P. R. Hay P. R. Hay i(A5847 works by) (a.k.a. Peter R. Hay; Pete Hay; Peter Robert Hay)
Born: Established: 1947 Wynyard, Wynyard - Somerset area, Northwest Tasmania, Tasmania, ;
Gender: Male
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P. R. Hay is a Tasmanian poet with strong interests in politics, history and the environment. He has worked in the Ministry for Environment and Planning and taught environmental studies at the University of Tasmania.

Hay has written in the areas of the environment, politics, poetry, short stories and Australian Studies. His work has appeared in numerous Australian and international journals and magaines, including Overland, Island, Cinema Papers, Australian Journal of Politics and History, and Current Affair Bulletin.

He won the Percy Grainger Award in 1982 and the Henry Savery Award in 1987.

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon I Shed My Skin : A Furneaux Islands Story Lindisfarne : Forty South Publishing , 2020 19563266 2020 single work autobiography

'I Shed My SkinA Furneaux Islands Story evolved out of an exhibition of Jane Giblin’s artwork which toured Tasmania in 2019. It revolves around strangers who come to a remote land and learn how to win a living from it. Traditions and relationships to the Furneaux Islands, built since the 1890s, were consolidated across five generations. During the latter part of the twentieth century significant changes had to be met. 

'Giblin travelled up and down the eastern seaboard of Australia interviewing her father’s cousins in addition to some senior Furneaux community members. She knew there was art to be made and stories to tell from their island lives. She sought memories of her great grandparents, feelings about the islands, and farming and birding as well as how they were acclimatizing to changed land access and tradition due to successful land rights claims by local First Nations people. 

'Giblin’s part-collaborator on her exhibition and book is retired lecturer in geography and well-known Tasmanian writer, Pete Hay. Hay accompanied Giblin on some of her visits to people and island places of significance; his wit, grit and heart providing a rich sounding board. His poetry and prose add significantly to Jane’s observations and artwork in this beautifully presented publication.'

(Source: publisher's blurb)

2022 longlisted Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History
2022 longlisted Tasmania Book Prizes Tasmanian Literary Awards Premier's Prize for Non-fiction
y separately published work icon Forgotten Corners : Essays in Search of an Island's Soul North Hobart : Walleah Press , 2019 18862974 2019 selected work essay

'Pete Hay is pre-eminent among the guardians of Tasmania’s island’s spirit, his fierce intelligence and compassionate heart resisting those who would ravage, exploit and appropriate its natural beauty, cultural creativity and fraught history for profit and power. Animals and ancestors, people and plants, the lost and the loved, the humus and the human, the artist and the artefact, the books and the birds, the sadness and the stillness, the past and the possible, the humour and the horror all find voice in 'Forgotten Corners'. ' (Publication summary)

2022 longlisted Tasmania Book Prizes Tasmanian Literary Awards Premier's Prize for Non-fiction
2020 winner Small Press Network Book of the Year Award
y separately published work icon Physick Nottingham : Shoestring Press (UK) , 2016 11580611 2016 selected work poetry
2017 shortlisted Tasmania Book Prizes Tasmanian Literary Awards Tasmania Book Prize
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