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Emily Stewart Emily Stewart i(A101899 works by) (a.k.a. Emily Anne Stewart)
Also writes as: 'Bernie Malley'
Born: Established: 1987 ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Stewart grew up in Junee. She graduated with an Honours degree in English literature from the Australian National University in 2009. She has been commissioning editor of Seizure, and a book editor at NewSouth Publishing. In 2014, she was a resident artist at the Arteles Creative Centre, Finland. Her first collection of poetry, Knocks, was published in 2016. In 2018, she was poetry editor at Giramondo Publishing.

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Running Time Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2022 23670467 2022 selected work poetry

'A fine-tuned book-length assemblage of dispersed ‘cerebral offcuts’, virtuosically inventing ‘the shape of a mood’. Nimble and light, precise and seemingly casual: ‘following some line’ of ‘live consciousness’, ‘inner in outer’, ‘what’s around’. Amid doubt, shame, need and fear, there is courage and insouciance, the subtle pleasure of stretching meaning into a variety of imaginative spaces that open up the limits of conventional language and syntax. Condensed, sharp pops of resonant fragments create their own fresh textures and juxtapositions.

'The Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award 2021 judges (Kate Lilley, Pam Brown and Melinda Bufton) praised Running Time as 'nimble and light, precise and seemingly casual ... Amid doubt, shame, need and fear, there is courage and insouciance, the subtle pleasure of stretching meaning into a variety of imaginative spaces that open up the limits of conventional language and syntax.' (Publication summary)

2021 winner Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest
y separately published work icon Knocks Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2016 9539400 2016 selected work poetry

'Knocks is the debut collection from one of the most exacting writers of Australian poetry’s new wave. Stewart’s poetry consistently surprises in its formal range, encompassing sonnets, erasures and found poetry, and striking at the level of the image –“the computer ecstasy of first-person”. The collection conveys the sense of an extended, “stretched” present, politically shadowed, where “it is commendable / to sign up each day, but better / to maintain a patina of disobedient / actions, shoplifting or whatever”.' (Source: Publisher's website)

2015 inaugural winner The Noel Rowe Poetry Award Manuscript title: Up High
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