Joanne Burns

b. 1945, Sydney

Joanne Burns' poetry includes numerous prose poems, short fictions and monologues. Her first book of poetry Snatch was published in London in 1972. Since then she has published over a dozen other collections including on a clear day, aerial photography, footnotes of a hammock and, in 2007, an illustrated history of dairies. Joanne has been performing her work since the 1970s. She has been a teacher of English and creative writing. Her new collection amphora is forthcoming from Giramondo Publishing in 2010.

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)
2001: people like that — a sampler (Picaro Press Wagtail Series No.1)
2004: footnotes of a hammock (Five Islands Press)

2010: amphora (forthcoming)