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Dick Alderson Dick Alderson i(A79757 works by)
Born: Established: 1941 Perth, Western Australia, ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

A former engineer, Dick Alderson started writing poetry in 1994. In 2007 he was a member of the Fremantle based Out of the Asylum writers' group (q.v.).

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2021 highly commended Tom Collins Poetry Prize for 'Butcher Bird'.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon The Astronomer’s Wife Cottesloe : Sunline Press , 2014 8468835 2014 selected work poetry

'Dick Alderson’s collection presents a wonderfully accessible poetry that draws on memories and acute observation. “Skein” recalls holding “the soft thread” of wool for his mother “in an almost embrace”. His is a quiet, gentle nature poetry. He listens as a “windmill groans and wheezes”; showing his equal adroitness with simile and metaphor, ibis are “like old aunts doing a chore thoroughly” and lemons are “tart sacs shaped like tears”. When fruit bats fly with “a dull umbrella-opening flop and flap” we become aware of his frequent playfulness, Alderson’s bats an Australian version of Yeats’s wild swans at Coole.' (Publication summary)

2014 commended Anne Elder Award
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