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Nicolette Stasko Nicolette Stasko i(A14806 works by)
Born: Established: 1950 Pennsylvania,
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas,
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Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: 1979
Heritage: American
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BiographyHistory

Born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, of Polish and Hungarian parents, Nicolette Stasko arrived in Perth and later moved to Canberra where she became an editor of the Phoenix Review. She has received a Bachelor of Arts (English) degree from Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Arts (English) degree at Lehigh University. She has worked as a secondary and creative writing teacher and in communications research and editing, writing Standard letters : how standard are they? : what do they really say? (1992) demonstrating her ability to distill text gleaned from writing poetry. Her book Abundance was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Awards (1993).

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon J. S. Harry : New and Selected Poems Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2021 23750472 2021 selected work poetry

'When J.S. Harry died in 2015 she was acknowledged as one of the great women poets of her generation. This commemorative volume gathers poems from all of her collections, as well as new poems written in the last years of her life.

'As the use of initials in her writing name suggests, J.S. Harry was a very private person. She was also gentle, kind, solicitous and endlessly curious – she would probe, enquire, pursue – everything seemed interesting to her. And she had another quality which was extraordinary, and which, along with her shyness and curiosity, is such a powerful presence in her poetry: this was her attentiveness to the life of the natural world and its creatures. Her poems typically take a quizzical stance, which holds a strange or complex moment up to scrutiny, and then pursues its implications. Her attention is caught by the smallest effects of nature and the delicate responses of animals – and also by the gestures and words of human beings, finely observed, with a sense of the mystery or menace they contain. The effect is often comic or surreal, but it can also be fierce, in its condemnation of oppression. It is enhanced by her mastery of the poetic line – the pause, the variation in length, the sudden shift in emphasis or perspective – and above all by her awareness of language.

'The poems included in New and Selected Poems were chosen by J.S. Harry herself, in collaboration with her long-time friend, the poet Nicolette Stasko.'(Publication summary)

2022 shortlisted APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Non Fiction Book designed by Jenny Grigg.
y separately published work icon Abundance Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1992 Z553175 1992 selected work poetry humour
1993 shortlisted NBC Banjo Awards NBC Turnbull Fox Phillips Poetry Prize
1992 winner Anne Elder Award
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