Lisa Gorton | |
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Born | 1972 |
Occupation | Poet and novelist |
Language | English |
Nationality | Australian |
Years active | 1993- |
Notable works | The Life of Houses |
Notable awards | 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Awards – Fiction |
Lisa Gorton (born 1972) is an Australian poet, novelist, literary editor and essayist. [1] She is the author of three award-winning poetry collections: Press Release, [2] Hotel Hyperion, [3] and Empirical. [4] Her second novel, The Life of Houses, received the NSW Premier's People's Choice Award for Fiction [5] and the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction (shared). [6] Gorton is also the editor of Black Inc's anthology Best Australian Poems 2013. [7]
Gorton was educated at the University of Melbourne and at University of Oxford. [8] At Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, Gorton completed an MPhil in Renaissance Literature and a DPhil on John Donne. [8] She received the John Donne Society Award for Outstanding Publication in Donne Studies. [9]
In 1994 she was awarded the inaugural Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize. [10]
Having previously worked as poetry editor for the Australian Book Review, Gorton was selected as ABR Poet of the Month in October 2019. [11] [12] Gorton has contributed essays to the Australian Book Review [11] and the Sydney Review of Books. [13] As of 2021 [update], she is poetry editor of Island Magazine. [14]
She is the granddaughter of the former Prime Minister John Gorton. [10]
Gorton's poetry has been widely anthologised, including in The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry, [15]The Best Australian Poems series (2008, [16] 2009, [17] 2010, [18] 2011, [19] 2012, [20] 2014, [21] 2015 [22]), Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry, [23] the Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry, [24] the Poetry Magazine May 2016 selection of Australian poetry, edited by Robert Adamson, with photographs by Juno Gemes, [25] and online anthologies Poetry International [8] and lyrikline. [26] Her poetry can also be found online at Cordite magazine. [27]
Gorton's essays have been published in the Sydney Review of Books [28] and Australian Book Review, [29] and in the essay collection Australian Face. [30] Gorton wrote the introductory essay for the Text Classics reissue of Christina Stead's novel The Little Hotel. [31] She also wrote the catalogue essay for Izabela Pluta's artwork Apparent Distance in the 2019 exhibition The National at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. [32]
Gorton is interested in ekphrastic poetry. She has composed a series of poems for Izabela Pluta's artist's book Figures of Slippage and Oscillation. [33] She has also written ekphrastic poems for the catalogue of the 2010 Adelaide Biennial of Contemporary Art Before and After Science, [34] for the exhibition Conversations in Ellipsis, [35] and for the Melbourne Now limited edition volume from the National Gallery of Victoria. [36]
Gorton gave a poetry reading at TEDx Sydney in 2010. [37]
Gorton's awards for poetry include the Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry, [29] the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize, [9] and the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal. [38] Her novel The Life of Houses was awarded the New South Wales Premier's People's Choice Award, and the Prime Minister's Fiction Prize. [5]
Her poetry books have also been shortlisted in the Prime Minister's Prize for Poetry, [39] the Mary Gilmore Poetry Prize, [40] the Melbourne Prize for Literature Best Writing Award, [40] and the NSW Premier's Poetry Award. [41]
On Empirical
Jessica Wilkinson, poet and editor of Rabbit magazine, interviewed Gorton about her poetry collection Empirical, noting Lisa's interest in "how a feeling for place originates". [50] In the Sydney Review of Books, poet and critic Michael Farrell suggests that Gorton's poetry collection Empirical offers "models of 3D thought", remarking that "Gorton reanimates - and translates - historical textual materials into contemporary poetry", and that her work "performs as an antidote to nationalist ideology". [51] In The Sydney Morning Herald, James Antoniou writes: "an important voice is breaking through here: assured, polyphonic and, for all its quietness, visionary". [52]
On The Life of Houses
In the Sydney Review of Books, Kerryn Goldsworthy writes about Gorton's debut novel The Life of Houses: [53] "One of the main reasons for Gorton's status as a highly respected, prize-winning Australian poet is her unique and personal angle of vision on the world. It's something that, as Auden surmises, cannot be taught…For Gorton it seems not so much a matter of finding le mot juste as of making something entirely new: not merely choosing the word or naming the non-verbal thing it represents, but of using metaphor to create a new and separate third entity in which a word or phrase brings an inchoate, intangible feeling, sensation or memory out of the shadows and into the sunlight of consciousness."
