Jeanine Leane
Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri poet, essayist and critic. Her most recent work gawimarra gathering is a work of First Nations nonfiction poetry.
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Jeanine Leane
Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer, poet and academic from southwest New South Wales. Her poetry, short stories, critique, and essays have been published in Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women’s Liberation Australian Poetry Journal, Antipodes, Overland and the Sydney Review of Books. Jeanine has published widely in Aboriginal literature, writing otherness, literary critique, and creative non-fiction. She was the recipient of the University of Canberra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Poetry Prize, and she has won the Oodgeroo Noonucal Prize for Poetry twice (2017 & 2019). She was the 2019 recipient of the Red Room Poetry Fellowship for her project called Voicing the Unsettled Space: Rewriting the Colonial Mythscape. Jeanine taught Creative Writing and Aboriginal Literature at the University of Melbourne from 2016-2023. She is the recipient of three Australian Research Council (ARC) Fellowships on First Nations writing. In 2020 Jeanine edited Guwayu – for all times – a collection of First Nations Poetry commissioned by Red Room Poetry and published by Magabala Books. In 2021 she was the recipient of the School of Literature Art and Media (SLAM) Poetry Prize University of Sydney and in 2023,
the winner of the David Harold Tribe Prize for Poetry – Australia’s richest poetry prize. Jeanine’s latest collection gawimarra was published by UQP 2024.
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The Limits of Language: Poetry as Protest
DATE April 6 TIME 10:00 am WHEREWatt Space Gallery Book nowBY THE ARTIST
