Lisa Gorton

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Lisa Gorton (born 1972) is an Australian poet, novelist, literary editor and essayist.[1] She is the author of three award-winning poetry collections: Press Release,[2] Hotel Hyperion [3], and Empirical.[4] Her novel The Life of Houses, received the NSW Premier’s People’s Choice Award for Fiction,[5] and the Prime Minister’s Award for Fiction (shared).[6] Gorton is also the editor of Black Inc’s anthology Best Australian Poems 2013.[7]

Gorton’s poetry has been widely anthologised, including in The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry,[8] edited by John Kinsella, the Best Australian Poems series (2008,[9] 2009,[10] 2010,[11] 2011,[12] 2012,[13] 2014,[14] 2015[15]), Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry, edited by Bonny Cassidy and Jessica Wilkinson,[16] the Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry,  edited by Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington,[17] the Poetry Magazine May 2016 selection of Australian poetry, edited by Bob Adamson with photos by Juno Gemes,[18] and online anthologies Poetry International [19] and lyrikline.[20] Lisa’s poetry can also be found online at ‘Cordite’ magazine.[21] Gorton’s essays have been published in the Sydney Review of Books [22] and Australian Book Review,[23] and in the essay collection Australian Face, edited by James Ley and Catriona Menzies-Pike.[24] Gorton wrote the introductory essay for the Text Classics reissue of Christina Stead’s novel The Little Hotel.[25] Lisa also wrote the catalogue essay for Izabela Pluta’s artwork Apparent Distance in the 2019 exhibitionThe National at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.[26]

Gorton is interested in ekphrastic poetry. She has composed a series of poems for Izabela Pluta’s artist’s book Figures of Slippage and Oscillation.[27] Lisa has also written ekphrastic poems for the catalogue of the 2010 Adelaide Biennial of Contemporary Art Before and After Science,[28] for the exhibition Conversations in Ellipsis,[29] and for the Melbourne Now limited edition volume from the National Gallery of Victoria.[30]

Lisa gave a poetry reading at TEDx Sydney.[31]

Education[]

Gorton was educated at the University of Melbourne and at Oxford University.[19] At Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, Gorton completed an MPhil in Renaissance Literature and a DPhil on John Donne.[19] She received the John Donne Society Award for Outstanding Publication in Donne Studies.[32]

Career[]

In 1994 she was awarded the inaugural Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize.[33]

Having previously worked as poetry editor for the literary journal, Gorton was the Australian Book Review's Poet of the Month in October 2019.[34][35] Gorton has contributed essays to the Australian Book Review[34] and the Sydney Review of Books.[36] As of 2021, she is poetry editor of Island.[37]

She is the granddaughter of the former Prime Minister John Gorton.[33]

Awards and recognition[]

Gorton’s awards for poetry include the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry,[23] the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize,[32] and the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal.[38] Her novel The Life of Houses was awarded the New South Wales Premier’s People’s Choice Award, and the Prime Minister’s Fiction Prize.[5]  

Lisa’s poetry books have also been shortlisted in the Prime Minister’s Prize for Poetry,[39] the Mary Gilmore Poetry Prize,[40] the Melbourne Prize for Literature Best Writing Award,[41] and the NSW Premier’s Poetry Award.[42]

Critical Response[]

On Empirical

Jessica Wilkinson, poet and editor of Rabbit magazine, interviewed Gorton about her poetry collection Empirical, noting Lisa’s interest in ‘how a feeling for place originates’.[50] In The Sydney Review of Books, poet and critic Michael Farrell suggests that Gorton’s poetry collection Empirical offers ‘models of 3D thought’, remarking that ‘Gorton reanimates - and translates - historical textual materials into contemporary poetry’, and that her work ‘performs as an antidote to nationalist ideology’.[51] In The Sydney Morning Herald, James Antoniou writes: ‘an important voice is breaking through here: assured, polyphonic and, for all its quietness, visionary’.[52]

On The Life of Houses

In the Sydney Review of Books, Kerryn Goldsworthy writes about Gorton’s debut novel The Life of Houses:[53] ‘One of the main reasons for Gorton’s status as a highly respected, prize-winning Australian poet is her unique and personal angle of vision on the world. It’s something that, as Auden surmises, cannot be taught…For Gorton it seems not so much a matter of finding le mot juste as of making something entirely new: not merely choosing the word or naming the non-verbal thing it represents, but of using metaphor to create a new and separate third entity in which a word or phrase brings an inchoate, intangible feeling, sensation or memory out of the shadows and into the sunlight of consciousness’.

