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BiographyHistory

Melbourne poet.

Amanda Anastasi holds a Bachelor of Arts in Professional Writing and Literature from Deakin University.

She has been a member of the Melbourne Poets Union, Australian Poetry Centre and Victorian Writers Centre; has received the Words in Winter Trentham Contemporary Poetry Prize and the Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize; and has published in a wide range of Australian and international periodicals. Her first poetry collection, 2012 and Other Poems, appeared in 2012, and her second, The Silences, co-authored with Robbie Coburn, in 2016.

In 2013, she began the role of curator of La Mama Poetica, which runs regular poetry nights at La Mama theatre spaces.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2021 recipient The Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund to travel the Great Barrier Reef to write a series of poems to raise awareness of climate change impacts
2017 highly commended W. B. Yeats Poetry Prize for Australia for 'Politicians Discussing Global Warming'.
2016 highly commended Adrien Abbott Prize For two poems: 'The Prodigal Ones' and 'Unexiled'.

Awards for Works

Twenty Two One Line Poems by Amanda Anastasi 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , 5 5eptember no. 32 2021;
2021 shortlisted The Woollahra Digital Literary Award Poetry
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