birth_place nationality birth_date article_title name alma_mater
melbourne , victoria , australia australian 30 september 1961 jordie albiston
 jordie albiston victorian college of the arts la trobe university
jordie albiston

jordie albiston -lrb- born 30 september 1961 -rrb- is a contemporary australian poet and academic .
jordie albiston grew up in melbourne , one of three or four children .
she studied flute at the victorian college of the arts before completing a phd in literature .
her first collection of poems , `` nervous arcs '' , won the mary gilmore award , received runner-up in the anne elder award , and was shortlisted for the nsw premier 's prize .
her next two books were documentary collections , respectively concerning the first european women in the port jackson and botany bay settlements , and jean lee , the last woman hanged in australia -lrb- 1951 -rrb- .
`` botany bay document '' was later transformed into a performance work entitled `` dreaming transportation '' by andrée greenwell .
in 2003 , the performance premiered at the sydney festival , and in 2004 was staged again at the sydney opera house featuring deborah conway .
the cd of this work won the grand prix marulic -lrb- croatia -rrb- .
in 2006 , jordie albiston 's biographical verse `` the hanging of jean lee '' was used as the text for an opera created by andrée greenwell .
featuring max sharam , it was first staged at the sydney opera house , the studio .
the libretto of this work was subsequently shortlisted for the victorian premier 's prize for best music-theatre script , and the opera was remounted in melbourne in 2013 .
it is available on cd .
albiston 's fourth book , `` the fall '' , a collection of chained verse , was shortlisted for premier 's prizes in victoria , nsw , and queensland .
this was followed by `` vertigo : a cantata '' , which utilises musical structures and devices in place of traditional organisational techniques and punctuation .
albiston 's sixth collection , `` the sonnet according to 'm , won the 2010 nsw premier 's prize , and received runner-up in the chief minister 's award -lrb- act -rrb- .
`` kindness '' is a hand-bound limited edition artist 's book , with etchings by sheree kinlyside in response to one poem .
`` the book of ethel '' consists of ` perfect square ' syllabic rhymed stanzas , charting the life of albiston 's cornish great grandmother , and `` xiii poems '' brings together uncollected poems written between 2009 and 2013 .
jordie albiston 's work has been well represented in anthologies , including the `` oxford anthology of australian verse '' -lrb- 1998 -rrb- , the `` indigo book of modern australian sonnets '' -lrb- 2003 -rrb- , the `` pen macquarie anthology of australian literature '' -lrb- 2009 -rrb- , the `` penguin anthology of australian poetry '' -lrb- 2009 -rrb- , the `` puncher & wattmann anthology of australian poetry '' -lrb- 2009 -rrb- , `` motherlode : australian women 's poetry 1986-2008 '' -lrb- 2009 -rrb- , `` australian poetry since 1788 '' -lrb- 2011 -rrb- , and `` the turnrow anthology of contemporary australian poetry '' -lrb- usa : 2014 -rrb- .
she is mentioned in `` the cambridge companion to australian literature '' and `` the princeton encyclopedia of poetry & poetics '' -lrb- 4th ed . -rrb- .
other composers having set albiston 's poetry to music include leonard lehrman -lrb- new york -rrb- , barry mckimm -lrb- melbourne -rrb- , raffaele marcellino -lrb- sydney -rrb- and peter skoggard -lrb- canada -rrb- .
albiston was selected by `` the age -lrb- melbourne magazine -rrb- '' for its annual top 100 in 2010 , and is currently featured on the abc radio national podcast `` a pod of poets '' .
in 2014 , she addressed the prestigious sydney institute .
jordie albiston can not be found on facebook , twitter , or other social networking sites .
