Richard Hillman (poet)

Richard Hillman (born 1964) is a contemporary Australian poet.

Richard Hillman grew up in Sydney's western suburbs, worked as a nurse before studying at Charles Sturt University, University of New South Wales, Adelaide University and Flinders University. He holds a doctorate for his dissertation on the Australia poet, Francis Webb.

His first collection "Mending The Dingo Fence" elicited strong praise from critics, including Rudi Kraussman's statement that the emotional intensity of Hillman's portrait poem on Patrick White would turn the Nobel Prize winner in his grave. Known for his humanitarian approach to culturally-sensitive environmental issues, his poem ‘Jabiluka Honey’ was shortlisted for the Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize in 2000. Thomas W. Shapcott once compared his environmentalist writing to that of David Campbell, and Patricia Prime, a New Zealand critic and reviewer, has likened his work to that of the American poet [Wallace Stevens] .He also edited the poetry and poetics journal "SideWaLK" (1997-2002).

He lives near Timbertown, New South Wales, with his son.

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" (Sydney, NSW: Puncher & Wattman, 2009 fc)

External links

* [http://www.bigbridge.org/issue9/ozhillman.htm Big Bridge 3 poems]
* [http://as0501.homestead.com/goldenapples.html AnotherSun 3 poems]
* [http://www.sundress.net/stirring/archives/v3/e2/hillmanr.htm Stirring poem]
* [http://outsiderink.com/spotlight/07-01.php OutsiderInk poem]
* [http://www.ascentaspirations.ca/poetry.htm Ascent poem]
* [http://nzpoetsonline.homestead.com/RH12.html New Zealand poems]
* [http://www.papertigermedia.com/hutt/hutt03/hillman.htm Hutt poems]
* [http://www.thylazine.org/archives/thyla10/thyla10f.html Thylazine 20 poems]
* [http://www.pith.net/pith03-01/rhillman.htm Pith poem]

References

Krausmann, Rudi (1998) "Review: "Mending The Dingo Fence" in "Imago" Vol.10, No.1, pp.144-147

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