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ADDRESS: 10 Cook Street GlebeNSW 2037
PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH: London, 4 August 1960
NATIONALITY: British (Australian resident, mother of Thai background)
PUBLICATIONS
Eighth Habitation, Giramondo Publishing, 2008
Romeo And Juliet in Subtitles, Brandl & Schlesinger, 2000 (96 pages)
In One House, HarperCollins/Paper Bark Press, 1996 (102 pages)
Letter to Marco Polo, Island Press 1985 (64 pages)
Chapbooks
Impermanence.com, Vagabond Press, 2004 (12 pages)
Crossing Lake Toba, Folio/Salt, 1998 (20 pages)
‘The House of Roses’, Griffith Review, Cities on the Edge edition 2008
‘Born on a Sunday in London’, Life Writing Special Issue, edited by Shirley Lim and Maureen Perkins, Routledge, April 7 2007
‘Burning the Books’, Heat (Australia), 2004
‘The Photographs’ Dimsum (Hong Kong), vol. 6, 2002
‘The Photographs’ Post West 17, University of Western Sydney, 2000
‘A Walk in the Cross’, Picador New Writing 4, 1997
‘Confessions of a Sheriff’s Daughter’, Age Monthly Review 1983
Published Refereed Papers
Exegisis for ‘Born on a Sunday in London’, Life Writing Special Issue, vol. 4, no. 1, edited by Shirley Lim and Maureen Perkins, Routledge, March 2007
‘Nicholas Jose’, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 325: Australian Writers 1975-2000, edited by Selina Samuels, 2006
‘Patrizia Dobrez’s ‘Michael Dransfield’s Lives’, Australian Humanities Review, 2000.
Review of M. Rosanna McEvedy, ‘Learning Grammar In Context’, English Association Journal, 1994.
‘Nature and Nurture: The Rose Crossing, by Nicholas Jose’, Southerly, 1994.
Creative Strategies for Global Harmony–Going Beyond Borders, the inaugural meeting of the Asia and Pacific Writers Network (APWN), Melbourne, November 2005.
‘Going Native: G.E. Morrison’s An Australian in China’, ‘Intersections’ conference, University of NSW, School of English, October 2005.
Extract from doctoral project, The Fire Sermon (reading and slide performance). Pigments of the Imagination, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research Visiting Scholars Programme, , Australian National University, November 2004.
‘Crossing over and Cross Dressing: the travel writing of E.A. Morrison and my own’. University of Newcastle: “Critical Animals”–Creative Writing Syposium, 29th September, 2004.
‘Unhappy hybridities: interrogations fo Ethnicitiy in Recent Australian Fiction’, University of Queensland, Transforming Cultures/Shifting Boundaries 30 November–2 December, 2001.
‘Trading in Imagination: Points of Presence’, for Panel: The Asia Quest: Imagining Asia from the Asian-Australian Perspective, University of Wollongong, Trading in Imagination, Creative Arts Conference, 23-25 August 2001
‘Opening Address: Place: Source of the Sacred?’ Australian Catholic University, Literature and Religion Conference, May 1998.
‘The Creole Poetry of Lois-Ann Yamanka and Lionel Fogarty’, Flinders University, South Australia,, Soundings Conference on Spoken Word Poetry, 1997.
Published Literaure Reviews (by Adam Aitken)
‘Adam Aitken Reviews Philip Hammial’, 2004, Cordite: http://www.cordite.org.au/archives/000487.html
‘Four Poets: John Kinsella, Lizz Murphy, Hugh Tolhurst, Barbara Giles & Metre 2, New poetry by Emma Lew, Alison Croggon, and Coral Hull, The Australian, October 1998
Louise Crisp Ruby Camp, Beverley Browne Camouflage, Alan Jefferies Blood Angels & Chris Kelen green lizard manifesto in HEAT,1998
George Alexander Mortal Divide in Australian Book Review, September 1997
March 1999: Phil Ilton: More Than Words, Barnie Roberts: Gone Bush With Horrie and Me,
Australian Review of Books, 1997
Mudrooroo Pacific Highway Blu-booz University of Queensland Press, in The Australian Weekend Review 1996
Isabella Tree Islands in the Clouds, Karen Connelly Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal, Ariel View #7, 1996
John Kinsella The Silo, in Ulitarra, 1995
Grant Caldwell This is For You, Phillip Hammial Just Desserts, Marcelle Freimann The Monkey’s Mask, in HEAT, 1995
Dipti Saravanamuttu Statistic For the New World, in Southerly, 1994
Ann Lloyd The Hips Slither Black, Ken Bolton Talking To You, Louise Wakeling & Margaret Bradstock Small Rebellions, P76, 1984.
PRIZES
2004: Shortlisted, poem of the Millenium, chosen by Andrew Taylor.
2002: Shortlisted, Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles, John Bray Award for Poetry, South Australian Festival Awards
2001: Shortlisted, Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles, Age Poetry Book Award
1998: Co-winner, Australian Olympic Sport Poem Award
1996: Co-winner, Australian Olympic Sport Poem Award
1984: 2nd Prize, Union Recorder Poetry Competition, University of Sydney
COMMISSIONS
Poem and Script for Bicentennial Project exterior sculpture, Centennial Park Trust, 2001
Poem for the Birthday of the King of Thailand, June 1996, sponsored by Department of Foreign Affairs and the Australian Embassy, Bangkok
Poem for Insearch Language Centre, Tenth Anniversary Celebration, November 1996
BIBLIOGRAPHY (works about Adam Aitken, by date)
Nicolas Jose, ‘Adam Aitken’, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 325: Australian Writers 1975-2000, edited by Selina Samuels, 2006
Jose Wendell P. Capili, ‘Sadness from the Tropics: Mediating Southeast Asia and Australia in the Poetry of Adam Aitken and Merlinda Bobis’, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2004.
