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Mark O’Connor

Publications list

Updated: October 2006

11. Published Books

11.1 Co-authored Books

22. Radio, Television and Audio-Visuals

22.1 Programs on ABC Radio

22.1 Recordings

33. Short Stories

33.1 Short Stories in Magazines

33.2 Short Stories in Books

34. Articles and Chapters

34.1 Summary

34.2 Articles and Chapters

44.3 Reviews

55. Articles About Mark O'Connor

55.1 Magazine Articles

55.2 Interview Articles

55.3 Major Press Articles

66. Poetry Published in Magazines and General Anthologies

66.1 Poems in Anthologies - Summary

76.2 Poems in Anthologies – Recent Examples

76.3 Poems In Poetry Magazines

87. Poems Published in International Publications

87.1 Summary of International Publications

87.2 Samples of International Publications

97.3 Short Stories

97.4 Articles Published Overseas

97.5 Reviews and Interviews

97.6 Books Available Internationally

107.7 Publications in Non-English-Speaking Countries

107.8 Activities in Non-English-Speaking Countries

107.9 Translations Into Other Languages

118. Plays, Ballet, Dance, and Exhibitions

118.1 Plays

118.2 Ballet and Dance

129. Festivals, Conferences and Public Talks

139.1 Recent Conference Papers

1310. Positions Held

1310.1 Summary of Australian Literary Experience

1411. Courses Taught

1512. Poetry Readings and Performances

1512.1 Summary of Overseas Performances

1613. Australian and Overseas Awards and Prizes

1613.1 Australian Awards and Prizes

1613.2 Overseas Awards and Prizes

1613.3 Fellowships

1714. Writer-in-Residences and Miscellaneous

1715. Manuscript Holdings

1715.1 Patents

1. Published Books

1976

Reef Poems, University of Queensland Press.

1980

The Eating Tree, Angus & Robertson.

1982

Modern Australian Styles, James Cook University, being the 1981 Foundation for Australian Literary Studies annual lectures.

1983

Words on Paper: An Introduction to Alphabetic Theory, (linguistics) JCU Manubook (Out of Print).

1983

Fiesta of Men, Hale & Iremonger. Reprinted 1984.

1986

Poetry in Pictures: The Great Barrier Reef, Hale & Iremonger.

1986

Selected Poems, Hale & Iremonger. 2000 copies, sold out and replaced by Firestick Farming: Selected Poems 1972-1990

1988

Two Centuries of Australian Poetry, Oxford University Press. Edited and introduced by Mark O'Connor. Published March, reprinted many times. Revised expanded edition of 300 pages, 1996. International edition commissioned but has not appeared.

1988

Poetry of the Mountains, Second Back Row Press/Megalong Books. With photos by Ian Brown.

1989

The Ship Trans Time (a book of poems coming out of a residency as the Thomas Ramsay Science and Humanities Scholar at the Museum of Victoria) published by the Museum of Victoria.

1989

The Great Forest (poems about rainforest, with photos by Cliff and Dawn Frith), Hale & Iremonger.

1990

Firestick Farming: New and Selected Poems 1972-90, an update of Selected Poems with 50 pages of additional poems, Hale & Iremonger. Also issued as an audio-cassette in 1992.

1990

Nature of Australia, a selection designed for the international market, currently being edited by Professor Anna Rutherford for Dangaroo Press (Europe).

1.1 Co-authored Books

1977

Seven Poets (the Shell- Artlook Prize winner).

1977

Best Poems of the Year (USA).

1984

A Package of Poems UK, National School Competition.

1983

Sotheby's International Arvon Competition Anthology.

1983

A Selection of the Prize-Winners From the Scottish National Open Poetry Competition –1972-1986.

1983

Consolidation: The Second Paperback Poets Anthology.

1981- 1991

Poems in all of the Mattara Annual Anthologies.

2. Radio, Television and Audio-Visuals

1985

ABC TV documentary on the Barrier Reef poems Voyage on my Dreams in the series A Big Country (first broadcast 6.8.85).

1987

Poem North Head Quarantine Station was used in New South Wales National Parks video on The Quarantine Station.

1989

Poet of the North, half- hour documentary, Channel 9.

1989

minute ABC Encounter program.

