Eric Beach
Eric Beach (born 1947), is a New Zealand and Australian poet, playwright, and short story writer.
Biography[]
Born in New Zealand, Beach has lived in Tasmania and in Victoria since 1972.[1] He is active in the Australian Performance Poetry scene, performing at workshops, readings and events around Australia.[2]
His publication Weeping for Lost Babylon won the 1996 Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize, and was joint winner of the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry.[3]
He now resides in Minyip, Victoria in Australia.
Publications[]
- Weeping for Lost Babylon (Harper Collins, 1996)
- Red Heart My Country (Pardalote Press, 2000)
- Saint Kilda Meets Hugo Ball (Gargoyles Press, 1974)
- In Occupied Territory (The Saturday Centre, 1977)
- A Photo of Some People in a Football Stadium (Overland, 1978)
- Hey Hey Brass Buttons (1990)
References[]
- ^ Australian Poets and Their Works, by William Wilde, Oxford University Press, 1996
- ^ http://www.thylazine.org/directory/directb/ Archived 5 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine The Thylazine Foundation: Arts, Ethics and Literature.
- ^ "Australian Poetry Library".
Categories:
- Australian poets
- New Zealand poets
- New Zealand male writers
- Australian male poets
- 1947 births
- Living people
- New Zealand emigrants to Australia
- Australian writer stubs