Barry Hill (writer)

Barry Hill (born June 19,1943) is an Australian historian, poet, journalist and academic.

Hill was born in Melbourne, Australia.cite web |title= Dr Barry Hill, ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, English Literary Studies |publisher= University of Melbourne, Faculty of Arts - School of Culture and Communication |url= http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/people/barry-hill.html |accessdate= 2008-07-12] He studied at the University of Melbourne gaining his Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Education (B Ed) and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and from there went to London where he gained his Master of Arts (MA) degreee from the University of London.

Hill has worked in both Melbourne and London. In London he worked for the Times Literary Supplement.cite web |title= Agent details - Hill, Barry |publisher= Austlit |url= http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A(%2BU |accessdate= 2008-07-12] Since 1975 Hill has been a full time writer and is currently Poetry Editor of The Australian newspaper.

Hill is married to Rose Bygrave, a member of the "The Goanna Band".cite web |title= Writers' Weekly Wrap (Saturday, March 11, 2006) |publisher= Australian Literature Diary |url= http://austlit.blogspot.com/2006/03/writers-week-wrap.html |accessdate= 2008-07-12]

Performance works

Hill has produced performance works for radio, including "Desert Canticles" that premiered on ABC Radio on February 5, 2001.cite web|title= The Listening Room, February 2001 |publisher= ABC Classic FM |url= http://www.abc.net.au/classic/lroom/stories/s233458.htm |accessdate= 2008-07-12] cite web |title= Desert Canticles |publisher= Music Australia |url= http://nla.gov.au/nla.cs-ma-an26051019 |accessdate= 2008-07-12] Hill is quoted as saying that inspiration for the piece:

"Desert Canticles arises out of a marriage, a decade of travelling, and some years writing the literary biography of T.G.H. Strehlow out of Central Australia. I was writing my own poems out of love and the landscape, while trying to fathom Strehlow's great achievement in Songs of Central Australia. So the notion of translation as a metaphor for relationship - with place, with others, and with songs of different cultures (Hebraic, Buddhist, and Aboriginal) became a natural one upon which to thread a radio work."

Awards

* 1991 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for non-fiction, for "Sitting In"
* 1994 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for "Ghosting William Buckley"
* 2003 Victorian Premier's Literary Award Non-Fiction award for "Broken Song: T G H Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession"
* 2004 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards NSW Premier's Biennial Prize for Literary Scholarship for "Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession"
* 2004 Victorian Premier's Literary Award, the Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate for "The Mood We're In: circa Australia Day 2004"cite web |title= The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate: Winner 2004 |publisher= State Library of Victoria |url= http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/programs/literary/pla/adprize/winner2004.html |accessdate= 2008-07-12]
* 2004 National Biography Award for "Broken Song: T G H Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession"
* 2004 Tasmania Pacific Bicentenary History Award for "Broken Song: T G H Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession"cite web |title= Winners of the Tasmanian Bicentenary History Prizes |publisher= 2004 Bicentenary of Tasmania, Department of Tourism, Parks, Heritage and the Arts |url= http://www.bicentenary.tas.gov.au/page.php?id=123 |accessdate= 2008-07-12]
* 2005 Victorian Community History Awards for Best Print/Publication, with and the Borough of Queenscliffe, for "The Enduring Rip: A History of Queenscliffe"

Bibliography

Poetry

* "Raft: Poems 1983-1990" (Penguin, 1990)
* "Ghosting William Buckley" (Heinemann, 1993)
* "The Inland Sea" (Salt Publishing, 2001)
* "Drawing from Freud and other poems", Best Poems of 2003" (Black Inc, 2004)
* "A Long Swim", Best Poem of 2004"
* "Himalayan Fire", Best Poems of 2005"
* "Her Heart is Embroidered", Australian Business Review" (March 2006)

hort Stories

* "A Rim of Blue" (McPhee Gribble, 1978)
* "Headlocks & Other Stories" (McPhee Gribble, 1983)

Novels

* "The Schools" (Penguin, 1977)
* "Near the Refinery" (McPhee Gribble, 1980)
* "The Best Picture" (McPhee Gribble, 1988)

Non-fiction

* "Sitting In" (Heinemann, 1991)
* "The Rock: Travelling to Uluru" (Allen & Unwin, 1994)
* "The Enduring Rip: A History of Queenscliffe" (MUP, 2004)

Essays

* "The Mood We're In: circa Australia Day 2004." Overland 77.
* 'Crossing Cultures.' Meanjin (Vol. 4. 2003)
* 'Poems That Kill.' Griffith Review (Vol. 7, 2005)

Biography

* "Broken Song: T G H Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession" (Knopf-Random House 2002)

Libretti

* "The Dark" (Southern Cross University - University Library Lismore collection, 1999)cite web |title= Barry Hill, books and texts |publisher= Music Australia |url= http://www.musicaustralia.org/apps/MA?function=searchResults&term1=Hill,%20Barry,&scope=scope&parameter1=phrase&location1=Anywhere |accessdate= 2008-07-12]
* "Desert Canticles", Veronica Dobson (performerer), Elena Kats-Chernin (composerer) (Australian Music Centre, 2001)
* "Song of Songs" , music by Andrew Schultz (Australian Music Centre)
* "Love Strong as Death: a New Song of Songs", composer Andrew Schultz, performed at 'The Studio', The Sydney Opera House, May 2004

Notes

References

*cite web |title= Dr Barry Hill, ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, English Literary Studies |publisher= University of Melbourne, Faculty of Arts - School of Culture and Communication |url= http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/people/barry-hill.html |accessdate= 2008-07-12
*cite web |title= Agent details - Hill, Barry |publisher= Austlit |url= http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A(%2BU |accessdate= 2008-07-12
*cite web |title= Barry Hill, books and texts |publisher= Music Australia |url= http://www.musicaustralia.org/apps/MA?function=searchResults&term1=Hill,%20Barry,&scope=scope&parameter1=phrase&location1=Anywhere |accessdate= 2008-07-12
*cite web |title= Five Islands Press Authors |publisher= 5 Islands Press |url= http://www.fiveislandspress.com/authors.html |accessdate= 2008-07-12