Barbara Temperton Barbara Temperton i(A66701 works by)
Also writes as: Barbara Brandt
Born: Established: 1955 Subiaco, Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Barbara Temperton lives in Albany, Western Australia teaching English at the University of Western Australia's Albany Centre. She has completed an English postgraduate diploma at Curtin University, an English and Comparative Literature Degree at Murdoch University and a Creative Writing Degree at the University of Western Australia. Temperton has worked as a box office clerk, a tutor and an Arts Centre caretaker. In 1990, she was the Literature Officer at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre. She has published and broadcast fiction, poetry and nonfiction in journals, newspapers, anthologies and on the radio. Temperton has received many commendations as well as winning a number of prizes for her work.

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Awards for Works

The Lighthouse Keeper's Wife i "Not an ordinary lighthouse,", 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 50 no. 2005; (p. 199-200) At Caversham and Other Poems 2006; (p. 4-5) The Best Australian Poetry 2006 2006; (p. 85-87) Hidden Desires 2006; (p. 81-83) Motherlode : Australian Women's Poetry 1986 - 2008 2009; (p. 215-216) "22" 2009; (p. 17)
2002 winner Tom Collins Poetry Prize
y separately published work icon Going Feral Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2002 Z945374 2002 selected work poetry
2002 winner Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Poetry
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