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Australian Poetry Resources Internet Library
The University of Sydney Library
University of Sydney, NSW 2006
AUSTRALIA
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Professor Elizabeth Webby has been researching Australian literature since the early 1960s. She is the author, editor or coeditor of a dozen books. For twelve years she also edited Australia’s oldest literary journal, Southerly. In 2007 she retired from the position of Professor of Australian Literature and Director of the Australian Studies program at the University of Sydney.
Dr Creagh Cole is the 2007 John Anderson Senior Research Fellow in the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, and the Coordinator of the Sydney Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS) at the University of Sydney Library. He has many years of experience in preparing archival electronic editions of humanities texts. The SETIS digital collections of Australian literary and historical texts have provided primary source texts for Australian Studies students since 1997, both as online editions and as print publications available through Sydney University Press.
Ross Coleman
Michael Lijic is the project manager for APRIL at Copyright Agency Limited (CAL). Michael is responsible for coordinating CAL’s involvement in the project, and overseeing the delivery of CAL’s project functions, ie: contacting and liaising with authors, negotiating remuneration rates with rightsholders; drafting contracts, agreements, and providing general legal advice on copyright issues; collecting and distributing royalty payments; and, providing IT consulting in areas such as Digital Rights Management (DRM) and Digital Object Identifier (DOI) technology. Michael has been employed at CAL since 1995 and has worked in various areas within the company — most recently as an Account Manager in the Digital Services team. Michael has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from UNSW, and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management.
Jim Alexander
Ross McCaul
John Tranter devised and published the prototype for APRIL in 2004, and now acts as a part-time consultant on the project. He has published more than twenty collections of verse. His collection of new and selected poems, Urban Myths: 210 Poems: New and Selected (University of Queensland Press, and Salt Publishing, Cambridge UK) won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for poetry in 2006 and the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for poetry in 2007. In 1992 he edited (with Philip Mead) the Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry, which has become the standard text in its field. He has lived at various times in Melbourne, Singapore, Brisbane and London, and now lives in Sydney, where he is a company director. He is the editor of the free Internet magazine Jacket at http://jacketmagazine.com/ and has a 500-page homepage at http://johntranter.com/.
Elizabeth Allen is a PhD student in Australian Studies at the University of Sydney. Her PhD is on the topic of ekphrasis: the representation of the visual arts in Australian poetry. The research that she conducts for her thesis will contribute to the body of material available on the APRIL site. She edited Hermes while an undergraduate at the University of Sydney and graduated from that institution with honours in Australian Literature. As well as managing a bookshop she has worked in sales and production at Vagabond Press. Her poetry has appeared in several Australian literary magazines and a chapbook of her work has been published: Forgetful Hands (Vagabond Press, 2005).
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