Louise Crisp

Louise Crisp (born 1957) is a contemporary Australian poet.

Louise Crisp lives in East Gippsland (Victoria) with her partner and two daughters. Her first collection was The luminous ocean, a shared volume with Valery Wilde's In the Half-Light. She has published several more books of poetry and worked, among other occupations, as a fire tower watcher on which she has written in Pearl & sea fed. This volume was shortlisted for the 1995 C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry.

Crisp's 2019 book, Yuiquimbiang, was shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry.

Works

Poetry

• The luminous ocean. (Friendly Street Poets, 1988)
• Pearl & sea fed. (New Zealand: Hazard Press, 1994) ISBN 0-908790-79-1
• Ruby Camp: A Snowy River series. (Melbourne: Spinifex Press, 1998) ISBN 1-875559-83-3
• Three golden fish. (Wind and Water Press, 2004) ISBN 0-9585422-8-7
• Uplands: poems. (Five Islands Press, c.2007) ISBN 0-7340369-2-2
• Yuiquimbiang. (Cordintebooks, 2019) ISBN 9-7806480568-9-8

References

• thylazine.org

External links

• 3 poems
• 6 poems
• River poem at Deep South