Vicki Raymond Vicki Raymond i(A16100 works by) (a.k.a. Vickie Kathleen Irwin; V. K. Raymond)
Also writes as: Ruth Raven
Born: Established: 1949 Daylesford, Daylesford area, Creswick - Daylesford area, Ballarat - Bendigo area, Victoria, ;
Gender: Female
Expatriate assertion Departed from Australia: 1981
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BiographyHistory

Vicki Raymond is the daughter of a Tasmanian mother and a South Australian father. She spent her childhood years in Adelaide, South Australia and then moved to Tasmania with her parents in 1965 where they lived in various country towns (including Geeveston) and in Hobart. Raymond graduated from the University of Tasmania with a BA (Hons.) and then worked as the editor of University News before moving to the United Kingdom in 1981. In London she worked at the Australian High Commission as a finance clerk and developed her poetry writing skills.

In 1987 Raymond was one of four poets to represent Australia at the Struga Poetry Evenings in Yugoslavia. Some of the poems in her collection Small Arm Practice have been set to music by English composer Patrick Morris. Raymond's poetry has been described as 'tough-minded in its content and its formal severity' in Australian Poetry in the Twentieth Century ed. Robert Gray and Geoffrey Lehmann (1991).

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Holiday Girls and Other Poems Sandy Bay : Twelvetrees Publishing , 1985 Z396594 1985 selected work poetry
1986 winner Commonwealth Poetry Prize Best First-Time Published
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