Tim Metcalf
Appearance
Tim Metcalf is an Australian poet and doctor and has been described as one of Australia's most published doctor-poets.[1]
He lives at Brogo, New South Wales. He has specialized in remote area medicine since 1984 and has worked in NSW, Victoria, NT and British Columbia.[2] In 2007 he was awarded the ACT Writing and Publishing Awards poetry award for his anthology of poems Verbal Medicine..[3] Verbal Medicine is his fourth book.
He was awarded First Prize in the Annual Australian W B Yeats Poetry Prize in 2000 for his entry 'Stages of Dying"
Bibliography
- Corvus, Ginninderra Press Canberra 2001 ISBN 1740271149
- Cut to the Word, Ginninderra Press Canberra 2002 ISBN 1740271688
- Into the No Zone, Ginninderra Press Canberra 2003 ISBN 174027167X
- Verbal Medicine, Ginninderra Press, Canberra, 2006 ISBN 1-74027-369-9
- The Solution to Us, Ginninderra Press Adelaide 2008 ISBN 1-74027-473-3
- The Effective Butterfly, Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide 2010 ISBN 9781740276542
- Last To Go and Other Poems, Picaro Press, Cardiff NSW 2012
- The Underwritten Plain, Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide 2018 ISBN 9781760415778
References
- ^ If Pain Persists by Steve Trumble MD in Australian Family Physician Vol. 34, No. 8, August 2005
- ^ Biography - 9th National Rural Health Conference 2007
- ^ Local Writer's Poetry Prize, Bega News, 21 Dec 2007
External links
- Tim Metcalf's Home Page contains poems and essays, a full bibliography, readings in medical literature developed for Australian National University Medical School, and the Poets of the Bega Valley Audio Project
- Review of Verbal Medicine by Dr Jim Leavesley, Australian Doctor, 1 Feb 2007