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Judith Bishop Judith Bishop i(A3724 works by)
Born: Established: 1972 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Female
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Judith Bishop was born in Melbourne, Australia, and has lived in the United States and Britain. Her poems have won a number of awards, including the Peter Porter Poetry Prize (2006, 2011), an Academy of American Poets University prize (2004), and a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship (2002).

She is the author of three collections: Event (Salt Publishing, 2007), which won the FAW Anne Elder Award and was shortlisted for the CJ Dennis Prize, the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, and the ASAL Mary Gilmore Prize; Interval (UQP, 2018), which won the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards – Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and was a finalist in the Melbourne Prize for Literature – Best Writing Award; and Circadia (UQP, 2024). She is also the author of three poetry chapbooks: Alice Missing in Wonderland and Other Poems (Picaro Press, 2008), Aftermarks (Vagabond Press, 2012) and Here Hear (Gazebo Books, 2022).

Her translations from French (Philippe Jaccottet, Gérard Macé) have been published in Australian and international journals.

She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Melbourne, an MFA in Writing from Washington University in St. Louis, and an MPhil in European Literature from the University of Cambridge. 

In recent times, she has worked with a number of composers as a lyricist, including Mastaneh Nazarian (‘Aubade’), Andrew Ford (‘Isolation Hymn’) and Jane Stanley (’14 Weeks’, ‘The Indifferent’).

In 2024, she was announced as La Trobe University's Tracey Banivanua Mar Fellow, supporting her work in AI and inclusivity among linguistically diverse populations.

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Interval St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2018 13514494 2018 selected work poetry

'Bishop’s attentive poetic gaze unfailingly reveals the luminous. In Interval, her poems – many addressed to a lover, or to children – explore intimacy, solitude and the ‘chemical mess’ of human love. As Carl Phillips said of Event, ‘These are splendid poems indeed, whose intelligence, vision, and sheer beauty at every turn persuade.’ '  (Publication summary)

2019 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
2018 finalist Melbourne Prize Best Writing Award
Openings 2011 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 329 2011; (p. 46) Thirty Australian Poets 2011; (p. 38-40)
2011 joint winner Peter Porter Poetry Prize Joint winner with Tony Lintermans (for 'Self-Portrait at Sixty').
T/here i "This is not a place for candles, or the scent of red cedar", 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 299 2008; (p. 41) The Best Australian Poems 2008 2008; (p. 9-10) Alice Missing in Wonderland and Other Poems 2008; (p. 13)
2008 shortlisted Peter Porter Poetry Prize Prize known as the ABR Poetry Prize in 2008.
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