Richard Hillman (poet)

Richard Hillman (born 16 March 1964 in Liverpool, New South Wales) is an Australian poet.

He has published a number of collections, and was a founding editor of the poetry and poetics journal Sidewalk (1997).^[1] His "The Big Wet Takes Hold" (2004) and "The Night Parrot" (2006) were selected among the best Australian poems.^[2][3] In 2001, he was a doctoral student at Flinders University.^[4]

Works

• Mending The Dingo Fence (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 1997)^[5]
• Gone Up River (Adelaide: SideWaLK, 1999)
• No Grounds (Adelaide: SideWaLK/Subverse, 2000)
• Flow: Friendly Street Poetry Reader 25 (co-edited with Heather Sladdin, Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2001).
• Jabiluka Honey: New & Selected Poems (Adelaide: Bookends Books, 2003)
• Timber Country (Warners Bay, NSW: Picaro Press, 2007)
• Raw Nerve (Glebe, NSW: Puncher & Wattmann Press, 2009)^[6]

References

1. Arnold, John; John A. Hay; Sally Batten (2001). The bibliography of Australian literature, Volume 2. U of Queensland P. p. 451. ISBN 978-0-7022-3500-9.
2. Porter, Peter (2005). The Best Australian Poetry 2005. University of Queensland Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-7022-3518-4.
3. Rose, Peter (2007). The Best Australian Poems 2007. Black. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-86395-417-4.
4. Hillman, Richard; Heather Sladdin (2001). Flow. Wakefield Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-86254-543-4.
5. Krausmann, Rudi (1998) "Rev. of Hillman, Mending The Dingo Fence." Imago 10.1, 144–47.
6. Farrel, Michael (22 August 2010). "Michael Farrell Reviews Richard Hillman". Cordite Poetry Review. Retrieved 13 November 2021.

External links

• Big Bridge 3 poems
• New Zealand poems
• Hutt poems