Chris Brown Chris Brown i(A93182 works by) (a.k.a. Christopher Brown)
Also writes as: 'Joe Dimalley-o' ; 'Chase Malley'
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Christopher Brown has lived and worked as a secondary teacher in Newcastle, NSW. His work has appeared in anthologies, and in online journals including Stylus, Cordite, Hutt, Shampoo, Foam:e, Overland, and Snorkel. His poetry also has been included in the Newcastle Poetry Prize and Roland Robinson Literary Award anthologies. He has lived with his family in Lucca, Italy.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2021 shortlisted The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New Terms for Timeless Behaviours
2004 winner Roland Robinson Literary Award for Escarpment

Awards for Works

New Terms for Timeless Behaviours i "Sea's in a building", 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 250 2023; (p. 61-64)
2022 third place The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize
y separately published work icon Hotel Universo Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2020 21070166 2020 selected work poetry

'Exploring relations to place, ways we receive language as we move in the world, and anxieties of communication, hotel universo particularizes the rendered, the middling and ostensibly universal. Written in Newcastle's suburbs and published here its poems reflect and reside in a politics of location. Despite its interest in the transitory, hotel universo, and poetry more widely, is a place we have come to, 'and never left'.' (Publication summary)

2021 shortlisted ASAL Awards Mary Gilmore Award for a First Book of Poetry
Hotel Universo i "Some early crush queues in tents", 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Otoliths , 1 August no. 30 2013;
2017-2018 shortlisted The Noel Rowe Poetry Award
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