Lars Ahlstrom, ‘Med eller utan prefix. Mote med tvä asiatisk-australiensiska poete’, Lyrikvännen, 1 2002 (Sweden)
Fiona Probyn, (Interview) ‘Adam Aitken: Second Degree Native Informant’, Meanjin Vol 60, no 2 2001
David McCoohey, ‘Contemporary Poetry Across Party Lines’, The Cambridge Guide to Australian Literature, Elizabeth Webby (ed.) Cambridge University Press, 2000, p. 167.
Sharifah Hamzah, ‘Penchant for Poetry’, The Sun (Malaysia) March 20 1999
Tan Gim Ean, ‘Aussie Poet Looks at Gaps Between Cultures’, New Straits Times 6 January 1999
Geoff Page, A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Australian Poetry UQP 1995
Thomas Shapcott, ‘A Bouquet Rather than a Corsage’ The Age 16 March 1991
Greg Mclaren, ‘Anti-travel: Greg McLaren
review’s Adam Aitken’s Impermanence.com’, Jacket 27, April,
2005, jacketmagazine.com/27/mcla-aitk.html
J.S. Harry, ‘Pirouetting on a Precipice’, Southerly, Vol 62 No 1 2002
Stephanie Bishop, ‘Streetwords’, ‘Out Loud’, The Fine
Print: Newsletter of the UTS Writers Group, No. 2 Spring 2001 pp.1 -3.
Van
Ikin and Darren Jorgensen, ‘Australia’, Journal of Commonwealth
Literature, 2001, Vol. 36 Issue 3, p. 5.
Martin Duwell, (Untitled review of Adam Aitken and Peter Skrzynecki), Heat 15 September 2000
Pam Brown, ‘East of Shakespeare,’ Sydney Morning Herald August 12 2000
Geoff Page, ‘A poet who is difficult to pigeonhole’, Canberra Times, September 16 2000
Gig Ryan, ‘New Language, displaced words’, The Age 18 July 2000
Barry Hill, ‘Measured Meditations’, Weekend Australian, 15 July 2000
Thomas Shapcott , Australian Book Review, July 2000
Katherine Gallagher, Review of Crossing Lake Toba, Poetry Review (UK) Vol 89 No 1 Spring 1999
J.A. Wainright, ‘Poet re-writes the “empire of signs”‘, Antipodes 1998
Jonathan Este ‘Picador New Writing 4’ The Australian’s Review of Books 1997
Martin Duwell, ‘Where Concerns Reside’, The Australian 25 January 1997
‘At Home with New Voices in Australian Poetry’ Ballarat Courier 18 January 1997 p. 34
John Kinsella, ‘Towards a New Canon’, The Australian’s Review of Books 1997
Paul Bradley, ‘Crowded Poetry’, On Dit 1996
Ivor Indyk, ‘A Question of Voice’, Australian Review of Books August 1996
Geoff Page, Review of In One House, Books and Writing, ABC Radio National 6 Sept 1996
Don Anderson, ‘The Frog in the Ecosystem’ 24 Hours ABC Publications 1996
Pam Brown, HEAT No 2 1996
Mandy Sayer, ‘The Pick of the Crop’, The Weekend Review 7 December 1996
Ivor Indyk, ‘Best Books of ‘96’, The Sydney Morning Herald 7 December 1996
Nicholas Jose, ‘Best Books of ‘96’, The Sydney Morning Herald 7 December 1996
Don Anderson, ‘Best Books of ‘96’, The Sydney Morning Herald 7 December 1996
Tim Thorne, The Hobart Mercury, 2 September 1996
Dipti Saravanamuttu, Southerly, 1996
Keith Russell, ‘The Light Touch:Recent Australian Poetry’ Quadrant Jan/Feb 1987
John Irving, ‘Three Poets: Another Achievement for Small Presses’ Australian Book Review 1986
Judith Rodriguez, ‘New Poets Show Power Amid Complexity’, Sydney Morning Herald 1985
ANTHOLOGIES
Anthology of Australian Poetry, edited by John Kinsella, University of Louisana 2009
Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature, Centre of Macquarie University PEN, 2008
Contemporary Australian Poetry in Chinese Translation, edited by Ouyang Yu and John Kinsella, 2008
Windchimes, Asia in Australian Poetry, Pandanus Poetry, edited by Noel Rowe and Vivian Smith 2006, pp.211-3
Poets Union Poems About War, http://www.poetsunion.com/PoemsAboutWar.htm
Best Australian Poems 2005, edited by Les Murray, Black Inc, 2005
Big Bridge: a Webzine of Poetry, http://www.bigbridge.org/issue9/ozaitken.htm
Landbridge: Australian Contemporary Poetry, edited by John Kinsella, Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Calyx, an Anthology of New Australian Poetry, edited by Peter Minter and Michael Brennan, Craftsman House/Paper Bark Press 2000
New Music, Anthology of Australian Poetry, edited by John Leonard, Island Press, 2001
Minute to Midnight: New Writing for Peace and Disarmament edited by Christopher Kelen, 1985
Writers in the Park: The Book, edited by Writers in the Park Committee, 1985
Oxford Book of Australian Love Poems , edited by Jennifer Strauss, 1990
Midday Horizon, Round Table Publications 1996
Poetry (Chicago USA) Special Australian Poetry Issue, November 1996
New World Tattoo: Newcastle Poetry Prize 1996; Picador New Writing 4 1997
The Night Jar: Newcastle Poetry Prize
1997
New Pressings, Poetry Australia, 1984.
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