Ron Pretty
Ron Pretty AM | |
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| Born | 1940 |
| Occupation(s) | Teacher, Poet |
| Known for | Poetry |
Ron Pretty is an Australian poet, publisher and teacher.
He has taught writing in the University of Wollongong and Melbourne University as well as in schools, colleges and a broad variety of community organisations. For a twenty-year period he ran Five Islands Press publishing some 230 books of poetry[1] and mentored many Australian poets. He edited the magazines Scarp:New Arts and Writing and Blue Dog:Australian Poetry for a number of years.[2]
Ron Pretty was instrumental in establishing the Poetry Australia Foundation.[3] He was awarded the NSW Premier's Award for Poetry and was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to Australian literature in 2002.[3][4]
Bibliography
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Poetry
Collections
- Pretty, Ron (1988). The habit of balance. Five Islands Press.
- Bald Hill with Gliders. Five Islands Press 1991
- Halfway to Eden. Hale & Ironmonger 1996
- Of the Stone: New and Selected Poems. Five Islands Press 2000
- Where the Heart Is. Picaro Press 2009
- Postcards from the Centre. Profile Poetry 2010
- Grace Notes and other poems. PIcaro Press 2012
- What the Afternoon Knows. Pitt Street Poetry 2013
As editor
- Outlook: an anthology of poems for senior students. Longman Cheshire 1992
- Anthology of the Illawarra. Five Islands Press 1994
- Cry Out! An anthology of street poetry (with Ann Davis). Five Islands Press 1996
- The Argument from Desire: the 1999 Newcastle Prize Anthology. Five Islands Press 1999
- Blue Like Tea: an anthology of poems from the Wollongong workshop. Five Islands Press 2000
- Wild About the Roof. Wollongong Poetry Workshop 2001
- Poems for all Occasions. Five Islands Press 2002
- Two Spaces of Poetry: poems from Australia & West Bengal 2006
- The Road South: an anthology of contemporary Australian poetry. Kolkata: Bengal Creations 2007
List of poems
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
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| What the house knows | 2014 | Pretty, Ron (Autumn 2014). "What the house knows". Meanjin. 73 (1): 141. |
Non-fiction
- Creating Poetry. Five Islands Press 1987, 2001
- Nicole: another chance at life. (with Kaye Bowden). Five Islands Press 1993
- Practical Poetics. Five Islands Press 2003
Reviews
Reviews for Ron Pretty's most recent book What the Afternoon Knows [5] include:
- John Upton in Cordite Poetry Review 'He’s on top of his craft, shrewdly observant, witty, practical rather than flashy, never tired.' [6]
- Les Wicks in the Rochford Street Review 'there is a deep humanity in his observations and as you would expect, the deft hand of a master craftsman.' [7]
- Geoff Page in the Canberra Times 'it’s refreshing to read a collection where the poems are direct and emotionally engaged, while still possessing the linguistic and intellectual subtlety we rightly demand of poetry.' [8]
- ^ "five islands press about page".
- ^ "Australian Poetry" (PDF). Metabolism, members anthology. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
- ^ a b "Ron Pretty's AusLit page".
- ^ "Associate Professor Ronald Keith Pretty". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 2019-03-24.
- ^ "Google Books". What the Afternoon Knows. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
- ^ Upton, John. "Cordite Poetry Review". Review Short. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
- ^ Wicks, Les. "Rochford Street Review". So Honest, So Textured, So Real. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
- ^ Page, Geoff. "Canberra Times" (PDF). A Pretty view of life and time. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
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