Tim Metcalf

For people with a similar name, see Tim Metcalfe.

Tim Metcalf is an Australian poet and doctor, described as one of Australia's most published doctor-poets. He resides in Brogo, New South Wales (NSW), and has specialized in remote area medicine since 1984. He has worked in NSW, Victoria, the Northern Territory, and British Columbia. ^[1] In 2007, he received the ACT Writing and Publishing Awards poetry award for his anthology of poems, Verbal Medicine, which is his fourth book. ^[2] Additionally, he was awarded First Prize in the Annual Australian W. B. Yeats Poetry Prize in 2000 for his entry, Stages of Dying.

Bibliography

• Corvus, Ginninderra Press Canberra 2001 ISBN   1740271149
• Cut to the Word, Ginninderra Press Canberra 2002 ISBN   1740271688
• Into the No Zone, Ginninderra Press Canberra 2003 ISBN   174027167X
• Verbal Medicine, Ginninderra Press, Canberra, 2006 ISBN   1-74027-369-9
• The Solution to Us, Ginninderra Press Adelaide 2008 ISBN   1-74027-473-3
• The Effective Butterfly, Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide 2010 ISBN   9781740276542
• Last To Go and Other Poems, Picaro Press, Cardiff NSW 2012
• The Underwritten Plain, Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide 2018 ISBN   9781760415778

References

1. Biography - 9th National Rural Health Conference 2007
2. Local Writer's Poetry Prize, Bega News, 21 Dec 2007

External links

• Tim Metcalf's Home Page contains poems and essays, a full bibliography, readings in medical literature developed for Australian National University Medical School, and the Poets of the Bega Valley Audio Project
• Review of Verbal Medicine by Dr Jim Leavesley, Australian Doctor, 1 Feb 2007