1989

30- minute video Naming the Parts of Australia: A Conversation Between Manning Clark and Mark O'Connor produced by Image Oz.

1990

Was the guest on SBS TV's Face the Press Program (September 1990) and on Phillip Adams's one- hour radio interview program (July 1990).

1989

Debated with Philip Toyne on the ABC TV's The 7.30 Report.

1994

Was the guest on ABC TV's The Hot Seat (March 1994).

1990

30- minute Audio- visual Poetry of the North with triple slide dissolves by John Kirk, presented at the Scott Theatre, Adelaide (29.3.90), and at South Australian English Teachers annual conference.

1991

Video Poetry to Drama shot by Jean- Pierre Voos, based on the theatre production Threads from the Works of Mark O'Connor, JCU Theatre (October 1991).

1992

tape, as part of the Great Barrier Reef Aquarium Display, Townsville (from August 1992).

2.1 Programs on ABC Radio

1983

Some Poems of Mark O'Connor: The Greek Islands, a program in The Poet's Tongue series on ABC Radio (June 1983).

1983

The Words to Say It half- hour documentary and interview on the ideas behind the poems, produced by Florence Spurling.

1984

Radio essay David Williamson and the Australian Sexual Problem occupied the entire Radio Helicon program (26.3.84).

1984

A segment on the Italian poems broadcast on Radio Helicon (28.5.84).

1984

A series of seven talks titled Powers of Languagefor ABC Radio's Science Show (1984 and 1985).

1985

Radio program Poems of Mark O'Connor: The Barrier Reef in The Poet's Tongue.

1986

Long interview broadcast as The Reef God the opening program in the Insight series on ABC radio (5.2.86).

2.1 Recordings

1985

A TV documentary on Queensland poems titled Voyage on my Dreams appeared in the ABC TV's A Big Country.

1992

Cassette Firestick Farming: Selected Poems read by the author with music and sound- effects, published by Hale and Iremonger.

3. Short Stories

3.1 Short Stories in Magazines

1983

Short-stories The Black Cabaret, Hunting and Living, The Block, The Victim and Letter Perfect have appeared in SPAN (published in New Zealand Journal of South Pacific ACLALS).

1986

In Kunapipi (Journal of European ACLALS).

1986

In the Air New Zealand In- Flight Magazine.

1986

In Australian Short Stories Edited by Bruce Pascoe.

1986

In The Monthly Review.

3.2 Short Stories in Books

1986

The Block and Letter Perfect published in A Bundle of Yarns: Australian Short Stories, edited by Paul Cavanagh, Oxford University Press.

4. Articles and Chapters

4.1 Summary

Major articles on literature, poetry, language and conservation have appeared in numerous magazines, including The London Times's Educational Supplement (27.1.77), The London Times (15.6.80--see Section 7: Overseas Publications), Kunapipi (three articles), Hemisphere, and as an editorial introduction to the special Australian edition of the British magazine Aquarius (1984).

Also, in Australia, in The Age Monthly Review, Meanjin, Wildlife Australia, Overland, Westerly, English in Australia. Chapter Aboriginal Literature Becomes a Force in Aboriginal Culture Today, Dangaroo Press (1989). Note that the anthology Two Centuries of Australian Poetry (Oxford University Press, 1988) contains an editorial preface, and 18 sub-prefaces or essays on major issues in Australian literature: e.g. The Aboriginal World, Women's Experience, Migrant Experience, The Australian Vernacular and so on.

4.2 Articles and Chapters

1972

Chapter on Dryden, Gavin Douglas, and Virgil in the book Essays in Restoration Literature, edited by Harold Love, Methuen.

1974

Some Experiments in Breeding Aquarium Fishes with Hormones by Matthew C. Dick, with research by Dick and O'Connor, published in Tropical Fish Hobbyist (July 1974).

1975

The Scholarly Case Against Spelling Reform, English in Australia, No. 32.

1975

New Spelling, Hemisphere XIX.

1977

The Great Spelling Reform 1 Rumpus in Meanjin.

1979

The Graying of the Underground, in Overland, No. 74.

1981

Evolutionary Myth in the New Nature Poetry in Meanjin No. 2.

