Joanne Burns

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Joanne Burns (born 5 December 1945 ) is a contemporary Australian poet and prose writer, with a strong emphasis on performance in her work.

Biography

Joanne Burns grew up and lives in Sydney. She studied at the University of Sydney and has taught English and creative writing at secondary and tertiary levels in Australia and England. Her work hovers between poetry and prose, and often incorporates 'found writing' from newspapers and other everyday sources. In the 1980s she participated in the experimental writing group Sydney Women Writers' Workshop. She has published ten collections of poetry, with Footnotes of a hammock sharing the 2005 Judith Wright Award for a collection of poetry.

Bibliography

Critical studies and reviews

• Review of Amphora.
• review of 'Footnotes of a Hammock', by Gig Ryan, The Age, 16 October 2004 *[1]
• Pushing Boundaries: Mark Roberts reviews amphora by joanne burns, Rochford Street Review, March 2013 *[2]
• Surreal Inventiveness: Peter Kirkpatrick launches ‘brush’ by joanne burns, Rochford Street Review, November 2014 *[3]

External links

• Joanne Burns Content Page Poems & essays at Australian Literature Resources
• Market Forces Template:Webarchive Poem at Tinfish Magazine
• Johnny Come Lately Poem with German translation
• nightmarketing Poem at Haiku Review
• rules for poems (involuntary collaborations) at magicdog.com

References

• Adelaide, Debra (1988) Australian women writers: a bibliographic guide, London, Pandora

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