Theodore Ell Theodore Ell i(A121073 works by)
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Theodore Ell obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Languages) with First Class Honours in Italian at the University of Sydney in 2006. He is undertook a PhD thesis interpreting the writings of Piero Bigongiari from the years following the Second World War.

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y separately published work icon Beginning in Sight Canberra : Recent Work Press , 2022 23667465 2022 selected work poetry

'Beginning in Sight is Theodore Ell’s first poetry collection. It brings together work written over more than ten years, tapping into the memories, life-stories and mirror-images that resist time and recouple bygone experience to the drifting world of today. The poems branch out from Ell’s original home of Sydney into its hinterland, the coast and the Hunter, snatching moments of respite and pleasure in troubled times, before finding new bearings in the Canberra region. Haunted by the presence of vanished lives and histories, these are poems of perseverance, endurance and a past that seems to know what is coming.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2022 joint winner Anne Elder Award
Facades of Lebanon 2021 single work
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 433 2021; (p. 44-48)

'As the March and April evenings grew hotter, the streets of East Beirut were as empty as our calendars. The grumble of traffic had disappeared. Without the usual smokescreen, the nearby mountains and coastline were visible for weeks. Parks are scarce in Beirut and gardens are private, but this spring, vines and bougainvillea were clambering over the high walls and no one was trimming them. It was possible to take solitary walks and hear birdsong.' (Introduction)

2021 winner The Calibre Prize
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