Andy Kissane

Andy Kissane is a Melbourne-born, Sydney-based writer. He has won several awards for his writing, including the Sydney Writers' Festival Poetry Olympics, the Publisher's Cup Cricket Poetry Award, the Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry and the BTG-Blue Dog Poetry Reviewing prize. In 2011, his book Out to Lunch was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize, one of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.[1] His poem "Searching the Dead" was joint winner of the 2019 Peter Porter Poetry Prize.[2]

Personal life

Andy Kissane was born in Melbourne, but moved to Sydney in 1987, where he lives in Sydney with his partner and daughter. He has worked as a high school teacher, writer-in-residence, and university lecturer. He has produced audio books and written poetry and fiction. Andy is also a passionate supporter of the Brisbane Lions, coaches basketball and loves gardening, especially bushland regeneration.[1] His older brother is the Australian psychiatrist David Kissane.

Bibliography
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Poetry
Collections
  • Kissane, Andy (1993). Facing the moon. Five Islands Press.
  • Every Night They Dance (Five Islands Press, 2000) ISBN 0-86418-544-8
  • Out to Lunch (Puncher & Wattmann, 2009) ISBN 978-1-921450-20-4
List of poems
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
My mother's light 1996 Kissane, Andy (May 1996). "My mother's light [Breast Tryptych]". Quadrant. 40 (5): 58.
Fanny Burney's mastectomy, 1811 1996 Kissane, Andy (May 1996). "Fanny Burney's mastectomy, 1811 [Breast Tryptych]". Quadrant. 40 (5): 58–59.
No ending 1996 Kissane, Andy (May 1996). "No ending [Breast Tryptych]". Quadrant. 40 (5): 59.

Novels
  • Under the Same Sun (Sceptre, 2000) ISBN 978-0-7336-1265-7

References
  1. http://andykissane.com/?page_id=41
  2. "Kissane and Ling win Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2019". Books+Publishing. 19 March 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
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