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Mark Tredinnick (123 works by)
Born: Established: 2 Jan 1962 Epping ;
Gender: Male

BiographyHistory

Mark Tredinnick has lived in various parts of New South Wales including the Blue Mountains and the Southern Highlands. He has taught creative writing at The University of Sydney. Tredinnick's poems have appeared in Australian Book Review, Island, Manoa (USA), Mascara, Meanjin, and other Australian and overseas journals. His first collection of poems, The Road South (2008) appears on CD in the River Road series.Tredinnick's essays have appeared in Best Australian Essays and many journals and newspapers. His prose works include The Land's Wild Music (2005) (adapted from his PhD thesis, 'Writing the Wild: Place, Prose and the Ecological Imagination'), The Little Red Writing Book (2006), The Little Green Grammar Book (2008) and The Blue Plateau (2009).

Awards

2011 winner The Newcastle Poetry Prize for 'The Wombat Vedas'
2009 second Josephine Ulrick National Poetry Prize Poem titled 'Red Tulips'

Awards for Works

Margaret River Sestets "There's a continent between us now, taut..." , 2012 poetry single work
2012 winner International Awards Cardiff International Poetry Competition
At Home Alone on a Sunday Trying to Find Nothing to Do , 2011 poetry single work
2011 shortlisted Blake Poetry Prize
Walking Underwater "There is this quietness that hangs over North America...." , 2011 Global Poetry Anthology : Montreal International Poetry Prize , 2011 poetry single work
2011 inaugural winner International Awards Montreal International Poetry Prize