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"Andrew Sant writes intellectually compelling
and formally taut poems ... made possible when an exceptional facility
with language collides with everyday subjects."
Brian Henry, Poetry Nation Review
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Andrew Sant
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Andrew Sant was born in London and educated there and in Melbourne after his family migrated to Australia.
His poems have been widely published in journals and anthologies.
He is the author of ten collections of poems, including Brushing the Dark (Heinemann,
Australia, 1989) Album of Domestic Exiles (Black Pepper,
Australia, 1997) and Russian Ink (Black Pepper,
Australia, 2001) His book-length sequence of poems The Islanders (Shoestring
Press, UK), appeared in 2002. More recent publications: The Unmapped Page: Selected Poems (Arc,
UK, 2004);Tremors: New and Selected Poems (Black Pepper,
Australia, 2004).
Andrew served as editor of Island magazine for ten years.
He is a former member of both the Literature Board of
the Australia Council and the Tasmanian
Arts Advisory Board. In 2001 he was
writer-in-residence at the University
of Peking in Beijing, China. In 2003
he was Writing Fellow at Leicester University,
UK. He's been invited to read his work
in numerous countries, including China, Germany,
Italy, Malta, New Zealand, Sweden and
the United Kingdom.
"The poems are witty, acerbic, intelligent ... Russian Ink is
a rich collection complete – there seems no other word for it – with
muscular verse which dances through the pages."
Nicolette Stasko, Southerly
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Bibliography
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Lives, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1980
The Caught Sky, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1982
The Flower Industry, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1985
Brushing the Dark, William Heinemann, Melbourne, 1989
Album of Domestic Exiles, Black Pepper, Melbourne, 1997
Russian Ink, Black Pepper, Melbourne, 2001
The Islanders, Shoestring Press, Nottingham UK, 2002
The Unmapped Page: Selected Poems, Arc, UK, 2004
Tremors: New and Selected Poems, Black Pepper, Australia, 2004.
Last updated:
5 November, 2004
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