1983

Putting the Reef into Words in Reflections.

1984

The Poetry of the Reef in Wildlife Australia.

1984

Editorial Preface on Contemporary Australian Poetry in special Australian edition of Aquarius magazine, UK.

1984

Improving Wordstar with Setup in Ausnews Vol. 2 No. 4 (December 1984).

1985

Revising Umbrian Farm in Germinal No. 2.

1985

Function Keys for Wordstar and Maintaining Address Files with Wordstar in Ausnews.

1986

The Poetry of the North: Finding Words for the Tropics in Westerly Vol. 31, No. 1.

1986

East Meets West Through Poetry: a Report on the 1986 Struga Festival by Mark O'Connor in The Canberra Times (October 1986).

1986

Australian Poetry Today in Germinal, No. 3 (November 1986).

1987

Free Verse and Traditional Verse, Dhalwa.

1987

Chapter on Poetry and Science in If Atoms Could Talk, edited by Rosaleen Love, Greenhouse Publications.

1987

Chapter on Dunk Island in Islands of Australia, edited Geoffrey Dutton, Macmillan.

1988

Speeding Up Wordstar with Key- Enhancers in Ausnews (Magazine of the Australasian Microcomputer Users Society) Vol 5, No. 4 (June 1988).

1989

Chapter The Daintree in Peter Dombrovski's book Original Earth.

1989-1991

Numerous articles on the subject of WESP in ABR, The Author, ANU Reporter.

1989

Don't Reap the Rainforest, in Sydney Morning Herald (9.12.89).

1990

Beyond the Canon: Preparing an Anthology of Australian Poetry, Australian Studies.

1990

Greening the Psyche of White Australia, in The Australian (10.2.90).

1990

The Pyramid of Literacy, in English in Australia, No. 93 (September 1990).

1991

Future Directions for a Sustainable Australia (Manifesto of Australians/Writers for an Ecologically Sustainable Population).

1991

Future Directions for a Sustainable Australia, co

authored.

1992

The Herpes Principle, in Simply Living (September 1992).

1992

Words for a Landscape (Introduction to the 1992 Tasmanian Wilderness Calendar).

4.3 Reviews

1975

Review of A Late Picking, plus an article Metre in A.D. Hope's A Late Picking in Within the Hill (Special Edition of Canberra Poetry (Autumn 1975).

1983

Three review articles in Kunapipi on David Malouf, Les Murray, and on The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Verse.

1983

After the Bubble Burst

Poetry: Consolidating the 70s, review- article on Consolidations published in The Age Monthly Review, Vol. 2, No. 9 (January 1983).

1984

Private Life of a Beachcomber, three- page review

article on Michael Noonan's A Different Drummer, published in Australian Book Review (April 1984).

1986

East meets West Through Poetry: Report on the 1986 Struga Festival in The Canberra Times (September 1986).

1992

Not Biting the Bullet, in Quadrant (June 1992).

5. Articles About Mark O'Connor

5.1 Magazine Articles

1977

Biologically Accurate Poetry by Elizabeth Perkins, LiNQ magazine.

1981

The Canberra Poets: The New Australian Poetry by Kevin F. Pearson, in Poetry of the Pacific Region (CRNLE), Proceedings of the CRNLE/SPACLALS Conference.

1981

Beyond the Obvious Landscapes, review of The Eating Tree, by Elizabeth Perkins in LiNQ, Vol 10, No. 2.

1983

A Symposium: Mark O'Connor's The Fiesta of Men in LiNQ Magazine, Vol. 11, No. 2.

1983

Poetry in the Tropics: An Article on O'Connor's Poetry by Dr Trevor James in London Magazine.

1983

Ten Years of Poetry in Canberra by Alan Gould in Poetry Australia, No. 87 (April 1983).

1986

Mark O'Connor's Australian Continent, paper by John Leonard at the 1986 ASAL Conference.

1988

Selected Poems of Mark O'Connor, by Ornella Vannuci, Inter- Arts (Edinburgh) Vol 1, No. 5.

1988

Poetry of Mark O'Connor, by Michael Hulse, PN Review (UK).

5.2 Interview Articles

1984

Fiestas of Life: An Interview with Mark O'Connor by Paul Kavanagh, published in LiNQ magazine, Vol 12.

