Bronwyn Lea’s debut collection of daringly executed and finely drawn poems, in language deeply sensuous, intelligent and alive with wit. Lea’s poetry has earned her acclaim in the Australian poetry scene and she is also in demand at poetry readings throughout Australia. She has won numerous awards including the Somerset Poetry Award and the Queensland Premier’s Award.
Bronwyn Lea’s debut collection of daringly executed and finely drawn poems, in language deeply sensuous, intelligent and alive with wit. Lea’s poetry has earned her acclaim in the Australian poetry scene and she is also in demand at poetry readings throughout Australia. She has won numerous awards including the Somerset Poetry Award and the Queensland Premier’s Award.
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Bronwyn Lea is the author of four books of poems: Flight Animals; The Wooden Cat and Other Poems; The Other Way Out; and The Deep North: A Selection of Poems. Her poems are widely anthologised, appearing most recently in Thirty Australian Poets, Australian Poetry Since 1788, Sixty Classic Australian Poems, and The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry.
As Poetry Editor at the University of Queensland Press her list included award-winning titles by Australia’s most distinguished poets – David Malouf, John Tranter, Laurie Duggan, John Kinsella, and many others. In 2011 she was appointed the inaugural editor of Australian Poetry Journal.
Bronwyn reviews poetry, fiction and non-fiction for a number of literary pages, and she is a Politics and Society columnist at The Conversation. She lives in Brisbane and teaches literature and writing at the University of Queensland.
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