Chris Mansell
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Chris Mansell Contents page
Chris Mansell’ Mortifications & Lies has six books of poetry published and a number of smaller smaller publications. She is widely published in literary journals in Australia and elsewhere has given many live and recorded readings of her work. In 1978 she founded, with Dane Thwaites, the literary magazine Compass poetry & prose which she edited until 1987.
She has lectured in writing at the University of Wollongong and the University of Western Sydney and been writer in residence at a number of universities in Australia, the Katharine Susannah Prichard Centre in Perth, with the Flightpaths project, some theatre companies and was editor in residence at the Royal Australian Historical Society in Sydney. She has been a mentor to nine poets within Australia. In 1988 she attended the National Institute of Dramatic Arts’ (NIDA) Playwright’s Studio and has written a number of plays.
The Fickle Brat was published on CD in audio + text version by Interactive Digital in 2002. In 2005, Kardoorair Press
(http://www.kardoorair.com.au/) published Mortifications & Lies. Margaret Bradstock, writing in Five Bells (vol. 12, no 2, Autumn 2005, p48), said “Mortifications & Lies is an important book, both stylistically and thematically a ground-breaking book. One emerges from the experience of reading it disturbed and challenged. Its haunting rhythms do not easily let go. It reinforces insights many of us already possess, but reminds us of the need to reject complacency, to become involved.”
Mansell was co-director of the Shoalhaven Poetry Festival in 2002 & 2003 and 2005 and publisher of PressPress probably the smallest press in the world.
For further information go to
http://www.chris.mansell.name/
Material available on this site:
Chris Mansell: A selection of poems
A bibliography, immediately below
Chris Mansell: Bibliography, 2005
Chris Mansell has published widely in Australian journals and in journals in Japan, France, Britain, Iran, Germany, Italy and North America.
Anthologies
Australian Verse from 1885: A continuum, ed. Geoffrey Dutton (Currey O’Neill Ross);
Contemporary Australian Verse: an anthology, ed. John Leonard (Houghton Mifflin);Little book of Childhood ed. Paul Cliff (National Library of Australia, 2003);
Off the Record, ed. PiO (Penguin Australia);
101 Poems to Help You Understand Men (and Women) ed Daisy Goodwin (HarperCollins, UK, 2002);
The Oxford Book of Australian Poetry ed P.Porter (Oxford University Press, 1997);
The Oxford Book of Australian Light Verse ed R.F.Brissenden and P.Grundy (Oxford University Press);
The Oxford Book of Australian Love Poetry ed. Jennifer Strauss (Oxford University Press, 1993);
The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets ed. Kate Llewellyn & Susan Hampton (Penguin):
The Sting in the Wattle: Australian Satirical Verse ed. Phillip Neilsen (UQP, 1993);
The Virago Book of Wicked Verse, ed. J.Dawson (Virago, UK, 1992)
Books of poetry
Mortifications & Lies (Kardoorair Press, 2005)
Fickle Brat (CD/ digital, Interactive Digital 2002)
Stalking the Rainbow (PressPress, 2002)
Day Easy Sunlight Fine in Hot Collation (Penguin Books, 1995)
Redshift/ Blueshift (Five Islands Press, 1988)
Head, Heart, & Stone (Fling, 1982)
Small selections of poetry:
Delta (1978); Taking heart (1987); Zoom poems (1988); On the railway near the sea (1992);Words on Words (1998); Being there at the birth (1998); Epitaphs (1998); Death of a poet (1998); the other river (1998); On Edge (1998); honey honey (1999); Good poetry (1999); Fantasy suite (2000); Kardoorair Broadsheet: Appealing the Sentence (2003); [five n twenty] (2004)
Editor:
Poems in Terra Australia (artist’s book by Tommaso Durante published by Arti Grafice Sud, Salerno, Italy, 2003) and other collections
Audio:
Fickle Brat (CD/ digital, Interactive Digital 2002)
Raptors Blue with Rob Cousins (Well Sprung Productions, 1989)
it is made available here for personal use only, and it may not be
stored, displayed, published, reproduced, or used for any other purpose
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