Gregory Day

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Gregory Day is an Australian novelist, poet, and musician.

Life[]

Gregory Day is a novelist, poet, essayist and musician based in Victoria, Australia. He is well known for his Mangowak novels, which document generational, demographic, and environmental change on the 21st-century coast of southwest Victoria, Australia, and also for novels such as Archipelago of Souls and A Sand Archive, which explore the possibilities of finding the right balance between nature and culture through investigating the experience of the Australian character abroad. He has been much acclaimed for his place-based nature essays, and also for his musical compositions and field recordings, notably his settings and singing of the poetry of William Butler Yeats on the album The Black Tower, and his project The Flash Road, which narrates, in a sung and highly choreographic style, the building of the Great Ocean Road in southwest Victoria in the years following The Great War.

Awards and nominations[]

• Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best First Book, 2006: The Patron Saint of Eels — shortlisted
• Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, 2006: The Patron Saint of Eels — winner
• New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, 2008: Ron McCoy's Sea of Diamonds: A Novel — shortlisted
• Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, 2011: The Neighbour's Beans — winner
• , 2017: A Smile at Arm's Length — winner
• Tasmanian Premier's Literary Prizes, Tasmania Book Prize, 2017: Archipelago of Souls — shortlisted
• Nature Conservancy, Australia Nature Writing Prize, 2019: Summer On The Painkalac — shortlisted
• Miles Franklin Award, 2019: A Sand Archive — shortlisted^[1]
• Patrick White Literary Award, 2020 — winner^[2]
• Nature Conservancy Australia Nature Writing Prize, 2021 – winner^[3]

Bibliography[]

Novels[]

• The Patron Saint of Eels (2005)
• Ron McCoy's Sea of Diamonds (2007)
• The Grand Hotel (2010)
• Archipelago of Souls (2015)
• A Sand Archive (2018)

Artist Books[]

• visitors - with Jiri Tibor Novak (2012)
• A Smile At Arm's Length — with Jiri Tibor Novak (2016)

Poetry[]

• Six Different Ways (1999) — with Kieran Carroll and Michael Farrell etc.
• Trace (in collaboration with photographer Robert Ashton) (2003)
• A Smile At Arm's Length (2016)

Music[]

• Untitled Red: No Evangelism (1992)
• Barroworn: Mangowak Days (1995)
• The Black Tower: Songs From The Poetry of W. B. Yeats (1998)
• Trace soundtrack with Silver Ray (2003)
• The Flash Road: Scenes From The Building Of The Great Ocean Road (2005)
• The Ampliphones: Emotional Patterns of a New Climate (2015)
• Rejectamenta: From Real to Imagined Seaweed (2021)

Interviews[]

• "ABC Radio National Books and Arts" [1] July 2015
• "ABC Radio National Book Show" [2] - 21 May 2008

Selected newspaper features and literary criticism[]

• Through The Prism Of Ancient Practice"
• Betraying The Loch"
• The Submerged Moon - Nora Webster by Colm Toibin"
• Arthur Streeton In Lorne"
• To Know Calvino"
• On Chris Andrews and Roberto Bolano"
• Hovering Around A Tiny Island Paradise"
• In Praise of the All Powerful Fungi"

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