1986

Interview Nature and Poetry: with Tony Scanlon in Northern Perspective, Vol. 9, No. 2 (December 1986).

1988

Interview Science, Myth and Nature with Greg Sessions in Habitat (April 1988).

1988

Teaching Poetry: A Conversation Between Mark O'Connor and Richard Tipping edited by Ted Reilly, in the 1988 Victorian English Teachers Journal.

1990

Interview Keeping Faith with the Reader with Tony Scanlon in Prairie Schooner Magazine (USA).

1990

Interview Saving the Land With Poetry, with Paolo Totaro, Bulletin (30.1.90).

1991

Toby Jones Interviews Mark O'Connor, in NSW National Parks Magazine (Autumn 1991).

5.3 Major Press Articles

1981

Return of the Poet, Debra Jopson, National Times (8.3.81).

1981

The Tribulations of Surviving Poetically, by Stuart Sayers, The Age (9.5.81).

1983

The Politics of Language, by John McLaren, Australian Book Review (6.1.83).

1983

The Man With a Muse a Thousand Miles Long, by John Wright, The Australian (3.12.83).

1983

Fiesta of Men, by John McLaren, Australian Book Review (June 1983).

1985

Reef Poet Beat the Word Barrier, by Tracy Auburn, Sydney Morning Herald (10.8.85).

1986

Well-Travelled Poet Makes Much of Verse, by Kate Collins, The Brisbane Sunday Mail (2.3.86).

1986

Poetry in Pictures, reviewer Thalia Kingston in Victorian ATE Journal.

1987

Romanticism and the Reef, review of Poetry in Pictures: The Great Barrier Reef, by Chris Tiffin in Australian Book Review (February 1987).

1988

The Poetry in Our Science by Kathy Kizilos, The Age (25.6.88).

1988

A Poet Sets About Building a Bridge Between Science and Humanities, by Peter Fuller, The Canberra Times (5.5.88).

1988

Poet of Nature, by Kate Collins, The Sunday Mail (18.9.88).

1988

Poetry of the Mountains, by Penelope Layland, The Canberra Times (13.11.88).

1988

Mark O'Connor's Selected Poems by Michael Hulse, PN Review (UK,13,5).

1988

Mark O'Connor's Selected Poems, Ornella Vanucci, Inter Arts (UK,I,5).

1988

Science Stanzas: Muse of the Museum, by David Porter, in Good Weekend (18.3.88).

1988

Mapping the Land Afresh With Poetry, by Penelope Layland, The Canberra Times (13.11.88).

1988

User- friendly Verse at Home and Abroad, by Heather Cam, Sydney Morning Herald (10.12.88).

1989

Un Poeta Che Da Voce Ai Poeti, by Brimo Ferroni, Il Messaggero (April 1989).

1989

Verse to Inspire the Most Jaded Student, by Veronica Sen, The Canberra Times (1.7.89).

1990

Interview with Jane Sullivan, The Age.

1991

Keen Observer, by John Foulcher, The Canberra Times (16.2.91).

6. Poetry Published in Magazines and General Anthologies

6.1 Poems in Anthologies - Summary

Poems have appeared in numerous anthologies including:

· The Nelson Illustrated Treasury of Australian Verse

· The Heritage of Australian Poetry, A Package of Poems (UK, Nat. Schiz. Comp. 1984)

· Best Poems of the Year (USA 1983)

· The Younger Australian Poets, Sotheby's International Arvon Competition Anthology

· The Border Issue

· all of the Mattara annual anthologies to date (1981 to 1991)

· in Consolidations: The Second Paperback Poets Anthology, Poets Australia Catalogue, Australian Voices (edited by R. Dobson)

· Seven Poets

· Alma Ceres (international)

· Language and Literature (Jacaranda)

· The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse (1986)

· The Collins Dove Book of Australian Religious Verse

· North of Capricorn: An Anthology of Queensland Verse

· North of the Ten Commandments (NT verse)

· The Australian Bedside Book

· Australian Poetry 1988

· World Literature in English

· The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Verse

· Contemporary Australian Poetry (edited by J. Leonard, Houghton-Mifflin 1990)

· Sister of the Moon Exhibition (Parliament House, 1990)

· Heinemann Anthology of Contemporary Verse (Edited, Gray & Lehmann, 1992); Jennifer Strauss's Anthology of Australian Love Poetry

· Writers at Kimbos: Rescuing Beached Mondays, 1991

· On the Move: Australian Poets in Europe (Edited by Geoff Page, Butterfly Books, 1992)

6.2 Poems in Anthologies – Recent Examples

1976

Turtles Hatching won the 1975 Farmers International Poetry Prize and was subsequently selected for the Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards Volume Best Poems of 1976 (USA).

