Joanne Burns

b. 1945, Sydney

Joanne Burns is a Sydney poet who has taught English and creative writing in Australia and the UK.  She has published numerous collections of poems, which incorporate prose and found forms. Her work has been particularly concerned with the blurring of the distinctions between poetry and prose, and she 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. Her book Footnotes of a hammock (Five Islands Press, 2004) shared the 2005 Judith Wright Award for a collection of poetry.

Publications

1972: Snatch (Strange Faeces Press)
1973: Ratz (Saturday Centre)
1975: Alphabatics — children’s stories (Saturday Centre)
1976: Adrenalin Flicknife (Saturday Centre )
1977: Radio City 2am — with Stefanie Bennett and Ruth K. Fordham (Cochon Press)
1979: Correspondences — with Pamela Brown (Red Press)
1981: ventriloquy (Sea Cruise Press)
1988: blowing bubbles in the seventh lane (Fab Press)
1992: on a clear day (University of Queensland Press 1992; an ETT Imprint book since 1997)
1996: penelope’s knees (University of Queensland Press)
1999: aerial photography (Five Islands Press 1999)
2001: people like that — a sampler (Picaro Press Wagtail Series No.1)
2004: footnotes of a hammock (Five Islands Press 2004)