Works[]

Poetry[]

  • Press Release, Giramondo, 2007 ISBN 978-1-920882-34-1
  • Hotel Hyperion, Giramondo, 2012 ISBN 978-1-922146-27-4
  • Empirical, Giramondo, 2019 ISBN 978-1-925818-11-6

Individual poems have been published in Heat magazine,[54] Poetry magazine,[55] The Best Australian Poems 2008,[56] The Best Australian Poems 2009,[57] The Best Australian Poems 2010,[58] The Best Australian Poems 2012.[59]

Novels[]

  • Cloudland, Pan Macmillan Australia, 2008 ISBN 978-1-741982-72-5
  • The Life of Houses, Giramondo, 2015 ISBN 978-1-922146-80-9

Edited[]

  • The Best Australia Poems 2013, Black Inc[60]

References[]

  1. ^ "HOME". Mysite. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Press Release". Giramondo Publishing. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Hotel Hyperion". Giramondo Publishing. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Empirical". Giramondo Publishing. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b "Joanne Burns and Lisa Gorton Winners of NSW Premier's Literary Awards". Giramondo Publishing. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  6. ^ Guardian Staff (8 November 2016). "Prime Minister's Literary awards 2016: Lisa Gorton and Charlotte Wood share fiction prize". the Guardian. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  7. ^ The Best Australian Poems 2013 by Lisa Gorton. 17 September 2013.
  8. ^ The Turnrow anthology of contemporary Australian poetry. John Kinsella. Monroe, LA. 2014. ISBN 978-0-9703964-1-9. OCLC 887100989.CS1 maint: others (link)
  9. ^ The best Australian poems 2008. Peter Rose. Melbourne: Black Inc. 2008. ISBN 1-86395-303-5. OCLC 277159164.CS1 maint: others (link)
  10. ^ The best Australian poems 2009. Robert Adamson. Melbourne: Black Inc. 2009. ISBN 978-1-86395-452-5. OCLC 472529846.CS1 maint: others (link)
  11. ^ The best Australian poems 2010. Robert Adamson. Melbourne: Black Inc. 2010. ISBN 978-1-86395-496-9. OCLC 681623372.CS1 maint: others (link)
  12. ^ The best Australian poems 2011. John Tranter. Collingwood, Vic.: Black Inc. 2011. ISBN 978-1-86395-549-2. OCLC 759871511.CS1 maint: others (link)
  13. ^ The best Australian poems 2012. John Tranter. Collingwood, Vic.: Black Inc. 2012. ISBN 978-1-86395-581-2. OCLC 816172127.CS1 maint: others (link)
  14. ^ Best Australian Poems 2014. Geoff Page. Collingwood: Schwartz Publishing Pty, Limited. ISBN 978-1-86395-697-0. OCLC 890933149.CS1 maint: others (link)
  15. ^ Page, Geoff (2015). Best Australian poems 2015. Collingwood, Vic, Australia. ISBN 978-1-86395-779-3. OCLC 913499999.
  16. ^ Contemporary Australian feminist poetry. Bonny Cassidy, Jessica L. Wilkinson. St Lucia, Qld. 2016. ISBN 978-0-9943528-7-3. OCLC 954346443.CS1 maint: others (link)
  17. ^ The anthology of Australian prose poetry. Cassandra L. Atherton, Paul Hetherington. Carleton, Victoria, Australia. 2020. ISBN 978-0-522-87475-4. OCLC 1202463618.CS1 maint: others (link)
  18. ^ Foundation, Poetry (25 June 2021). "May 2016 | Poetry Magazine". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  19. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Lisa Gorton (poet) - Australia - Poetry International". www.poetryinternational.org. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  20. ^ "DREAMS AND ARTEFACTS (Lisa Gorton)". www.lyrikline.org. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  21. ^ "Lisa Gorton". Cordite Poetry Review. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  22. ^ "Lisa Gorton". Sydney Review of Books. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  23. ^ Jump up to: a b "Lisa Gorton". www.australianbookreview.com.au. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  24. ^ "The Australian Face". Giramondo Publishing. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  25. ^ The Little Hotel, book by Christina Stead. 3 October 2016. ISBN 978-1-925355-73-4.
  26. ^ "Artists | The National". www.the-national.com.au. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  27. ^ "Izabela Pluta – Figures of slippage and oscillation". Perimeter Books. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  28. ^ Before and after science : 2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. Charlotte Day, Sarah Tutton, Art Gallery of South Australia. Adelaide, S. Aust.: Art Gallery of South Australia. 2010. ISBN 978-1-921668-00-5. OCLC 495095414.CS1 maint: others (link)