1981-1989

Poems have appeared in each annual Mattara Anthology for nine years: Members of the Orchestra, Lines from the Horizon, Instructions for Honey Ants, Properties of the Poet, Neither Nuked Nor Crucified, An Inflection of Silence, and The International Terminal The 1988 group of poems were: The Jigsaw Woman, Bamboo, and Lorikeets

1984

Source of Lake Ochrid from Poetry magazine was chosen for the 1984 edition of Best Poems, (also called Anthology of Magazine Verse and Year Book of American Poetry).

1984

Homer's Grave, Ios, published in A Package of Poems, An Anthology from the 1983 International Schizophrenia Poetry Competition.

1985

Cuttlefish Bone and Inland Drought published in The Border Issue: Poetry in Queensland.

1985

Poem A Javanese Pieta in the book Poets for Africa.

1985

Melbourne Visit Etc. in the volume Arteries in Stone.

1986

Turtles Hatching, Fire and The Sunhunters in The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse, Edited by Murray.

1986

Five poems included in David Headon's Anthology of Territory Prose and Verse: Dinosaur, Bamboo Creek, Literacy, Crocodile Haiku, Interview, plus excerpt from Rock Painting.

1986

Wordsworth's House at Rydal published in A Selection of the Prize Winners from the Scottish National Open Poetry Competition 1972-1986, Wilfion Books.

1986-1989

A number of poems in The Bulletin's, The Australian's, and the Sydney Morning Herald's Quarterly Literary Supplements over three years.

1986

The Rainbow Serpent in The Anthology of Australian Religious Poetry, edited by Les A. Murray, Collins- Dove.

1987

Turtles Hatching in The Australian Bedside Book, edited by Geoffrey Dutton, Macmillan.

1987

Poem To Kill an Olive published in the Yugoslav Anthology of Australian Contemporary Poetry, organized by the Struga Festival Committee.

1988

Two poems, A Queenslander Remembers the Twentieth Century, and Mist, in Australian Poetry 1988, edited by Vivian Smith, Angus & Robertson.

1988

North Head Quarantine Station (full sequence), and Frigate Birds in World Literature in English, the 1988 Chelsea Anthology.

1988

Poems:Shearwaters, To Kill an Olive, Umbrian Farm, Wordsworth's House at Rydal, and The Rainbow Serpent in the FALS NQ Bicentennial Anthology, edited by Elizabeth Perkins and Robert Handicott.

1993

Poem Microchip Moggie/Feline Felon in Marmalade's Book of Cats, published by Marmalade Press, Sydney.

6.3 Poems In Poetry Magazines

All except three of the final poems from the 176 pp 1986 Selected Poems have previously appeared in Australian, European, Canadian or US magazines or annual anthologies--as have some 50 poems not included in this collection. These magazines include The Adelaide Literary Review, The Age, The Australian, Blast, The Bulletin's, The Australian's, and The Sydney Morning Herald's Quarterly Literary Supplements, The Border Issue, The Bulletin, Canberra Poetry, The Canberra Times, The Courier Mail, Habitat, Hemisphere, Germinal, Imago, Island, LiNQ, Luna, The Mattara Anthologies for 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, and 1986, Meanjin, The Monthly Review, Muse, Northern Perspective, Overland, Quadrant, Phoenix, Poetry Australia, Southerly, Sydney Morning Herald, Westerly; and among overseas magazines: Acumen, Aquarius, Best Poems of the Year (USA 1983), Chelsea, Critical Survey, Descant, Espaces (P.E.N.), Inter Arts, Journal of Oceanic Literature, Kunapipi, The Little Magazine (N.Y.), London Magazine, Nebo, NE-Europa, New Letters, Occident, Poetry (Chicago), Prairie Schooner, Quarry, Sotheby's International Arvon Competition Anthology (1983), 2Plus2, and Waves.

