Louise Crisp

Louise Crisp (born 1957) is a contemporary Australian poet.

Louise Crisp lives in East Gippsland (Victoria) with her partner and two daughters. Her first collection was "The luminous ocean", a shared volume with Valery Wilde's "In the Half-Light". She has published several more books of poetry and worked, among other occupations, as a fire tower watcher on which she has written in "Pearl & sea fed". This volume was shortlisted for the 1995 C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry.

Works

Poetry
* "The luminous ocean". (Friendly Street Poets, 1988)
* "Pearl & sea fed". (New Zealand: Hazard Press, 1994) ISBN 0-908790-79-1
* "Ruby Camp: A Snowy River series". (Melbourne: Spinifex Press, 1998) ISBN 1-875559-83-3
* "Three golden fish". (Wind and Water Press, 2004) ISBN 0-9585422-8-7

External links

* [http://www.friendlystreetpoets.org.au/crisp.htm 3 poems]
* [http://www.thylazine.org/archives/thyla2/lc.html 6 poems]
* [http://www.otago.ac.nz/DeepSouth/crisp.html River] poem at Deep South

References

* [http://www.thylazine.org/directory/directc/ thylazine.org]

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