Pam Brown

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Pam Brown
BornPamela Jane Barclay Brown
1948 (age 7677)
Seymour, Victoria, Australia
OccupationPoet
NationalityAustralian
Partner Jane Zemiro

Pamela Jane Barclay Brown (born 1948) is an Australian poet.

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Career

Pam Brown was born in Seymour, Victoria. Most of her childhood was spent on military bases in Toowoomba and Brisbane. [1] Since her early twenties, she has lived in Melbourne and Adelaide, and has travelled widely in the Pacific and Indian Ocean regions as well as Europe and the U.S., but mostly she has lived in Sydney, on the unceded land of the Eora Nation. She has made her living variously as a silkscreen printer, bookseller, postal worker and has taught writing, multi-media studies and film-making. Pam Brown worked from 1989 to 2006 as a librarian at University of Sydney.

From 1997 to 2002 Pam Brown was the poetry editor of Overland and from 2004 to 2011 she was the associate editor of Jacket magazine. [2] She has been a guest at poetry festivals worldwide, taught at the University for Foreign Languages, Hanoi, and during 2003 had Australia Council writers residency in Rome. In 2013 she held the Distinguished Visitor Award at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. [1] [2]

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Bibliography

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Electronic books

References

  1. 1 2 Brown, Pam. "Brief Profile of Pam Brown". Archived from the original on 24 May 2024. Retrieved 1 April 2008.
  2. 1 2 Brennan, Michael. "Pam Brown". Poetry International Web. Archived from the original on 2 June 2011. Retrieved 1 April 2008.
  3. "Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry". State Library of NSW. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
  4. "Brown wins 2019 ALS Gold Medal". Books+Publishing. 3 July 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
  5. Burke, Kelly (8 September 2022). "Queensland Literary awards: winners list reflects 'a moment of change for the nation'". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 September 2022.