Jordie Albiston

Jordie Albiston

Jordie Albiston (born 1961) is a contemporary Australian poet and academic.

Jordie Albiston, grew up in Melbourne, studied flute at Victoria College of the Arts before turning to writing. Her first collection of poems, "Nervous Arcs", won the Mary Gilmore Award. Her next works were in the form of 'documentary' collections, the first about the first European women in the Botany Bay settlement, and the second collection about Jean Lee, the last woman executed in Australia.

The "Botany Bay Document" evolved out of a Ph D she undertook in literature. This work was later transformed into a performance work called "Dreaming Transportation: Voice Portraits of the First Women of White Settlement at Port Jackson" by Andrée Greenwellcite news |title= Black Pepper Publishing - Dreaming Transportation |url= http://members.dodo.net.au/~ghannah/albistonbbd.html#Dreaming_Transportation |date= July 3, 2007] . In 2003 the performance premiered at the Sydney Festival and in 2004 was staged again at the Sydney Opera House. The performance included the voices of Deborah Conway, Susan Prior, Christine Douglas, Amie McKenna and Jeannie Van de Velde and musicians, Hope Csuturos (violin), James Nightingale (clarinet, saxophone), Jane Williams (cello), Kim Poole (guitar/mandolin), Denise Papaluca (piano), Mardi Chillingworth (double bass) and Jared Underwood (percussion).

In 2006, Jordie Albison's biographical verse, "The Hanging of Jean Lee" was used as the text for an opera created by Andrée Greenwell and Melbourne playwright Abe Pogos and staged at the Sydney Opera House, The Studio.cite news |title= Media Release: Tim Maddock to direct Sydney Opera House production by DCA candidate Andree Greenwell |url= http://www.uow.edu.au/crearts/MediaRelease/JeanLee06.html |date= June 29, 2006]

Awards and Nominations

* 1991 - joint winner of the Wesley Michel Wright Award
* 1996 - awarded the Mary Gilmore Award for "Nervous Arcs"cite web |title= Mary Gilmore Prize for the best first book of poetry |publisher= Association for the Study of Australian Literature |url= http://www.asc.uq.edu.au/asal/index.php?apply=3&menu=awards&order=3&extra=default |accessdate= 2007-07-13]
* 1997 - Dinny O’Hearn Memorial Fellowship cite news |title= University of Melbourne: The DJ (Dinny) O'Hearn Memorial Fellowship |url= http://www.australian.unimelb.edu.au/public/awards/ohearn.html |date= April 23, 2007]
* 2003 - shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, C.J. Dennis Prize for Poetry for "The Fall"
* 2004 - shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry

Bibliography

* "Utterance", (S.l. : s.n., 1993?)
* "Nervous Arcs" (Spinifex, 1995)
* "Botany Bay Document : a poetic history of the women of Botany Bay" (North Fitzroy: Black Pepper, 1996) [http://members.dodo.net.au/~ghannah/albistonbbd.html reviews] [http://home.vicnet.net.au/~abr/May99/hew.html Hewett, D: "A Grim and Rough Story", Australian Book Review, May 1999] ]
* "The Hanging of Jean Lee" (North Fitzroy: Black Pepper, 1998) [http://members.dodo.net.au/~ghannah/albistonthojl.html reviews]
* "My Secret Life and Other Poems", (Picaro Press, 2002)
* "The Fall" (White Crane Press, 2003) [http://www.cordite.org.au/archives/000320.html reviewed]
* "Vertigo, A Cantata" (John Leonard Press, 2007)

Notes

References

* [http://walleahpress.com.au/albiston.html Interview] by Kate Middleton
* [http://www.vibewire.net/3/life/anne_tranjan18jordie_albiston Short interview] by Anne Tran

External links

* [http://www.softblow.com/jordiealbiston.html Six Villain-elles] at softblow.com
* [http://www.cordite.org.au/archives/000228.html Soul vs Body] a poem
* [http://www.tattoohighway.org/6/jathings.html Things to do (Heart)]

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