Andrew Burke (poet)

Andrew Burke (born 1944 in Melbourne, Victoria, died 23 May 2023 in Perth) was a contemporary Australian poet.[1]

Andrew Burke
Burke in 2023
Burke in 2023
Born1944
Melbourne, Victoria
Died23 May 2023
Perth, Western Australia
OccupationWriter
NationalityAustralian
GenrePoetry
Website
hispirits.blogspot.com

Early in his working life, Burke pursued a career in advertising as a copywriter and creative director.

In the 1970s he had received prizes: the Thomas Wardle poetry prize of 1973,[2] and in 1977 the Tom Collins poetry prize.[3]

He switched to academia as a literature and creative writing lecturer in middle age. He received a MA in writing from Edith Cowan University in 2002, and a PhD in writing in 2006.

He has lectured in Australia and China, and read his poetry to audiences of all ages in the United Kingdom, Singapore, China, and throughout Australia.

His poetry has been included in Western Australian and Australian anthologies.[4]

Collections of his poems exist online,[5][6] and his blog included poetry.[7][8] Burke died in May 2023.[9]

Works
  • 1975 Let's face the music & dance[10]
  • 1983 On the tip of my tongue[11]
  • 1992 Mother waits for father late[12]
    • (reprinted in 2010) by Picaro Press, Warners Bay, N.S.W. ISBN 978-1-920957-97-1
  • 1996 Pushing at silence Applecross, W.A.: Folio (Salt), ISBN 0-646-29751-1[13]
  • 2001 Whispering Gallery Cottesloe, W.A.: Sunline Press, ISBN 0-9579515-0-7
  • 2003 Knock on wood : and other poems Warners Bay, N.S.W. : Picara Press, Wagtail (series), 1444-8424; 18
  • 2009 Beyond City Limits International Centre for Landscape and Language, Edith Cowan University, Mt Lawley, W.A. ISBN 978-0-646-52005-6
  • 2011 Blue Rose Etext Press ISBN 978-1-921968-09-9 also found at Smashwords[14]
  • 2011 Qwerty : take my word for it Kalgoorlie, W.A. :Mulla Mulla Press ISBN 978-0-9870771-2-7
  • 2012 Shikibu Shuffle with Phil Hall[15]
  • 2012 Undercover of Lightness North Hobart, Tas.: Walleah Press ISBN 978-1-877010-16-3[16]
  • 2014 One Hour Seeds Another North Hobart, Tas.: Walleah Press[17][18]
  • 2017 The Line is Busy[19]

Notes
  1. Bladen, Emma Andrew Burke – biography of W.A. poet, Subiaco Post 7 July 1992, p.6 and 55
  2. Sir Thomas Wardle Literary Prize Competition 1973, Bunbury Arts Promotion Council, 1973, retrieved 13 May 2019
  3. Darby, Patricia, 1934-; Fellowship of Australian Writers. W.A. Branch (1998), Sudden alchemy : selected Australian poetry, Fellowship of Australian Writers, W.A. Branch, ISBN 978-0-909497-88-0{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. Andrew Burke p.10-11 of Veronica Brady editor (1976)Soundings: a selection of Western Australian poetry Fremantle, W.A. : Fremantle Arts Centre Press
  5. "Foam:e 6 - Andrew Burke".
  6. 'Peripatetica' edition of Landscapes Issue 1, Volume 4 of the International Centre for Landscape and Language at Edith Cowan University – "Latest Journals". Archived from the original on 4 November 2010. Retrieved 19 September 2010.
  7. "Next Monthly Blogger – Andrew Burke!". Southerly. 28 October 2011. Archived from the original on 28 November 2011.
  8. "Home". hispirits.blogspot.com.
  9. https://www.westannouncements.com.au/browse/obituaries/view/burke-andrew, https://www.westannouncements.com.au/browse/funeral-notices/view/burke-andrew-1
  10. Burke, Andrew; Jennings, Murray (1980), [Poetry of Andrew Burke], retrieved 6 October 2016
  11. Burke, Andrew; Burke, Andrew, 1944-. [Poems. Selections] (1983), On the tip of my tongue : poems, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, ISBN 978-0-909144-75-3{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. Burke, Andrew; Burke, Andrew, 1944-. [Poems. Selections] (1992), Mother waits for father late, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, ISBN 978-1-86368-014-1{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  13. Reviewed by Bev Braune Poems of Memory Grammar ABR April 1997 pp.57-58
  14. http://www.smashwords.com/extreader/read/163072/1/blue-rose
  15. Mclennan, Rob (14 March 2012). "above/ground press: new from above/ground press: Shikibu Shuffle, a collaboration between Andrew Burke and Phil Hall". above/ground press. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
  16. "The Ruthless Eye: Rae Desmond Jones reviews 'Undercover of Lightness' by Andrew Burke". Rochford Street Review. 16 August 2012. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
  17. Nathan Hondros reviews One Hour Seeds Another in The Rochford Street Review
  18. Pont,AE (14 November 2014), Review Short: Andrew Burke's One Hour Seeds Another and Nicola Bowery's married to this ground, Cordite Press, retrieved 12 March 2019
  19. Burke, Andrew (2016), The line is busy = Zhan xian, Fan, Xing, (translator); 樊星, (translator), Flying Islands Poetry Community; Association of Stories in Macao and Cerberus, ISBN 9789996557064
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