Judith Beveridge
Judith Beveridge (born 3 August 1956) is a contemporary Australian poet, editor and academic. She is a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award.
Judith Beveridge
- Occupation
- Poet, editor and academic
- Born
- 1956 · London.
- Nationality
- Australia
- Education
- University of Technology Sydney
- Honours
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry · Christopher Brennan Award · Peter Porter Poetry Prize
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• Occupation — Poet, editor and academic • Language — English
Biography
Biography
Judith Beveridge was born in London, England, arriving in Australia with her parents in 1960. She started her education at the Auburn North Public School in September 1961, and graduated in 1968 as dux (a title awarded to the student with best aggregate result over all subjects). Completing a BA at UTS she has worked in libraries, teaching, as a researcher and in environmental regeneration. From 2003 until 2018, she taught creative writing at the University of Sydney and was poetry editor for Meanjin from 2005 to 2015, having previously edited Hobo and the Australian Arabic literature journal Kalimat.
Articles
Articles
• Beveridge, Judith. (2001). Four Ascetics, The Literary Review, 45, no. 1, (2001): 152
Awards and nominations
• 1988 – Mary Gilmore Award for The Domesticity of Giraffes • 1988 – New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for The Domesticity of Giraffes • 1988 – Victorian Premier's Literary Award, C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry for The Domesticity of Giraffes • 1997 – Wesley Michel Wright Prize • 2003 – The Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize • 2004 – Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Poetry Collection – Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award for Wolf Notes • 2005 – winner of the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal at the Mildura Writer's Festival • 2013 – Christopher Brennan Award • 2015 – Peter Porter Poetry Prize • 2015 – New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, shortlisted, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for Devadatta's Poems. • 2019 – Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Poetry for Sun Music • 2023 – Australian Catholic University Prize for Poetry for "Two Houses" • 2025 – Lifetime Achievement award, Creative Australia
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- 1.Australian Poets and Their Works, by William Wilde, Oxford University Press, 1996.
- 2.Selina Samuels. Australian writers, 1975–2000. Thomson Gale. 33. July 2006. 978-0-7876-8143-2.
- 3.Biography at Australian Literature Resources. 3 July 2007.
- 4.JUDITH BEVERIDGE. 2019 Queensland Poetry Festival. 2019-06-24.
- 5.Beveridge, Judith - Poet - Australian Poetry Library. www.poetrylibrary.edu.au.
- 6.Sweetness. Meanjin. 2018-03-18.
- 7.Association for the Study of Australian Literature: Mary Gilmore Prize for the best first book of poetry. 3 July 2007.
- 8.NSW Ministry for the Arts: Premier's Literary Awards. 3 July 2007.
- 9.Sydney Morning Herald, 19 September 1989, p10. The lucky seven out of 249.
- 10.The University of Queensland. Australian Centre Literary Awards - Wesley Michel Wright Prize in Poetry. AustLit: Discover Australian Stories.
- 11.Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize. 3 July 2007.
- 12.Queensland Premier's Literary Awards. 26 June 2007.
- 13.Arts Festival 07 Mildura/Wentworth. Mildura Writers' Festival, Thursday 20 – Sunday 23 July 2006.
- 14.Giromondo Publishing, 22 April 2014. "Judith Beveridge Honoured with the Christopher Brennan Award".
- 15.Beveridge wins Peter Porter Poetry Prize. Books+Publishing. 2015-05-15.
- 16.New South Wales Premier's Awards. SL Magazine. 8. 4. 35. Summer 2015.
- 17.Winners announced for PM's Literary Awards 2019. Books+Publishing. 23 October 2019.
- 18.Books+Publishing. Beveridge wins $10k ACU Poetry Prize. 2023-10-04.
- 19.Books+Publishing. Beveridge receives lifetime achievement award. 2025-11-24.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 10
- The Domesticity of Giraffes (Black Lightning, 1987)
- A Parachute of Blue: First Choice of Australian Poets. Number One, with Jill Jones (poet) & Louise Katherine Wakeling (Round Table Publications, 1995)
- Accidental Grace (UQP, 1996)
- How to Love Bats, and Other Poems (Picaro Press, 2001) OCLC: 57312733
- Wolf Notes (Giramondo, 2003)
- The Best Australian Poetry 2006, with Martin Duwell & Bronwyn Lea (UQP, 2006)
- Storm and Honey (Giramondo, 2009)
- Devadatta's Poems (Giramondo, 2014)
- Sun Music: New and Selected Poems (Giramondo, 2018)
- Tintinnabulum, (Giramondo, 2024)
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