Born: Established: 1964 Dover, Geeveston - Dover area, Huon Valley, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania, ;
Gender:
Female
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Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2024 shortlisted Blake Poetry Prize for 'Taking You Home'.
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2018
recipient
Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships
Literature Arts Projects For Individuals and Groups $50,000.00
- 2011 Australia Council Literature Board Grants — Grants for Developing Writers $40,000 for poetry writing.
Awards for Works
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Chasing Marie Antoinette All Over Paris
Fitzroy North
:
Black Pepper
,
2020
20915464
2020
selected work
poetry
'Adrienne Eberhard’s new collection Chasing Marie Antoinette all Over Paris forges connections between past and present, public and private, and human and non-human, exploring what it means to be truly at home in the world, whether her beloved Tasmania, France or Indonesia. Ranging in subject matter from native grasses, ducklings and footy games, to cave paintings, family and 9000 years-deep ancestry, she draws on personal, as well as cultural, history to investigate possibility, love and loss. With their focus on the small and the precious, these poems draw our attention to what is often overlooked, enabling us to see the extraordinary in the ordinary.
'She demonstrates how well she can move from sensual evocation of place to tenderness and love of the human. This is a book whose language, because of its precision and sensuality, does justice to a wide range of experiences. Eberhard’s poems seem expounded wholly from both body and spirit.
Judith Beveridge, Westerly' (Publication summary)
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The Voice of Water : An Exploration of the Ephemeral Life of Wetlands in Miniature Paintings and Poems
Tasmania
:
Adrienne Eberhard
Sue Lovegrove
,
2019
25287159
2019
selected work
poetry
'The Voice of Water is a collection of 30 miniature paintings and poems which celebrate and pay homage to the beauty and ephemeral life of wetlands, by artist, Sue Lovegrove and poet, Adrienne Eberhard. With exquisite attention to detail Lovegrove and Eberhard reveal the fragility and fleeting nature of life at the heart of a lagoon - the embrace of its reaches, the constantly shifting light patterns, its melancholy darkness and the movement of wind imprinting on both water and the feathery expanse of grasses as well as the sound track of place from frog call to the tapping of insect legs and grasses. The intimacy and intensity of the miniature form used throughout the book draws the reader into observing the miniscule things that are often overlooked and unseen while simultaneously evoking a grander scale bringing the vision and experience of water into a micro moment. In our increasingly climate-stressed environment, water is becoming more ephemeral and transient. This book is a timely reminder of the preciousness of wetlands, their richness, fecundity and the life they support, is because of the presence of water.
'All the miniature paintings are reproduced actual size, either 8 x 12 cm or 8 x 24 cm. The publication is an object of beauty and contemplation that encourages people to slow down and spend time considering the aesthetics of life in water.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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This Woman
Fitzroy North
:
Black Pepper
,
2011
Z1809564
2011
selected work
poetry
'In This Woman Adrienne Eberhard's themes of gardens and nature, fecundity, random illness and cycles of renewal, explore the vital connections that develop between people and place. Ranging from the D'Entrecasteaux Channel to Canton, Papua New Guinea and Kew and from the eighteenth century to the present, these poems investigate ways in which physical places create mental and emotional spaces fundamental to human needs. Poems about motherhood and children; birds and animals; Aboriginal hand stencils, and love poems that draw connections between geography and the human body, give us an intimate view of our earthly presence. The title poem adds a plangency and raw tenderness to work which reminds us of what it means to be human, and in particular, a woman.hen Adrienne Eberhard assumes the persona of Jane, Lady Franklin, wife of the colonial Governor Sir John Franklin, she releases herself as a poet of intimate engagements. In a suite of poems, linked together like a chain of ponds, she follows Jane Franklin's Tasmanian years. Water, rocks, fossils, step daughters, desire or guilt and betrayal, and love of the physical world seethe in her lines.' Source: http://blackpepperpublishing.com/ Sighted 03/05/2012).
- 2013 shortlisted Tasmania Book Prizes Tasmanian Literary Awards — Tasmania Book Prize
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