Paul Hetherington
Paul Hetherington has published 18 full-length collections of poetry, most recently Sleeplessness (Pierian Springs Press, 2023), which won the 2024 inaugural The Marion Halligan Award.
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Paul Hetherington
Paul Hetherington a distinguished Australian poet. He has published 18 full-length collections of poetry, most recently Ragged Disclosures (Recent Work Press, 2022) and Sleeplessness (Pierian Springs Press, 2023), along with a verse novel and 14 chapbooks. He has received more than 50 awards and nominations, including winning the 2014 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards (poetry), the 2021 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize and the inaugural The Marion Halligan Award in the 2024 MARION ACT Literary Awards for the book Sleeplessness. With Cassandra Atherton he co-authored Prose Poetry: An Introduction (Princeton University Press, 2020), and co-edited Ricochet: An Anthology of Microlit (Spineless Wonders, 2025) and the Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry (Melbourne University Press, 2020). He is Emeritus Professor of Writing at the University of Canberra where he founded International Poetry Studies (IPSI) in the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research. He also is a founding editor of the international online journal, Axon: Creative Explorations and a founding editorial committee member of the Meniscus journal. In 2014 he founded the International Prose Poetry Group.
Festival Events
The Art of Brevity vs the Depth of Narrative
DATE April 5 TIME 4:30 pm WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X301BY THE ARTIST