Individual poems have been published in HEAT, [54] Poetry, [55] The Best Australian Poems 2008, [16] The Best Australian Poems 2009, [17] The Best Australian Poems 2010, [18] and The Best Australian Poems 2012. [20]
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Lisa Gorton | |
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Born | 1972 |
Occupation | Poet and novelist |
Language | English |
Nationality | Australian |
Years active | 1993- |
Notable works | The Life of Houses |
Notable awards | 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Awards – Fiction |
Lisa Gorton (born 1972) is an Australian poet, novelist, literary editor and essayist. [1] She is the author of three award-winning poetry collections: Press Release, [2] Hotel Hyperion, [3] and Empirical. [4] Her second novel, The Life of Houses, received the NSW Premier's People's Choice Award for Fiction [5] and the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction (shared). [6] Gorton is also the editor of Black Inc's anthology Best Australian Poems 2013. [7]
Gorton was educated at the University of Melbourne and at University of Oxford. [8] At Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, Gorton completed an MPhil in Renaissance Literature and a DPhil on John Donne. [8] She received the John Donne Society Award for Outstanding Publication in Donne Studies. [9]
In 1994 she was awarded the inaugural Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize. [10]
Having previously worked as poetry editor for the Australian Book Review, Gorton was selected as ABR Poet of the Month in October 2019. [11] [12] Gorton has contributed essays to the Australian Book Review [11] and the Sydney Review of Books. [13] As of 2021 [update], she is poetry editor of Island Magazine. [14]
She is the granddaughter of the former Prime Minister John Gorton. [10]
Gorton's poetry has been widely anthologised, including in The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry, [15]The Best Australian Poems series (2008, [16] 2009, [17] 2010, [18] 2011, [19] 2012, [20] 2014, [21] 2015 [22]), Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry, [23] the Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry, [24] the Poetry Magazine May 2016 selection of Australian poetry, edited by Robert Adamson, with photographs by Juno Gemes, [25] and online anthologies Poetry International [8] and lyrikline. [26] Her poetry can also be found online at Cordite magazine. [27]
Gorton's essays have been published in the Sydney Review of Books [28] and Australian Book Review, [29] and in the essay collection Australian Face. [30] Gorton wrote the introductory essay for the Text Classics reissue of Christina Stead's novel The Little Hotel. [31] She also wrote the catalogue essay for Izabela Pluta's artwork Apparent Distance in the 2019 exhibition The National at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. [32]
Gorton is interested in ekphrastic poetry. She has composed a series of poems for Izabela Pluta's artist's book Figures of Slippage and Oscillation. [33] She has also written ekphrastic poems for the catalogue of the 2010 Adelaide Biennial of Contemporary Art Before and After Science, [34] for the exhibition Conversations in Ellipsis, [35] and for the Melbourne Now limited edition volume from the National Gallery of Victoria. [36]
Gorton gave a poetry reading at TEDx Sydney in 2010. [37]
Gorton's awards for poetry include the Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry, [29] the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize, [9] and the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal. [38] Her novel The Life of Houses was awarded the New South Wales Premier's People's Choice Award, and the Prime Minister's Fiction Prize. [5]
Her poetry books have also been shortlisted in the Prime Minister's Prize for Poetry, [39] the Mary Gilmore Poetry Prize, [40] the Melbourne Prize for Literature Best Writing Award, [40] and the NSW Premier's Poetry Award. [41]
On Empirical
Jessica Wilkinson, poet and editor of Rabbit magazine, interviewed Gorton about her poetry collection Empirical, noting Lisa's interest in "how a feeling for place originates". [50] In the Sydney Review of Books, poet and critic Michael Farrell suggests that Gorton's poetry collection Empirical offers "models of 3D thought", remarking that "Gorton reanimates - and translates - historical textual materials into contemporary poetry", and that her work "performs as an antidote to nationalist ideology". [51] In The Sydney Morning Herald, James Antoniou writes: "an important voice is breaking through here: assured, polyphonic and, for all its quietness, visionary". [52]
On The Life of Houses
In the Sydney Review of Books, Kerryn Goldsworthy writes about Gorton's debut novel The Life of Houses: [53] "One of the main reasons for Gorton's status as a highly respected, prize-winning Australian poet is her unique and personal angle of vision on the world. It's something that, as Auden surmises, cannot be taught…For Gorton it seems not so much a matter of finding le mot juste as of making something entirely new: not merely choosing the word or naming the non-verbal thing it represents, but of using metaphor to create a new and separate third entity in which a word or phrase brings an inchoate, intangible feeling, sensation or memory out of the shadows and into the sunlight of consciousness."
Individual poems have been published in HEAT, [54] Poetry, [55] The Best Australian Poems 2008, [16] The Best Australian Poems 2009, [17] The Best Australian Poems 2010, [18] and The Best Australian Poems 2012. [20]
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