David Musgrave

David Musgrave (born 1965) is an Australian poet, novelist, publisher and critic. He is currently the publisher of Puncher & Wattmann, an independent press which publishes Australian poetry and literary fiction. He is also treaurer of the Poets Union Inc and has recently returned from a fact finding mission to West Wylong to discover the reason why everyone left Wylong and migrated west.

Musgrave was born in Sydney and educated at Sydney University where in 1997 he received a PhD for his thesis on the topic of Menippean satire. He worked for a number of years as a CIO in the Health Insurance industry. He currently lectures in creative writing at the University of Newcastle.

His first book, To Thalia (Five Islands Press), was published and commended in the 2004 Anne Elder Award; it was followed by On Reflection (Interactive) in 2005 and Watermark (Picaro) in 2006. Several of his poems have won major awards in Australia.

He has published numerous articles on Australian literature, including on Norman Lindsay's The Magic Pudding and David Ireland's The Unknown Industrial Prisoner. He has also written on The Black Dog and Depression (published in Tracking the Black Dog by the Black Dog Institute and published articles on Samuel Beckett and the Ern Malley hoax. His study on Menippean Satire in English since the Renaissance, 'Grotesque Anatomies', is forthcoming from Cambria Press (USA) and his novel 'Glissando: A Melodrama' was published by Sleepers Publishing (Melbourne) in 2010 and was shortlisted for the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing in 2011; his poetry collection Phantom Limb was published by John Leonard Press in 2010 and was awarded the Grace Leven prize for Poetry. Two other collections are forthcoming: 'Concrete Tuesday' from Island Press (2011) and 'Mishearing' from Gorilla Books (2011).

Awards

• 1986 - Henry Lawson Prize for Poetry for the poem Afternoon Ambience
• 1987 - Henry Lawson Prize for Poetry for the poem Budapest
• 1987 - Sydney University Prize for English Verse for the poem What I did on Sunday
• 1994 - Sidney Nolan Gallery Poetry Prize for the poem Glenrowan
• 2001 - Broadway Poetry Prize for the poem Lagoon
• 2003 - Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize for the poem Minneapolis^[1]
• 2004 - Shortlisted for the Anne Elder Award for To Thalia
• 2006 - Highly commended in the Newcastle Poetry Prize for the sequence Open Water
• 2008 - The Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize for the poem Grace
• 2008 - Newcastle Poetry Prize for the poem The Baby Boomers
• 2008 - Alec Bolton prize for the unpublished manuscript Phantom Limb
• 2010 - Grace Leven Prize for Poetry for Phantom Limb

External links

• David Musgrave Home Page
• Puncher & Wattmann

Notes

1. ^ "Minneapolis". UQS Australia Faculty of the Arts. http://www.usq.edu.au/arts/community/poetryprize/2003.htm. Retrieved 2007-09-15. 

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Name	Musgrave, David
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Short description	Australian poet, publisher and critic
Date of birth	1965
Place of birth	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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