James Charlton
James Charlton was born in Melbourne, Australia, Charlton has lived mostly in Tasmania. He completed an MA at the University of Cambridge, where he was at Fitzwilliam College, and a PhD at the University of Tasmania. Poetry editor of the Australian literary quarterly Island from 2002 to 2008, he delivered the inaugural Gwen Harwood Memorial Lecture in 2008.
James Charlton
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- Born
- 1947
- Nationality
- Australia
- Occupation
- playwright · poet · writer
- Education
- University of Cambridge · Fitzwilliam College · University of Tasmania
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Charlton's Luminous Bodies was published in 2001 by Montpelier Press and tied for second place for the 2002 Anne Elder Award. So Much Light was published in 2007 by Pardalote Press. Numerous poems of his have been published in anthologies, in literary journals (Australian, American and British) and in newspapers. Various poems have been broadcast. "Transgressive Saints", shortlisted for the 2006 Broadway Poetry Prize, was published in The Broadway Poetry Prize Winners 2006 by Picaro Press. "Letter to Walt Whitman re: Iraq" was published in The Best Australian Poems 2006 by Black Inc. Charlton's study of three European mystical poet-theologians, Non-dualism in Eckhart, Julian of Norwich and Traherne: A Theopoetic Reflection, was published by Bloomsbury in January 2013.
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- 1.AUST LIT: The Australian Literature Resource
- 2.Luminous Bodies by James Charlton in National Library of Australia Catalogue
- 3.Fitzwilliam Journal, November 2013, p. 75
- 4.UTAS School of Philosophy profile.
- 5.ABC Radio National, The Book Show, 26 March 2008, Review by Geoff Page of So Much Light
- 6.Fitzwilliam Journal, November 2013, p. 75
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