Elizabeth Campbell (poet)

Elizabeth Campbell is an Australian poet.

Biography

Elizabeth Campbell was born in Melbourne in 1980. She graduated from the University of Melbourne with an Honours Degree in English in 2000. She has taught English at Eltham High School and MacRobertson Girls' High School, Victoria.

She has published two collections of verse, Letters to the Tremulous Hand and Error, both published by John Leonard Press.

Her poetry has been widely published and anthologised, and she been the recipient of many awards and residencies for her poetry.

Several of Campbell's poems were included in the 2011 landmark anthology of Australian poetry, Australian Poetry Since 1788.

Works

Poetry

• Letters to the Tremulous Hand. (Melbourne: John Leonard Press, 2007)
• Error. (Melbourne: John Leonard Press, 2011)

Anthologies

• The Puncher and Wattman Anthology of Australian Poetry. (Sydney: Puncher & Wattmann, 2010)
• Australian Poetry Since 1788. Geoffrey Lehmann (ed.), Robert Gray (ed.) (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2011)
• Young Poets: An Australian Anthology. (Melbourne: John Leonard Press, 2011)

Awards

• Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, 2006
• Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize, 2010

External links

• Elizabeth Campbell at The Redroom Company
• Black Inc, The Best Australian Poems 2010 Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
• Australian Poetry Since 1788 edited by Geoffrey Lehmann & Robert Gray