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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