David Gilbey David Gilbey i(A17542 works by)
Born: Established: London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Male
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1 Morgue i "I had no words in that grey, cool room,", David Gilbey , single work poetry
1 A Death by Any Other Name? David Gilbey on the Crisis Facing the Booranga Writers’ Centre David Gilbey , 2024 single work essay
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , vol. 39 no. 1 2024;

'Booranga Writers’ Centre was one of the first of a network of proposed regional writers’ centres in NSW linking e.g. Sydney, Byron Bay, Armidale, Newcastle, Wollongong, Dubbo & Broken Hill. Opened in 1993, Booranga’s distinctive 1896 cottage, on the Wagga Wagga campus of Charles Sturt University, with relative seclusion and close to wine, olives and infrastructure support was a perfect setting for writing (apart from the occasional possum …) Its restoration and make-over, financed by joint contributions of $50,000 from NSW Arts and CSU, created office space, a readings/workshop area and a separate writer’s flat as well as renovated amenities. For some thirty years, funded largely by Create NSW and its predecessors, Booranga has implemented a successful series of writers’ residencies (three or four a year); published an annual anthology of new writing, fourW; collaborated with local educational and arts groups (especially the English Teachers’ Association, the Wagga Wagga City Council and Art Gallery); and fostered the development of regional writers by monthly writing workshops and downtown readings venues.' (Introduction)

1 Dennis Haskell. And Yet … David Gilbey , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 22 no. 1 2022;

— Review of And Yet... Dennis Haskell , 2020 selected work poetry
'And Yet . . ., Dennis Haskell’s ninth collection of poems, is a (late?) string quartet, its four movements attenuating poetic moments, moods and wordplay with poise and emotional intelligence. The first movement ‘Afterwards’ is a jugular-seeking, sonata-form allegro, spinning words around experiences of grieving after the deaths of his wife, his mother and his father-in-law: ‘No matter how blanketed, you can’t get warm / because the blizzard of death is blowing / from within; blood leaches from your body / all the dim day and all through the night’ (‘Go Gently’).' (Introduction)
1 Henry Moss, Australian Women Poets of WW1, Elza de Locre David Gilbey , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 21 no. 1 2021;

— Review of Henry Moss : His Wreath of Song: The Collected Verse of an Early Australian Poet Stephe Jitts , Keith Campbell , Henry Moss , 2020 selected work poetry biography ; Many Such as She : Victorian Australian Women Poets of World War One 2018 anthology poetry biography
1 World Enough i "In Zoom's close but scrutable intimacy", David Gilbey , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: FourW (New Writing) , no. 31 2020; (p. 89-90)
1 y separately published work icon FourW (New Writing) no. 31 David Gilbey (editor), 2020 20879340 2020 periodical issue

'nguluman ... If the river ever gets going, it's only running a little, and the whole thing is never deep enough to fill the wetland and then trickle into the waterhole. They call that one Poisoned Waterholes Creek.' - Tara June Winch, The Yield.

'FourW thirty-one was made possible by a community arts grant from Riverina Water - brokered by our clever Claire Baker - so, as many of you know, the contents has a (non-exclusive) preoccupation with water in some sense - literally or metaphorically. Water can be a source, an end (life & death), a medium, indicative of intense or attenuated pain, pleasure, leakage, (ful)filment ... Geographically, cosmically, emotionally, politically, mathematically, botanically (I could go on ...) water metaphorises the depths, currents, fluidity, typhoons and tsunamis of the human condition. Certainly this has provided a stimulating prompt for writing workshops and both poetic and prosaic experimentation ... The teacher in me wants to invite readers to see how many water motifs, images, references (direct and implied) they can find in the contents. We thank Riverina Water for its commitment to and support for the creative well-being of our regional (writing) communities.' (David Gilbey, Editorial introduction)

1 Gleaner i "Typhoon twenty-six blows me back to Tohoku", David Gilbey , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: FourW New Writing , no. 30 2019; (p. 95-96)
1 David Gilbey Reviews Adam Aitken and Elizabeth Allen David Gilbey , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 89 2019;

— Review of Archipelago Adam Aitken , 2017 selected work poetry ; Present Elizabeth Allen , 2017 selected work poetry

'In a judicious review of two ‘lucid and intelligent books’ on the job of the literary critic* and of a new edition of Eric Auerbach’s Mimesis, Edward Mendelsohn argued against the essential nostalgia of criticism in favour of a version of Kant’s ‘universal subjective’: finding ways to cross ‘the disputed border between popular and elite culture … without pretending it doesn’t exist’. One of the recurring negotiations for the critic – and, I would argue, for the poet – is the difficult business of intimacy: how to inscribe the subjective as both ‘confessional’ (and ‘lyrical’) as well as observational, satirical, evaluative.' (Introduction)

1 Fisheries, Narrandera i "If the past is another country, what do we say", David Gilbey , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Four W New Writing , no. 29 2018; (p. 43)
1 'To Speak of the Woe...' i "The suffering of women is largely ignored", David Gilbey , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: FourW , no. 28 2017; (p. 52-53)
1 Editorial David Gilbey , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: FourW , no. 28 2017; (p. 1-3)

David Gilbey discusses the consequences of the loss of funding and the future of FourW New Writing .

1 2 y separately published work icon FourW no. 28 David Gilbey (editor), 2017 12376898 2017 periodical issue poetry short story

This issue contains more than 50 poems and nearly 20 short stories by local, national, and international writers. 

1 Exhibits of the Sun by Stephen Edgar David Gilbey , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , April no. 20 2017;

— Review of Exhibits of the Sun Stephen Edgar , 2014 selected work poetry
'Edgar’s poetry is like that – detailed, deceptive, minutely crafted, significant and changing – implicating both the watcher and the watched. In Sarah Howe’s ‘Two Systems’ lecture at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute last year, speaking of her own poetry’s slippage between different cultural and historical referents, she cited Heather McHugh’s dictum ‘All poetry is fragment … shaped by its breakages at every turn.’ Edgar’s is like that too: shardish, provisional, ‘hispid’ (to poach one of his clever, obscure words).' (Introduction)
1 Yokozuna i "A magician referee in persimmon robes, black hat,", David Gilbey , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 223 2016; (p. 46)
1 Flag Fall ... Or, Taxi Dancing in Western Sydney i "When he cut me", David Gilbey , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 223 2016; (p. 39)
1 Lucretia i "It wasn't sudden, the rape.", David Gilbey , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , vol. 35 no. 1 2016; (p. 5)
1 Australian Studies Conference, Hachioji, Tokyo i "There are no seats on the shinkansen to Tokyo", David Gilbey , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Verity La , February 2016;
1 2 y separately published work icon Pachinko Sunset David Gilbey , Woodford : Island Press , 2016 9283818 2016 selected work poetry
1 Modernist Apartment David Gilbey , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: FourW New Writing Twenty-Seven , no. 27 2016; (p. 46)
1 Review Short : Frank Russo’s In the Museum of Creation David Gilbey , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 October no. 52.0 2015;

— Review of In the Museum of Creation Frank Russo , 2015 selected work poetry
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