Jennifer Harrison (poet)

Jennifer Harrison. Courtesy Black Pepper Publishing.

Jennifer Harrison (born 1955) is a contemporary Australian poet, psychiatrist, and photographer.

Life

Harrison was born in Liverpool, a suburb of Sydney. She studied medicine and then specialised in psychiatry. She published her first volume of poetry, Michelangelo's Prisoners, in 1994.

Having lived in the United States and New Zealand, Harrison currently resides in Melbourne and is employed as a child psychiatrist.

Recognition

Harrison won the 1995 Anne Elder Award and was short-listed for the 2000 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry.

Her photography has been exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria.

Publications

Poetry

• Michelangelo's Prisoners. Melbourne: Black Pepper, 1994; Collingwood, Vic: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 1995.
• Mosaics & Mirrors: Composite poems (with Graham Henderson & K.F. Pearson). North Fitzroy, Vic: Black Pepper, 1996.
• Cabramatta / Cudmirrah. North Fitzroy, Vic: Black Pepper, 1996.
• Dear B. North Fitzroy, Vic: Black Pepper, 1998.
• Changzhuo's Bees, and other poems. Warners Bay, NSW: Picaro Press, 2004.
• Folly & Grief. North Fitzroy, Vic: Black Pepper, 2006.
• Colombine: New & selected poems. Fitzroy North, Vic : Black Pepper, 2010.

Edited

• Said the Rat! Writers at the Water Rat, 2000-2002 (edited with Phil Ilton). North Fitzroy, Vic: Black Pepper, 2003.
• Motherlode: Australian women's poetry, 1986-2008 (edited with Kate Waterhouse). Glebe, NSW: Puncher & Wattmann, 2009.

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.

See also

• List of Australian poets

External links

Poems

• Jennifer Harrison:Three poems in Perihelion
• Jennifer Harrison: Three poems in Salt Magazine
• Jennifer Harrison (1955– ) in the Australian Poetry Library (81 poems).

About

• Jennifer Harrison Biography at Black Pepper
• review of Folly & Grief, Australian Poetry Review.