Andrew Taylor (poet)

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Andrew Taylor
BornAndrew McDonald Taylor
1940
Warrnambool, Victoria
OccupationPoet and academic
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
Years active1959-
Notable worksTravelling
Notable awards1986 Commonwealth Poetry Prize — Australia and Pacific Area

Andrew McDonald Taylor AM (born 19 March 1940) is an Australian poet and academic, and a co-founder of Friendly Street Poets in Adelaide, South Australia. [1]

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Early life and career

Andrew Taylor was born in Warrnambool, Victoria on 19 March 1940. Educated at the University of Melbourne, Taylor moved to Adelaide in 1970, where he taught at the English Department at the University of Adelaide, mainly in American Literature. [1]

Academic career

In 1992 he became Foundation Professor of English at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia. [1]

Taylor taught for many years at the University of Adelaide, and was made an emeritus professor at Edith Cowan University. He has been a visiting lecturer at Cornell University in the US and Churchill College Cambridge, UK, and has also taught at the University of Tübingen in Germany and at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology in China. [1]

Poetry and other roles

In 1975 Taylor co-founded the poetry reading group Friendly Street Poets in Adelaide, along with Richard Tipping and Ian Reid. [2]

He was a co-founder and the first chair of the South Australian Writers' Centre, [1] the first and prototype of many subsequent writers' centres throughout Australia, established in 1985. [3] [4]

In 2005, Salt Publishing published Andrew Taylor's Collected Poems, bringing together his entire body of poetry, including new poems written between 2000 and 2003. A further collection, The Unhaunting was published in 2009. Although the bulk of Taylor's poems are relatively short lyrics or meditations, he has also been drawn to longer forms. The Crystal Absences, the Trout and Rome are each single book-length poems, and Parabolas is a collection of prose poems that broke new ground in Australia when first published. His critical study, Reading Australian Poetry was the first of its kind in Australia for more than twenty years.[ citation needed ]

From 2006 until 2009 he was the poetry editor for the Australian literary journal Westerly . He has been a member of the South Australian Arts Grants Advisory Committee, the Australian Society of Authors Management Committee and acting chairperson of the Literature Board of the Australia Council. He has acted as chair of Adelaide Writers' Week at the Adelaide Festival of the Arts.[ when? ]

Accolades

Taylor was the regional winner of the British Airways Commonwealth Poetry Prize for his 1986 book, Travelling. His 1995 book of poetry, Sandstone, won the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards for poetry for that year, and Götterdämerung Café was shortlisted in 2002.[ citation needed ]

In 1990 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for "service to the Arts, particularly in the field of literature". [5]

Selected works

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Austlit — Andrew Taylor". Austlit. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
  2. ↑ "About". Friendly Street Poets. 11 December 2007. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  3. ↑ Korsten, Tracey (7 September 2020). "Writers SA Summer Offerings". Glam Adelaide (in Indonesian). Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  4. ↑ Butterss, Philip, ed. (2013). Adelaide: a literary city (PDF). University of Adelaide. p. 15. ISBN   978-1-922064-64-6. ...the Friendly Street Poets, Australia's oldest public reading community; the South Australian Writers' Centre, the first such body to be established and a model for others throughout the country;...
  5. ↑ "Andrew McDonald Taylor". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 11 December 2019.

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