Pam Brown

b. 1948, Australia  

Pam Brown has published fiftteen books and six chapbooks of poetry and prose including 50-50 and Text thing both from Little Esther Books. Recent collections are Dear Deliria (Salt Publishing, 2003) and True Thoughts (Salt Modern Poets 2008). She was the poetry editor for ‘Overland’ magazine for five years and, currently, she is a contributing editor to the U.S-based annual of poetry and aesthetics, ‘Fulcrum’, and the associate editor of ‘Jacket’ magazine. She has travelled widely and was resident in the Australia council For the Arts’ poet’s studio in Rome in 2003.  In a parallel life she  lives in Hellbourg, La Réunion. In this life she relocated to the Blackheath in the Blue Mountains just to the west of Sydney in 2007. She keeps a blog - http://thedeletions.blogspot.com

 

Shortlists

1984: NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry

1999: NSW Premier’s Kenneth Slessor Award for Poetry

2009: The Age Book Of The Year Award - Poetry 

Awards

2004: NSW Premier’s Kenneth Slessor Award for Poetry

Publications

1972: Sureblock    (P.Woolley Melbourne)

1973: Cocabola's Funny Picture Book (Tomato Press Sydney)

1974: Automatic Sad  (Tomato Press Sydney)

1979: Cafe Sport  (Sea Cruise Books Sydney)

1979: Correspondences (Red Press Sydney)

1980: Country & Eastern (Never-Never Books Sydney)

1982: Small Blue View  (E.A.F./Magic Sam, Adelaide)

1984: Selected Poems 1971-1982  (Redress/Wild&Woolley, Sydney)

1987: Keep It Quiet  (Sea Cruise Books Sydney)

1990: New & Selected Poems (Wild&Woolley, Sydney)

1994: This World. This Place  (UQP, Brisbane)

1997: 50 - 50 (Little Esther Books, Adelaide)

2002: Text thing (Little Esther Books, Adelaide)

2003: Dear Deliria (Salt Publishing, U.K./U.S.A/Aust) http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/1876857544.htm

2008: True Thoughts (Salt Publishing, U.K./U.S.A/Aust) http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844714278.htm

2009: Authentic Local  (papertiger media, Brisbane)                                                  

Chapbooks

1994: Little Droppings  (Never-Never Books, Sydney)

1998 & 2006: My Lightweight Intentions (Salt/Folio, U.K./Perth)

2000: Drifting Topoi (Vagabond Press,  Sydney)

2002: eleven 747 poems  (Wild Honey Press,  Ireland)

2005: Let’s Get Lost (with Ken Bolton and Laurie Duggan)  (Vagabond Press, Sydney)

2006: Peel Me A Zibibbo (Never-Never Books, Sydney)

2007: farout library software (with Maged Zaher) (Tinfish Press  Hawai'i, USA)