1987-1988

Poems with illustrative photos: published in the Melbourne Herald Books Page 1987/88: Bark Canoe, Under Martian Eyes, Gardiner Valley.

7. Poems Published in International Publications7.1 Summary of International Publications

Poems in numerous overseas/international magazines including: Acumen, Aquarius, Best Poems of the Year (USA 1983), Chelsea, Critical Survey, Descant, Espaces, Inter Arts, Journal of Oceanic Literature, Kunapipi, The Little Magazine (N.Y.), London Magazine, Nebo, NE-Europa, New Letters, Occident, Poetry (Chicago), Prairie Schooner, Quarry, Sotheby's International Arvon Competition Anthology (1983), 2Plus2, and Waves.

7.2 Samples of International Publications

1973-1984

About a dozen poems in Hemisphere.

1975

Poem Turtles Hatching won the Farmers Poetry Prize and published in Poetry Australia (December 1975). Subsequently selected for publication in the Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards volume Best Poems of 1976 (U.S.A.).

1981

Poem, The Cuttle Fish Bone, in The Little Magazine, NY. 1981

1982

Numerous poems in Kunapipi Magazine (the Journal of International ACLALS): Volume 4, No. 2. (1982) Also in Volume 6, No. 2 (1984). And an article Vernacular and Middle Styles in Volume 3, No. 1 (1981). Poems again in Volume 4, No. 1 (1982).

1984

Poem Source of Lake Ochrid published in Poetry Magazine (USA) and subsequently anthologized in Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry (1984).

1984

Homer's Grave, Ios, published in A Package of Poems, An Anthology from the 1983 International Schizophrenia Poetry Competition.

1985-1987

Poems regularly in 2Plus2, including The Masters, Umbrian Farm, (Fall 1985), In A Cloud, Pagoda Country, Phosphorescence. (Volume 6, October 1987).

1986

Wordsworth's House at Rydal, published in the anthology A Selection of the Prize Winners from the Scottish National Open Poetry Competition 197-1986.

1987

Poems Skagen Forest and Letter from the Barrier Reef in Oceanic Literature magazine published Anhui University, China.

1987

Five poems in NE- Europa magazine, No. 53.

1988

Poems Wentworth Falls, Entering and Hartley Courthouse in London Magazine.

1988

Poem in Alma Ceres, the 1988 anthology of the World Organization for Poetry.

1988

Poem Dinosaur Dreamtime in Inter- Arts (journal of Commonwealth literature, published by Edinburgh University).

1988

Nine pages in Chelsea's World Literature in English anthology.

1988

Translation of Mimmor Morina's Sette Solitudini per Un Isola published in Acumen Magazine (UK), Volume 8.

1989

Six pages in special Australian edition of Prairie Schooner (USA).

1989

Poems The Beginning and Olive the sole Australian poems in PEN's Espaces international anthology.

1989

Five poems (ten pages) in the Canadian magazine Descant's special Australia- NZ edition (No. 67).

1989

Five poems in Oceanic Literature, No. 14.

1994

Several poems in the Australian special number of the UK magazine Critical Survey, edited by Professor John Barnes.

7.3 Short Stories

Letter Perfect and The Black Cabaret, winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, published in Kunapipi, (Journal of Europman A.C.L.A.L.S.) 1979 and 1980. Hunting and Living, winner of South Pacific Short Story Prize, published in Span (Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies = SPACLALS) in No. 16 (17.10.83), New Zealand. Letter Perfect published also in the Air New Zealand In-Flight Magazine (1981).

7.4 Articles Published Overseas

International magazines which recently ran features on my work or groups of two or more poems include: 2Plus2, Oceanic Literature, Chelsea Magazine, Descant, Espaces (the P.E.N. 1989 international anthology), NE-Europa, London Magazine, Ambit, and Prairie Schooner

1974

Some Experiments in Breeding Aquarium Fishes with Hormones, with Matthew Dick of the Australian National University, TFH, USA, (July 1974).

