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Keri Glastonbury Keri Glastonbury i(A5907 works by) (a.k.a. Kerry Glastonbury)
Born: Established: 1969 ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Keri Glastonbury completed her PhD in Creative Writing at UTS in 2004 with a dissertation on grunge poetics. She also lectured in creative writing at UTS. In 2006, she moved to the University of Newcastle for a position as a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Newcastle.

Her poetry has been widely published, including in three collections (Hygienic Lily, Super-Regional, and Grit Salute) and she has received several grants from the Australia Council. She was formerly the poetry editor of Overland.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2020 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships — Individuals and groups ($17,500)
2014 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships New Work - Emerging Writers 14-15 Poetry
2009 recipient Asialink Arts Exchanges Program A residency based at The Australian Studies Centre at Himachal Pradesh University, India, to work on various DIY life-writing projects, engaging with the local literary community.
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Newcastle Sonnets Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2018 13865303 2018 selected work poetry

'Once a working-class heartland, Newcastle is now acclaimed as one of the top 5 hipster cities in the world. In the sequence of sonnets which compose her homage to Newcastle, Glastonbury celebrates the city's oddities and contradictions, remixing the material effects of gentrification with the regional vernacular and punk drama of locally based social media – blogs, Tumblr, Instagram, Facebook and Google Maps. An antipodean, regional queering of Ted Berrigan’s New York-based Sonnets, Glastonbury’s poems make music from what's around, embracing both DIY chutzpah and the swipes, likes, and filtered screens of internet culture. This is Newcastle in cosplay, part eggs benedict, part pebblecrete, where a coal boat named 'Fiction' is always approaching the shore.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
2019 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Judith Wright Calanthe Award
2019 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Poetry
Anti-Suburb i "these zones are too liminal", 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: FourW , no. 16 2005; (p. 3-6)
2005 inaugural winner The Booranga Prize — The Booranga Prize for Poetry
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