press: new from above/ground press: Shikibu Shuffle, a collaboration between Andrew Burke and Phil Hall". above/ground press. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
  17. "The Ruthless Eye: Rae Desmond Jones reviews 'Undercover of Lightness' by Andrew Burke". Rochford Street Review. 16 August 2012. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
  18. Nathan Hondros reviews One Hour Seeds Another in The Rochford Street Review
  19. Pont,AE (14 November 2014), Review Short: Andrew Burke's One Hour Seeds Another and Nicola Bowery's married to this ground, Cordite Press, retrieved 12 March 2019
  20. Burke, Andrew (2016), The line is busy = Zhan xian, Fan, Xing, (translator); 樊星, (translator), Flying Islands Poetry Community; Association of Stories in Macao and Cerberus, ISBN   9789996557064

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