Pi O

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title = Pi O interviewed by Brad Evans
publisher = Cordite Magazine
year = 2000
url = http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/14234/20010621/cordite.org.au/06-07/evans,pio.html
accessdate = 2007-10-22 ]

Born in Katerini, Greece, П O came to Australia with his family to Bonegilla migrant camp around 1954 from where they moved to the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy. He was inspired to start writing poetry in 1970 when he heard Johnny Cash reciting (religious) poetry while tuning his guitar. П O thought he could do as well or better. His work ranges from standup-type rants to 'conceptual' page poetry and concrete poetry, with a heavy emphasis on wordplay and capturing the vitality of everyday speech. Thematically, he commonly portrays the issues of migrant working class life. Fact|date=April 2008 He has had numerous books published since his first, "Fitzroy Brothel" in 1974, more notably the epic verse novel "24hrs". From 1978 to 1983, he was involved in producing the radical poetry magazine "925". He is a fixture of Melbourne's performance poetry scene and has edited an anthology of performance poetry ("Off the record") for Penguin.

Bibliography

* "Fitzroy brothel: Poems" (1974)
* "Emotions in concrete" (1975)
* "street singe" (1976)
* "л. o. Revisited" (Wild & Woolley, 1976) ISBN 0-909331-23-5
* "Panash" (Collective Effort, 1978)
* "Missing Form: Concrete, visual and experimental poems" (Collective Effort, 1981)
* "The Fitzroy poems" (Collective Effort, 1989)
* "24 hrs: The day the language stood still" (Collective Effort, 1996) ISBN 0-646-26903-8
* "The Number Poems and Other Equations" (Collective Effort, 2000)

Edited
* "Missing Forms" with Peter Murphy and Alex Selenitsch (Collective Effort, 1981)
* "Off the record" (Penguin, 1985)

References

External links

* [http://members.fortunecity.com/stoneking/famouspoet.html The Poetry of Π Ο]
* [http://www.thylazine.org/archives/thyla6/thyla6d.html Pi O - An appreciation] by Billy Marshall Stoneking
* [http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/thalia/au-pi0.htm visual poetry]
* [http://www.uow.edu.au/crearts/va/PiOVisualPoetry.html Visual Poetry by PiO]
* [http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/PI-O-1.HTM TERRIBLENESS] Essay by PI O (in another nomenclature)
* [http://www.takver.com/history/925/925_sum.htm "925" magazine]

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