Born: Established: 1974 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender:
Male
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BiographyHistory
Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2019 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships — Literature Arts Projects For Individuals and Groups $20,160
- 2011 Australia Council Literature Board Grants — Residencies $18,000 for a six-month residency at the Whiting Studio, Rome, 3 February 2012 - 27 July 2013.
- 2010-2011 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship — Poetry
Awards for Works
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The Ladder
Glebe
:
Puncher and Wattmann
,
2015
9036582
2015
selected work
poetry
'The Ladder is Simon West’s third collection of poetry, and his first in four years. Many earlier preoccupations return—the natural environment, Italian art, the dimensions of place. There is a new focus on worldly and artistic responsibility, and a fascination with the ‘certain poise’ of ‘being in between’. At the collection’s heart are the building blocks of language, along with the more literal ones of Rome, where some of these poems were written during a residency at the Whiting studio in 2012.' (Publication summary)
- 2016 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Poetry
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The Yellow Gum's Conversion
Glebe
:
Puncher and Wattmann
,
2011
Z1872581
2011
selected work
poetry
These new poems from Simon West centre, for the most part, on landscape: the actual, the figurative, the local, the European. With a sure feeling for place (especially forest), The Yellow Gum's Conversion brings together observation and emotional weather, using language that is direct but also characterized by knowing omissions and, in the words of one poem, "trails built in the mind". Simon West is a poet with a rare symbolic imagination and a sense of phrasing all of his own.
- 2012 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Judith Wright Calanthe Award
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