John Kinsella is the author of more than twenty books
whose many prizes and awards include The Grace Leven Poetry Prize, the
John Bray Award for Poetry from The Adelaide Festival, The Age Poetry Book
of The Year Award, The Western Australian Premier's Prize
for Poetry (twice), a Young Australian Creative Fellowship from the former
PM of Australia, Paul Keating, and senior Fellowships from
the Literature Board of The Australia Council.
His Poems 1980-1994 and volume of poetry The Hunt (a
Poetry Book SocietyRecommendation) were published in May 1998 by Bloodaxe
in the UK and USA, The Undertow: New & Selected Poems (Arc, U.K), Visitants
(Bloodaxe, 1999), Wheatlands (with Dorothy Hewett in 2000), and The Hierarchy
of Sheep (Bloodaxe/FACP, 2001).
He is theeditor of the international literary journal
Salt, a Consultant Editor to Westerly (CSAL, University of Western Australia),
Cambridge correspondent for Overland (Melbourne, Australia), and International
Editor of The Kenyon Review. A novel Genre was published in1997 (Fremantle
Arts Centre Press) and Grappling Eros in late 1998 (FACP).
He co-edited (with Joseph Parisi) a double issue of Australian
poetry for the American journal Poetry and was appointed the Richard L
Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at KenyonCollege in the United States
for 2001, and where he is now Professor of English. He is a Fellow of Churchill
College, CambridgeUniversity, and Adjunct Professor to Edith Cowan University,
Western Australia.
His work has been or is being translated into manylanguages,
including French, German, Chinese, and Dutch. His new selected poems and
selected experimental poems are forthcoming, as well as a new novel Post-Colonial.
He is senior poetry critic for the Observer newspaper (London).
Regina Derieva was born in the Soviet Union in 1949.
She is the author of nearly twenty books of poems, prose and essays. Since
1999 she lives in Sweden. Her works has been translated into many languages,
including English, French, Swedish, Chinese, and Arabic. Several of Regina
Derieva's poems have been put to music by the Italian composer Armando
Pierucci.
Her books in English translation are Inland Sea and Other
Poems (The Divine Art, South Shields 1998), In Commemoration of Monument
(Art Printing Press, East Jerusalem 1999), Instructions for Silence (Latroun
Abbey, Jerusalem 1999), and The Last Island (Hylaea, Stockholm 2002). English
translations of her poetry has been published inMODERN POETRY IN TRANSLATION,
CROSS CURRENTS, and SALT.
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