Richard Hillman (poet)

Richard Hillman (born 16 March 1964 in Liverpool, New South Wales) is a contemporary Australian poet.

He has published a number of collections, and was a founding editor of the poetry and poetics journal Sidewalk (1997).[1] His "The Big Wet Takes Hold" (2004) and "The Night Parrot" (2006) were selected among the best Australian poems.[2][3] In 2001, he was a doctoral student at Flinders University.[4]

Works
  • Mending The Dingo Fence (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 1997)
  • Gone Up River (Adelaide: SideWaLK, 1999)
  • No Grounds (Adelaide: SideWaLK/Subverse, 2000)
  • Flow: Friendly Street Poetry Reader 25 (co-edited with Heather Sladdin, Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2001).
  • Jabiluka Honey: New & Selected Poems (Adelaide: Bookends Books, 2003)
  • Timber Country (Warners Bay, NSW: Picaro Press, 2007)
  • Raw Nerve (Glebe, NSW: Puncher & Wattmann Press, 2009)

References
  1. Arnold, John; John A. Hay; Sally Batten (2001). The bibliography of Australian literature, Volume 2. U of Queensland P. p. 451. ISBN 978-0-7022-3500-9.
  2. Porter, Peter (2005). The Best Australian Poetry 2005. University of Queensland Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-7022-3518-4.
  3. Rose, Peter (2007). The Best Australian Poems 2007. Black. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-86395-417-4.
  4. Hillman, Richard; Heather Sladdin (2001). Flow. Wakefield Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-86254-543-4.
  • Krausmann, Rudi (1998) "Rev. of Hillman, Mending The Dingo Fence." Imago 10.1, 144–47.


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