Born: Established: 1966 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender:
Female
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Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2024 finalist The Joanne Burns Award — National category
- 2023 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships — Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups
- 2003 Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships Towards completion of her second collection of poetry Bridges and Verandahs.
Awards for Works
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A Bud
Elwood
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John Leonard Press
,
2006
Z1323896
2006
selected work
poetry
'These poems are spare, in the tradition of imagism, from haiku through to surrealism and since; and they are oblique, worked between logic and illogic.
'The voice, among this, is lucid to hear. It is playful and wise; its reflections take the daily things and emotions, with a background of rural Victoria in some of the imagery; and its rhythms feel fresh to a syllable.
'There is no modish nervousness towards language's impotence. Claire Gaskin, in a style that she formed by the mid-eighties, keeps a modernist confidence in expressiveness. The poems here have been matured from two to twenty years, with an artist's instinct not to hurry. The words seem incised on the page for a long term.
'A bud was shortlisted for the John Bray Prize in the 2008 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.' (Publication summary)
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