Eric Beach

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Eric Beach (born 1947), is a New Zealand and Australian poet, playwright, and short story writer.

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Poet person who writes and publishes poetry

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Biography

Born in New Zealand, Beach has lived in Tasmania and in Victoria since 1972. [1] He is active in the Australian Performance Poetry scene, performing at workshops, readings and events around Australia. [2]

Tasmania island state of Australia

Tasmania is an island state of Australia. It is located 240 km (150 mi) to the south of the Australian mainland, separated by Bass Strait. The state encompasses the main island of Tasmania, the 26th-largest island in the world, and the surrounding 334 islands. The state has a population of around 531,500 as of December 2018. Just over forty percent of the population resides in the Greater Hobart precinct, which forms the metropolitan area of the state capital and largest city, Hobart.

His publication Weeping for Lost Babylon won the 1996 Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize, and was joint winner of the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. [3]

The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form. It is named after Kenneth Slessor (1901–1971).

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References

  1. ↑ Australian Poets and Their Works, by William Wilde, Oxford University Press, 1996
  2. ↑ http://www.thylazine.org/directory/directb/ Archived 5 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine The Thylazine Foundation: Arts, Ethics and Literature.
  3. ↑ https://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/beach-eric/


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