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joanne burns
photo by Loma Bridge
courtesy the author
joanne burns (b.1945) grew up in Rose Bay and Dover Heights, close to the harbour, beaches and cliffs of Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Some dozen collections of her poetry have been published. She has been particularly concerned with the blurring of the distinctions between poetry and prose in her work, and has written extensively in prose poem/ microfiction forms. She has also written monologues and short futurist fictions and farables (fables/ parables). Her work has been produced for theatre and radio, and studied for NSW Higher School Certificate English. She has mainly worked as a teacher; and has taught creative writing in tertiary institutions, in the community, and in schools. A detailed literary biography by Margaret Bradstock appears in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 289 (Gale, 2004).
joanne burns, Bondi Promenade, mid-1940s, photo courtesy the author
A selection of poems: dependence day / after reading Keats’ Ode on Melancholy / carnal knowledge / golden triangle / another new year / digital recording ( after eliot) / traffic / watchdog / marinations / fangle / yardstick / shelf life / footnotes of a hammock / until further notice / ipso facto / certificate / costume / how to sneeze in peace
joanne burns: ‘Not Another Poem...’ on the craft of poetry
joanne burns: A memoir of Portugal, 1971
joanne burns: List of publications
A larger version of the photo at right
http://april.edu.au/burns-j/index.shtml