Peter Ramm Peter Ramm i(18000969 works by)
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Peter Ramm has worked as a poet and teacher 'on the Gundungarra lands of the NSW Southern Highlands. He has won the South Coast Writer’s Centre Poetry Award and the Harri Jones Memorial Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Bridport, ACU, Blake, and Newcastle Poetry Prizes.' Ramm won the UK's 2021 Manchester Poetry Prize for a collection of three poems: 'The Rainforest in Winter', 'Phaethon in Three Parts' and 'Two Sijo and Tanka in Autumn; Or the Steel City Gardens'.

Ramm's poetry has been published in a range of journals including Cordite, Westerly, Plumwood Mountain, and Eureka Street.

Major source: Vagabond Press website. 

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2021 highly commended Australasian Association of Writing Programs Awards — Chapter One Prize
2021 winner Manchester Poetry Prize Awarded for a collection of three poems: 'The Rainforest in Winter', 'Phaethon in Three Parts' and 'Two Sijo and Tanka in Autumn; Or the Steel City Gardens'. See prize website.
2020 highly commended Tom Collins Poetry Prize for 'Barren Grounds in Late Autumn'.
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Waterlines Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2022 24719043 2022 selected work poetry 'Waterlines is a collection that inhabits the landscapes of Southern NSW, contemplating the complexities of fathering and older questions of being in ecological, political, and social settings of contemporary Australia. The collection explores the way water serves as a repository of human existence in myth and lore, and by extension to our own individual histories. Here the poems trace the geometries of interiority and place through their themes of loss, parenting, the wisdom of the natural world, and the haunting reality of the transience of life. The collection attempts, as Rilke suggests, to approach nature, 'To try, like the first human being, to say what we see and experience and love and lose.' In many forms, the lyric poems of sestets, haiku, sijo, couplets, and cantos, set out to reframe the traditional pastoral. Peter Ramm's first collection is simultaneously an exploration of inheritance, of being, and transmission; a clear-eyed interrogation of our ecological irresponsibility and what we leave the next generation; and finally, a lovesong for the landscapes and life of southeastern New South Wales.' (Publication summary)
2023 shortlisted ACT Notable Awards ACT Literary Awards — Poetry
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