  29. ^ "Conversations in ellipsis: an exercise in affect & association... time & (e)motion studies, or things unsaid". Artlink Magazine. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  30. ^ Melbourne now. Max Delany, Fleur Watson, Isobel Crombie, Nikos Papastergiadis, Maggie Finch, Judith Ryan. Melbourne. 2013. ISBN 978-0-7241-0376-8. OCLC 857900583.CS1 maint: others (link)
  31. ^ "Lisa Gorton". TEDxSydney. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  32. ^ Jump up to: a b Zetl, Red Room Poetry ABN: 35 103 464 446 Joynton Avenue Creative Centre 3A Joynton Ave; redroompoetry.org, NSW 2017 Australia Phone: 02 9319 5090. "Lisa Gorton". Red Room Poetry. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  33. ^ Jump up to: a b c Sullivan, Jane (17 April 2015). "Lisa Gorton: Prize-winning poet writes her first novel". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  34. ^ Jump up to: a b "Lisa Gorton". Australian Book Review. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  35. ^ "Lisa Gorton is Poet of the Month". Australian Book Review. No. 415. October 2019. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  36. ^ "Lisa Gorton". Sydney Review of Books. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  37. ^ "Meet the Team". Island magazine. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  38. ^ "Lisa Gorton". Giramondo Publishing. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  39. ^ Office for the Arts, Department of Infrastructure (9 September 2020). "Empirical". www.arts.gov.au. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  40. ^ "Lisa Gorton". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
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  42. ^ "Empirical". www.newsouthbooks.com.au. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  43. ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: Winners and Shortlist 2008, State Library of Victoria". 3 January 2009. Archived from the original on 3 January 2009. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
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  45. ^ "2014 Premier's Book Awards". State Library of Western Australia. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  46. ^ "Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal". Mildura Writers Festival. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  47. ^ "Winners and shortlist". Department of Communications and the Arts. 2 November 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  48. ^ "The Life of Houses by Lisa Gorton". www.angusrobertson.com.au. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  49. ^ "NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 20 March 2020. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  50. ^ "Jessica L. Wilkinson interviews Lisa Gorton". Rabbit Poetry. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  51. ^ "Uncrushed Local Thought | Michael Farrel reviews Empircal by Lisa Gorton". Sydney Review of Books. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  52. ^ Antoniou, James (2 August 2019). "The place of poetry and the poetry of place". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  53. ^ "The Life of Houses | Lisa Gorton | Review |". Sydney Review of Books. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  54. ^ "About Giramondo | Giramondo Publishing Company". Giramondo Publishing. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  55. ^ "Lisa Gorton". Poetry Foundation. 22 March 2020. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  56. ^ The best Australian poems 2008. Rose, Peter. Melbourne: Black Inc. 2008. ISBN 978-1-86395-303-0. OCLC 277159164.CS1 maint: others (link)
  57. ^ The best Australian poems 2009. Adamson, Robert. Melbourne: Black Inc. 2009. ISBN 978-1-86395-452-5. OCLC 472529846.CS1 maint: others (link)
  58. ^ The best Australian poems 2010. Adamson, Robert, 1943-. Melbourne: Black Inc. 2010. ISBN 978-1-86395-496-9. OCLC 681623372.CS1 maint: others (link)
  59. ^ The best Australian poems 2012. Tranter, John (John Ernest), 1943-. Collingwood, Vic.: Black Inc. 2012. ISBN 978-1-86395-581-2. OCLC 816172127.CS1 maint: others (link)
  60. ^ The best Australian poems 2013. Gorton, Lisa, 1972-. Collingwood, VIC. 2013. ISBN 978-1-86395-627-7. OCLC 867108727.CS1 maint: others (link)

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