Amanda Stewart

Amanda Stewart (born 1959) is a contemporary Australian poet and sound/performance artist.

Amanda Stewart began writing and performing poetry in the 70s and has since produce a wide array of sound, video and multimedia work. In the 1980s she worked for ABC radio as a producer. In 1989 she co-founded the performance ensemble Machine for Making Sense [http://www.newmusicnetwork.com.au/machine/index.htm] with Chris Mann and others with which she still performs and in 1995 started the trio Allos. She has toured in Europe, the United States and Japan. She co-wrote and directed the 1990 film "Eclipse of the Man-Made Sun" about of nuclear weapons in popular culture. Her opera "The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior", written with the composer Colin Bright, was performed as part of the Sydney Festival on Sydney Harbour in 1997. It has since been produced for radio by the ABC. Her collected works book and CD entitled "I/T" won the 1999 Anne Elder Award for poetry.

Works

*"I/T: Selected poems 1980-1996". (Sydney: Here and There/Split Records, 1998) ISBN 978-0-9585392-4-1

External links

* [http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/however/v2_1_2003/current/new_writing/stewart.shtm From I/T] at However
* [http://abc.net.au/tv/set/8.htm Stasis Duo and Amanda Stewart] recordings at ABC TV
* [http://jacketmagazine.com/27/stewart-a.html Trading Centres] poem at Jacket Magazine
* [http://www.propost.org/proposta2004/eng/amandastewart.html amanda stewart] on her own work

References

* [http://www.bodyweather.net/stewart.html Amanda Stewart] Biography at lyrikline.org

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