Andy Kissane
Andy Kissane is a Melbourne-born, Sydney-based writer. He has won several awards for his writing, including the Sydney Writers' Festival , the Publisher's Cup , the Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry and the BTG- Reviewing prize. In 2011, his book Out to Lunch was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize, one of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.[1] His poem "Searching the Dead" was joint winner of the 2019 Peter Porter Poetry Prize.[2]
Personal life[]
Andy Kissane was born in Melbourne, but moved to Sydney in 1987, where he lives in Sydney with his partner and daughter. He has worked as a high school teacher, writer-in-residence, and university lecturer. He has produced audiobooks and written poetry and fiction. Andy is also a passionate supporter of the Brisbane Lions, coaches basketball and loves gardening, especially bushland regeneration.[1] His older brother is the Australian psychiatrist David Kissane. One of Andy's favourite films is Stranger than fiction - 2006. He has stated that he previously had a crush on actor Maggie Gyllenhaal who played as Ana Pascal in the film.
Bibliography[]
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Poetry[]
- Collections
- Kissane, Andy (1993). Facing the moon. Five Islands Press.
- Every Night They Dance (Five Islands Press, 2000) ISBN 0-86418-544-8
- Out to Lunch (Puncher & Wattmann, 2009) ISBN 978-1-921450-20-4
- List of poems
Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
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My mother's light | 1996 | Kissane, Andy (May 1996). "My mother's light [Breast Tryptych]". Quadrant. 40 (5): 58. | |
Fanny Burney's mastectomy, 1811 | 1996 | Kissane, Andy (May 1996). "Fanny Burney's mastectomy, 1811 [Breast Tryptych]". Quadrant. 40 (5): 58–59. | |
No ending | 1996 | Kissane, Andy (May 1996). "No ending [Breast Tryptych]". Quadrant. 40 (5): 59. |
Novels[]
- Under the Same Sun (Sceptre, 2000) ISBN 978-0-7336-1265-7
References[]
- ^ a b http://andykissane.com/?page_id=41
- ^ "Kissane and Ling win Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2019". Books+Publishing. 19 March 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
External links[]
- 1959 births
- Living people
- Australian poets
- Quadrant (magazine) people