Rod Usher Rod Usher i(A25219 works by) (a.k.a. Roderick MacLeod Usher)
Born: Established: 1946
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas,
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Gender: Male
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1 Between the Lines Rod Usher , single work poetry
1 y separately published work icon The Bare Hook Rod Usher , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2022 24290726 2022 selected work poetry

'The Bare Hook is Rod Usher's fourth collection. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines and anthologies, including Best Australian Poems 2015, the Proverse Prize anthology (Hong Kong) 2021, Best Australian Love Poems, the Grieve Prize anthology, the Newcastle Poetry Prize anthology 2020, and the ACU Prize anthology, where in 2021 a poem in this collection, 'Marginal Notes', won a $1,000 award. The late Les Murray, who published some twenty of Usher's poems, said of his earlier collection, Smiling Treason, 'I laughed out loud at times, I inwardly cried at other times.' Usher, who grew up in Melbourne, is a former literary editor of The Age and senior writer and editor for TIME magazine in Europe. He lives in Extremadura, Spain. He has also published three novels, most recently Poor Man's Wealth (HarperCollins).' (Publication summary)

1 First Hotel Rod Usher , 2017 single work prose
— Appears in: Just Off Message : A 20th Year Anthology 2017; (p. 252)
1 Red Red Wine Rod Usher , 2017 single work prose
— Appears in: Just Off Message : A 20th Year Anthology 2017; (p. 250)
1 Losing, Lost Rod Usher , 2017 single work prose
— Appears in: Just Off Message : A 20th Year Anthology 2017; (p. 249)
1 On-Off Rod Usher , 2017 single work prose
— Appears in: Just Off Message : A 20th Year Anthology 2017; (p. 248)
1 Mozart Also Played Billiards i "Evening, I sit staring blindly at the dying sun", Rod Usher , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Joy : Poems from the 2017 ACU Prize for Poetry 2017; (p. 76-77)
1 Yesterdays i "They think they can just slip away", Rod Usher , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May vol. 80 no. 2017;
1 The Imperfect i "Trying to live with the imperfect:", Rod Usher , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 6 no. 1 2016; (p. 53)
1 Ho's Secret Weapon i "Hindsight, as one of Kubrick's cast", Rod Usher , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 74 no. 2 2015; (p. 28-29) The Best Australian Poems 2015 2015;
1 Grace i "Allowed from the millions just one", Rod Usher , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , May vol. 59 no. 5 2015; (p. 31)
1 Five Fine Frogs i "Five fine frogs in the swimming pool", Rod Usher , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , May vol. 59 no. 5 2015; (p. 23)
1 The Third Eye i "To call a spade a spade", Rod Usher , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 4 no. 2 2014; (p. 22-23)
1 Joaquin Sorolla Museum, Madrid i "Teacher looks too young for motherhood", Rod Usher , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , July - August vol. 58 no. 7/8 2014; (p. 17)
1 Wool Nights i "A loose sheep in a paddock -", Rod Usher , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , April vol. 58 no. 4 2014; (p. 65)
1 The Flat of the Hand i "The flat hand picks no flower,", Rod Usher , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , April vol. 58 no. 4 2014; (p. 37)
1 Plums i "The trees stand wild by the track", Rod Usher , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , April vol. 58 no. 4 2014; (p. 36)
1 y separately published work icon Convent Mermaid Rod Usher , Carindale : Interactive Publications , 2014 7184785 2014 selected work poetry

'Rod Usher's third collection, Convent Mermaid, is full of wit and sadness, love and loss. Many of the poems spring from his long experience as a journalist, novelist and from years of living and working in Europe. As Les Murray has written, Rods poetry inspires both tears and laughter. He's equally at home in poetic conversation with Emily Dickinson, David Bowie and Federico Garcia Lorca, in revisiting Cro-Magnon Man, or portraying the to-and-fro of love and sex. His poems find their feet in Australia, Spain, England and the U.S., their rhyme typically embedded rather than obligatory, though he bows to the tight rules of haiku. Rods poems regularly appear in leading literary magazines such as Island, Meanjin and Quadrant, as well as in various anthologies, including Australian Love Poems and the UKs Aesthetica Annual. His most recent novel is Poor Man's Wealth (HarperCollins, 2011), a title which, not surprisingly, comes from a poem."' (Publication summary)

1 Rin Tin Latin i "How well works interlaced Latin,", Rod Usher , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poems 2013 : Volume of the Australian Poetry Members Anthology 2013; (p. 88-89)
1 Words i "Leap without thinking", Rod Usher , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , July/August vol. 57 no. 7/8 2013; (p. 82)
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