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Professor Kevin Brophy is a poet and novelist. He has had twelve books published. From 1980 to 1994 he edited the small press literary journal Going Down Swinging. His poems and essays have been anthologised in Best Australian Poems 2004, 2006, 2007, 2011 and Best Australian Essays 2009 , Australian Poetry since 1788 , Best Australian Essays: a ten-year collection , the MacQuarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature , the Puncher & Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry , The Road South , New Music: Contemporary Australian Poetry , Family Ties: Australian Poems of the Family , My Secret Life , Daughters and Fathers and other publications. His book, Creativity, was shortlisted for the NSW Premiers Nonfiction Literary Award in 1999. He was awarded the Martha Richardson Medal for poetry in 2005. He was co-winner of the Calibre Prize for an outstanding essay in 2009.
Kevin Brophy is a regular reviewer for Reading Time, the journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia, and has contributed Book Notes for the Council of Adult Education Reading Groups. He has been awarded Australia Council for the Arts grants in 1974, 1986 and 2005. He has been awarded Arts Victoria project grants in 1996 and 2003. In 2010 he co-edited Nth Degree , an anthology of new writing from Australian creative-writing students. His latest book of essays is Patterns of Creativity . His latest collection of poetry is Radar . See an interview in Verityla with Brophy and co-author Nathan Curnow and review in Aus.Poetry.org. Kevin's article, 'Art and Evolution: A Partnership in Excess' has been included in the 10 Year Anniversary edition of the international journal, New Writing.

Kevin Brophy is a life member of Writing Victoria, patron the Melbourne Poets Union, a member of the publishing executive of Five Islands Press, and co-editor of the on-line journal of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, TEXT. He is a founding member of Lines to Time, an association devoted to providing poetry at the funerals of those who would otherwise die without recognition or ceremony. He was a member of the Executive of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs 2001-2008. He has been a board member of Going Down Swinging, four times a judge for the Victorian Premiers Literary Awards, and through Hit & Miss, the publisher of chapbooks by Melbourne poets.

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Kevin Brophy

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Books from Kevin Brophy

Going Down Swinging No. 30

Creativity: Psychoanalysis, Surrealism and Creative Writing

RADAR

Explorations in Creative Writing

Portrait In Skin

Patterns of Creativity