- Jennifer Strauss
Jennifer Strauss AM(born
1933 ) is a contemporaryAustralian poet andacademic .Jennifer Strauss was born in Heywood, Victoria and educated at various boarding schools and
Melbourne University . [cite web
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accessdate = 2007-12-09 ] Working in academia she has published several books of criticism and literary autobiography as well as editing anthologies and several volumes of her own poetry. The current president of theAustralian Federation of University Women Strauss is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English atMonash University .In 2007 Strauss was awarded the Medal of the
Order of Australia , for her work in education, her work as an academic in the fields of literature and poetry and for her work in woman's issues and industrial relations.cite web |title= It's an Honor |publisher= Australian Government |url= http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=1134795&search_type=advanced&showInd=true |accessdate= 2007-07-23]Works
Poetry
*"Children and Other Strangers: Poems". (1975)
*"Winter Driving: Poems". (1981)
*"Labour Ward". (Pariah, 1988)
*"Tierra del Fuego: New and selected poems". (Pariah, 1997)Non-fiction
*"Stop laughing! I’m Being Serious: Three studies in seriousness and wit in contemporary Australian poetry". (1990)
*"Boundary Conditions: The Poetry of Gwen Harwood". (UQP, 1992) ISBN 0-7022-2412-X
*"Judith Wright". (OUP, 1995)Edited
*"Family Ties: Australian Poems of the Family". (Oxford, 1998)
*"The Oxford Literary History of Australia". With Bruce Bennett (Oxford, 1999) ISBN 978-0-19-553737-6
*"The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore: Volume 1, 1887-1929". (Australian Academy of the Humanities/UQP, 2005) [http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/awsr/awbr/issues/142/marygilmore.html review]External links
* [http://www.people.ex.ac.uk/smnamjos/Poems/Strauss.htm Discourse in Eden] Poem
* [http://www.thylazine.org/archives/thyla3/strauss.html Interview]Notes
References
* [http://www.asc.uq.edu.au/asal/index.php?apply=19&menu=news&order=19&extra=default ASAL Congratulates Jennifer Strauss] Association for the Study of Australian Literature (Retrieved 23-July-2007)
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NAME=Strauss, Jennifer
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=ContemporaryAustralian poet andacademic
DATE OF BIRTH=1933
PLACE OF BIRTH=Heywood,Victoria, Australia
DATE OF DEATH=
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