Andrew Burke (poet)

Andrew Burke (born 1944 in Melbourne, Victoria) is a contemporary Australian poet.[1]

Andrew Burke
Andrew Burke in 2012
Born1944
Melbourne, Victoria
OccupationWriter
NationalityAustralian
Genrepoetry
Website
hispirits.blogspot.com

Early in his working life, Burke pursued a career in advertising as a copywriter and creative director.

In the 1970s he had received prizes - the Thomas Wardle poetry prize of 1973,[2] and 1977 the Tom Collins poetry prize.[3]

He switched to academia as a literature and creative writing lecturer in middle age. He received a MA in writing from Edith Cowan University in 2002, and a PhD in writing in 2006.

He has lectured in Australia and China, and read his poetry to audiences of all ages in the United Kingdom, Singapore, China, and throughout Australia.

His poetry has been included in Western Australian and Australian anthologies.[4]

Collections of his poems exist online[5][6] and his blog includes poetry.[7][8]

Works
  • 1975 Let's face the music & dance[9]
  • 1983 On the tip of my tongue Fremantle, W.A.:Fremantle Arts Centre Press (Shoreline poetry series number 6) ISBN 0-909144-75-3
  • 1992 Mother waits for father late Fremantle, W.A.: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, ISBN 1-86368-014-4
    • (reprinted in 2010) by Picaro Press, Warners Bay, N.S.W. ISBN 978-1-920957-97-1
  • 1996 Pushing at silence Applecross, W.A.: Folio (Salt), ISBN 0-646-29751-1[10]
  • 2001 Whispering Gallery Cottesloe, W.A.: Sunline Press, ISBN 0-9579515-0-7
  • 2003 Knock on wood : and other poems Warners Bay, N.S.W. : Picara Press, Wagtail (series), 1444-8424; 18
  • 2009 Beyond City Limits International Centre for Landscape and Language, Edith Cowan University, Mt Lawley, W.A. ISBN 978-0-646-52005-6
  • 2011 Blue Rose Etext Press ISBN 978-1-921968-09-9 also found at Smashwords –
  • 2011 Qwerty : take my word for it Kalgoorlie, W.A. :Mulla Mulla Press ISBN 978-0-9870771-2-7
  • 2012 Shikibu Shuffle with Phil Hall – see http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
  • 2012 Undercover of Lightness North Hobart, Tas.: Walleah Press ISBN 978-1-877010-16-3 –[11]
  • 2014 One Hour Seeds Another North Hobart, Tas.: Walleah Press[12][13]
  • 2017 The Line is Busy[14]

Notes
  1. Bladen, Emma Andrew Burke – biography of W.A. poet, Subiaco Post 7 July 1992, p.6 and 55
  2. Sir Thomas Wardle Literary Prize Competition 1973, Bunbury Arts Promotion Council, 1973, retrieved 13 May 2019
  3. Darby, Patricia, 1934-; Fellowship of Australian Writers. W.A. Branch (1998), Sudden alchemy : selected Australian poetry, Fellowship of Australian Writers, W.A. Branch, ISBN 978-0-909497-88-0CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. Andrew Burke p.10-11 of Veronica Brady editor (1976)Soundings: a selection of Western Australian poetry Fremantle, W.A. : Fremantle Arts Centre Press
  5. http://www.foame.org/Issue6/poems/burke.html
  6. 'Peripatetica' edition of Landscapes Issue 1, Volume 4 of the International Centre for Landscape and Language at Edith Cowan University – "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 November 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. http://southerlyjournal.com.au/2011/10/28/next-monthly-blogger-andrew-burke/
  8. http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
  9. Burke, Andrew; Jennings, Murray (1980), [Poetry of Andrew Burke], retrieved 6 October 2016
  10. Reviewed by Bev Braune Poems of Memory Grammar ABR April 1997 pp.57-58
  11. http://rochfordstreetreview.com/2012/08/16/the-ruthless-eye-rae-desmond-jones-reviews-undercover-of-lightness-by-andrew-burke/ Rae Desmond Jones review
  12. Nathan Hondros reviews One Hour Seeds Another in The Rochford Street Review
  13. Pont,AE (14 November 2014), Review Short: Andrew Burke’s One Hour Seeds Another and Nicola Bowery’s married to this ground, Cordite Press, retrieved 12 March 2019
  14. Burke, Andrew; Fan, Xing, (translator.); 樊星, (translator.); Association of Stories in Macao, (issuing body.) (2016), The line is busy = Zhan xian, ASM and Cerberus, ISBN 9789996557064CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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