Liz Winfield (born 1964) is a contemporary Australian poet and editor.

Biography

Liz Winfield was born in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1964 and attended Mount Carmel College.[1] In 1999 she instigated the Republic Readings in Hobart and has coordinated them ever since. She is a poetry editor for Famous Reporter and the young persons' liaison officer for the Fellowship of Australian Writers' Tasmanian branch.[2]

Winfield's collection Too Much Happens appeared from Cornford Press in 2003.[3] Her second collection, Catalogue of Love – a chapbook from Walleah Press[4] – was launched at the Tasmanian Poetry Festival in Launceston in October 2006.[5]

In 2010 she won the Norma and Colin Knight Poetry Award.[1]

Bibliography

  • Too Much Happens (Cornford Press, 2003)[6][7]
  • Catalogue of Love (Walleah Press, 2006)[8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Liz Winfield". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  2. ↑ Oxford Companion to Australian Literature. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  3. ↑ Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  4. ↑ Walleah Press. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  5. ↑ Tasmanian Poetry Festival. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  6. ↑ Pierce, Peter (14 June 2003). "New poetry". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  7. ↑ Bantick, Christopher (30 March 2003). "A place in the dark". Sunday Tasmanian. p. T17. ProQuest 351982133.
  8. ↑ Bantick, Christopher (12 November 2006). "Poems' intimate relationships". Sunday Tasmanian. p. A2. ProQuest 351929630.
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