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Jaya Savige Jaya Savige i(A71380 works by)
Born: Established: 1978 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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Jaya Savige grew up on Bribie Island, Moreton Bay, Queensland. In 2001 he was awarded the University Medal for an Honours degree in English, and went on to complete a Master of Philosophy in Creative Writing. He has been a tutor at the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland and in 2007 was a writer in residence at the B.R. Whiting Studio, Rome. He has served as poetry advisor to the Australian Literary Review. In 2009 he began his PhD on James Joyce as a Bill and Melinda Gates Scholar at Cambridge University. In 2020 he was a lecturer at New College of the Humanities in London, UK, where we was head of Creative Writing and poetry editor for the Australian newspaper.

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2013 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships Six month residency at the Keesing studio, Paris, 3 February - 28 July 2014
2008 poetry Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship
2008 recipient Lord Mayor's Young and Emerging Artists Fellowships
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Change Machine St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2020 18931789 2020 selected work poetry

'Tough and alert, Savige's shapeshifting poems reflect the world in violent transformation. Bodies scarred by history collide in the ruckus of generations, geopolitics and technology. Elegies on the loss of a child appear alongside poems that set a pulse to new life, biomedical surveillance, leaf blowers, fatbergs, mechanical pets and military coups. A work of fiercely intelligent artistry, Change Machine is shaped, equally, by feeling - its wild originality comes from how it forces the two together.' (Publication summary)
2021 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Poetry
2021 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Judith Wright Calanthe Award
2021 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance
2021 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
y separately published work icon Surface to Air St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2011 Z1802846 2011 selected work poetry 'Surface to Air, evolving over a period of five years from 2006 to 2011, is an impressive follow-up to Savige's extremely successful debut Latecomers. It charts Jaya's various poetic influences during this period, which have included David Malouf, Peter Porter, Les Murray and Giuseppe Ungaretti.

'While many of the poems in latecomers, concerned the history and landscape of Bribie Island, where Savige grew up, this collection is about leaving the island and as such, it signals a departure from Latecomers.

'The title, Surface to Air, conveys the central themes of the collection, which include: the archaeological exposure of history, both personal and cultural, to the present; the struggle for literal inspiration, (a title of one of the poems) in contemporary life, with issues ranging from consumerism to personal grievance and loss; the ubiquity of violence, and the relationship between actual violence and the simulacrum of violence and war (connoted by the phrase "surface-to-air missile"); among others. It is also an invitation to be mindful of the surface effects of language.' (From the publisher's website.)
2012 shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award — Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize
2011 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Poetry
2012 longlisted ASAL Awards — ALS Gold Medal
y separately published work icon Latecomers St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2005 Z1213117 2005 selected work poetry

'Winner of the prestigious Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, Jaya Savige’s latecomers is a first collection of poems by one of Australia’s most exciting young poets. Lively, playful, and always intelligent, Savige’s poems show an awareness of place, of the inescapability of history, and a personal commitment to the precision of language. ‘The poems in latecomers go beyond what we take for granted these days in a first collection: refinement of language and cadence, allusiveness, wit. Moving easily through abstract wonders and the streets of the inner city, they return for nourishment to family and ‘the Island’ – Bribie, its fishing-life and beaches – as a test always of what is native and endures’ – DAVID MALOUF' (Publication summary)
2006 shortlisted Queensland Premier's Literary Awards — Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry
2006 highly commended ASAL Awards — Mary Gilmore Award for a First Book of Poetry
2006 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
2004 winner Queensland Poetry Festival Awards — Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript
2006 shortlisted Australian Capital Territory Poetry Prize — Judith Wright Award for a Published Collection by an Australian Poet
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