Louise Crisp

Louise Crisp (born 1957) is a contemporary Australian poet.

Louise Crisp lives in East Gippsland (Victoria) with her partner and two daughters. Her first collection was The luminous ocean, a shared volume with Valery Wilde's In the Half-Light. She has published several more books of poetry and worked, among other occupations, as a fire tower watcher on which she has written in Pearl & sea fed. This volume was shortlisted for the 1995 C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry.

Crisp's 2019 book, Yuiquimbiang, was shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry.[1]

Works

Poetry

  • The luminous ocean. (Friendly Street Poets, 1988)
  • Pearl & sea fed. (New Zealand: Hazard Press, 1994) ISBN 0-908790-79-1
  • Ruby Camp: A Snowy River series. (Melbourne: Spinifex Press, 1998) ISBN 1-875559-83-3
  • Three golden fish. (Wind and Water Press, 2004) ISBN 0-9585422-8-7
  • Uplands: poems. (Five Islands Press, c.2007) ISBN 0-7340369-2-2
  • Yuiquimbiang. (Cordintebooks, 2019) ISBN 9-7806480568-9-8

References
  1. "2020 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 2 December 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.


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