Craig Powell Craig Powell i(A26048 works by) (a.k.a. John Craig Powell)
Born: Established: 16 Nov 1940 Wollongong, Wollongong area, Illawarra, South Coast, New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: 29 Apr 2022 Ryde, Ryde - Gladesville - Hunters Hill area, Northwest Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Craig Powell graduated in Medicine from the University of Sydney in 1964 and from the New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry in 1970. He later went on to run a private psychotherapy practice in Sydney. He spent the years between 1972 and 1982 residing in Canada.

Powell contributed lyrics to a musical score by Moya Henderson, Nembutal Rock (1974). As well as the awards listed on AustLit, Powell won the Quarterly Review of Literature 45th Anniversary International Poetry Competition in 1989.

Most Referenced Works

On the Web

Australian Poetry Library logo Australian Poetry Library Author Entry

Personal Awards

Awards for Works

Five Pieces for a Homecoming 1983 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Instructions for Honey Ants and Other Poems 1983; (p. 106-110) Completely Surrounded : Thirty Years of the Newcastle Poetry Prize 1981-2011 2011; (p. 42-48)
1983 winner Mattara Poetry Prize
Tree and River Bank i "Dead jacaranda flowers are more beautiful", 1970 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , April no. 33 1970; (p. 69-70) Best Poems of 1970 : Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards 1971 , vol. 23 no. 1971; (p. 92) A Country Without Exiles : Poems 1972; (p. 69) Echoes of Henry Lawson 1981; (p. 76) Minga Street : New and Selected Poems 1993; (p. 14-15)
1969 winner Grenfell Henry Lawson Festival of Arts Awards — Award for Verse
Four Portraits 1964 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , December no. 1 1964; (p. 14-15)
1964 winner Poetry Australia Prize
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Known archival holdings

University of New South Wales Australian Defence Force Academy Australian Defence Force Academy Library (ACT)
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