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Australian poet (1940–2023)
Ron Pretty
Born (1940-10-16 ) 16 October 1940Died 30 June 2023(2023-06-30) (aged 82 ) Occupation(s ) Lecturer, poet, teacher Known for Poetry
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Early life [ edit ]
Ronald Keith Pretty was born on the 16 October 1940 in Sydney, New South Wales.[1]
Pretty taught writing at the University of Wollongong and Melbourne University as well as in schools, colleges and a broad variety of community organisations. For a twenty-year period he ran Five Islands Press, publishing some 230 books of poetry[2] Scarp: New Arts and Writing and Blue Dog: Australian Poetry for a number of years.[3] [4] [5]
From 1983 to 1999, Pretty was the Head of Writing in the Faculty of Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong. He was based at the University of Melbourne from 2003 to 2007 where he taught creative writing and was managing editor of Blue Dog: Australian Poetry from 2002 to 2007.
Pretty was instrumental in establishing the Poetry Australia Foundation ,[1] [5] Australian Poetry .[6]
Pretty died on 30 June 2023, at the age of 82.[7]
Recognition [ edit ]
Pretty was awarded the NSW Premier's Award for Poetry and was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to Australian literature in 2002. [1] [8]
In 2012, he spent six months at the Whiting Studio in Rome, having been awarded a residency by the Australia Council for the Arts. He has had residencies at the Tasmanian Writers Centre, the Katherine Susannah Prichard Centre in WA, and at Hill End Artists' Studio in NSW. In 2014, Five Islands Press established the Ron Pretty Poetry Prize in honour of Ron's energy and creative vigour devoted to poetry for more than 40 years. He was admitted as a Fellow of the University of Wollongong in 2015.
Selected works [ edit ]
Collections [ edit ]
The habit of balance . Five Islands Press. 1988.
Bald Hill with Gliders. Five Islands Press 1991
Halfway to Eden. Hale & Ironmonger 1996
Of the Stone: New and Selected Poems. Five Islands Press 2000
Where the Heart Is. Picaro Press 2009
Postcards from the Centre. Profile Poetry 2010
Grace Notes and other poems. Picaro Press 2012
What the Afternoon Knows. Pitt Street Poetry 2013
The Left Hand Mirror. Pitt Street Poetry 2017
101 Poems. Pitt Street Poetry 2022
"What the house knows" (2014)[9]
Non-fiction [ edit ]
Creating Poetry. Five Islands Press 1987, 2001
Nicole: another chance at life. (with Kaye Bowden). Five Islands Press 1993
Practical Poetics. Five Islands Press 2003
As editor [ edit ]
Outlook: an anthology of poems for senior students. Longman Cheshire 1992
Anthology of the Illawarra. Five Islands Press 1994
Cry Out! An anthology of street poetry (with Ann Davis). Five Islands Press 1996
The Argument from Desire: the 1999 Newcastle Prize Anthology. Five Islands Press 1999
Blue Like Tea: an anthology of poems from the Wollongong workshop . Five Islands Press 2000
Wild About the Roof. Wollongong Poetry Workshop 2001
Poems for all Occasions. Five Islands Press 2002
Two Spaces of Poetry: poems from Australia & West Bengal 2006
The Road South: an anthology of contemporary Australian poetry. Kolkata: Bengal Creations 2007
Reviews [ edit ]
Reviews for Ron Pretty's 2013 book, What the Afternoon Knows [10]
John Upton in Cordite Poetry Review [11]
Les Wicks in the Rochford Street Review : "...there is a deep humanity in his observations and as you would expect, the deft hand of a master craftsman."[12]
Geoff Page in the Canberra Times [13]
References [ edit ]
^ "Australian Poetry" (PDF) . Metabolism, members anthology . Retrieved 16 September 2013 .
^ "Welcome" . Poetry Australian Foundation . University of Melbourne . Archived from the original on 27 December 2004.
^ a b Ommundsen, Wenche; Jacklin, Michael (July 2008). "Mapping literature infrastructure in Australia: A report to the Australia Council for the Arts' literature board" . University of Wollongong Research Online Research Online. Australia Council for the Arts and University of Wollongong .
^ "Governance and constitution" . Australian Poetry . 31 October 2012. Retrieved 18 February 2021 .
^ Roberts, Mark (4 July 2023). "Vale Ron Pretty" . Rochford Street Review . Retrieved 5 July 2023 .
^ "Associate Professor Ronald Keith Pretty" . honours.pmc.gov.au . Retrieved 24 March 2019 .
^ Pretty, Ron (Autumn 2014). "What the house knows". Meanjin 73 1 ): 141.
^ "What the Afternoon Knows" . AustLit: Discover Australian Stories . The University of Queensland. Retrieved 28 August 2023 .
^ Upton, John (9 September 2013). "Cordite Poetry Review" . Review Short . Retrieved 16 September 2013 .
^ Wicks, Les (22 August 2013). "Rochford Street Review" . So Honest, So Textured, So Real . Retrieved 16 September 2013 .
^ Page, Geoff. "Canberra Times" (PDF) . A Pretty view of life and time . Retrieved 17 September 2013 .
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