1977

On Literacy, in London Times Educational Supplement (27.1.77).

1980

Boeotian and Loyolan Art, in Kunapipi, No. 1, 1979, review- article on Les Murray's Ethnic Radio; with reply by Murray in No. 2, and rejoinder by O'Connor in Vol. 2, No. 1.

1980

The Notion of Wasteland (winner in 1980 of The London Times's 500- pound sterling Kenneth Allsop Memorial Prize for an article on conservation. Published as Why We Need Our Wildlife in The Times (15.6.80).

1981

Vernacular and Middle Styles in Australian Poetry, in Kunapipi (journal of the European Branch of ACLALS) III, No. 1.

1982

Australian Poetry Since the 50s, in Kunapipi.

1983

Australian Poetry Today (editorial introduction to Aquarius, 15-16).

7.5 Reviews and Interviews

1988

Mark O'Connor's Selected Poems by Michael Hulse, PN Review, (UK,13,5).

1988

Mark O'Connor's Selected Poems, Ornella Vanucci, in Inter Arts, (UK,I,5).

1989

Keeping Faith with the Reader, interview with Tony Scanlon in Prairie Schooner Magazine (USA).

7.6 Books Available Internationally

1986

Selected Poems and Poetry in Pictures: The Great Barrier Reef were launched in Britain by Peter Porter at the Bernard Stone Bookshop on 10.11.86, and are distributed in Britain by special arrangement with J.M. Dent (cf. the enclosed press- release from Michele Field's Australia Council office in London).

7.7 Publications in Non-English-Speaking Countries

1986

Article East Meets West by Mark O'Connor in Belgrade describing Ginsberg's award of the Golden Wreath at Struga, in The Canberra Times Wednesday Magazine, September 1986.

1987

Groups of poems published in the multilingual European magazines 2PLus2, (Phosphorescence, Pagoda, and Cloud, 1987) and NE- Europa, No. 53.

1987

Nuclear Fantasy in the Grose Valley quoted in full (in their own Russian translation) in an article by Ekaterina Sheveleva and Sergei Bobkov in the Russian Literature Gazette, p. 15, Moscow, 18.11.87.

1988

Poem The Beginning translated into Danish by Kirsten Holst Petersen and published in the Aarhus Daily Times (Skiftstide), (September 1988).

1988

Poem To Kill an Olive in the Macedonian- language anthology Australian Poetry - Australitska Poesia 1988, edited by Thomas Shapcott.

1988

English translation of Mimmo Morina's 7 Solitudini per un Isola publised in Acumen (October 1988, UK).

7.8 Activities in Non-English-Speaking Countries

1977-1980

Spent 4 years in Europe on a Marten Bequest Scholarship.

1978, 1979, 1986

Invited Reader at the Struga International Poetry Festival.

1979

Invited performer at Karolyi Festival in Vence, France (September 1979).

1979-1987

see Section 9: Festivals etc.

1986

Seminar at Ca' Foscari University, Venice (6.10.86).

1986

Guest- speaker at the Venice Circolo – Italo-Britannico (6.10.86).

1988

The Sun Hunters, a ballet by Dance North based on O'Connor's Queensland poems, was taken on a Bicentennially- funded tour of South East Asia.

1989

Officially invited by Secretariat of World Organization for Poets to represent Australia at their 1989 Conference in Egypt.

1989

Writer-in- residence (China- Australia Exchange) at East China University in Shanghai (from September 1989).

1990

Visited Russia as part of Department of Foreign Affairs cultural program (July 1990).

7.9 Translations Into Other Languages

Mr Cha Guo Sheng of Fudan University is translating Poetry of the Mountains into Chinese, and Dr Paolo Totaro is translating it into Italian. A few poems have been translated into Macedonian.

8. Plays, Ballet, Dance, and Exhibitions

I have till recently largely abandoned drama to concentrate on poetry. However, the Theatre Restaurant piece PHOCH: Parliament House on Capital Hill, 1991 (co-authored with Neil Fredericks) ran for some months in Canberra in 1981. A video Poetry to Drama currently under preparation, is based on the theatre production Threads from the works of Mark O'Connor, directed by Jean-Pierre Voos at JCU Theatre, November 1991.

8.1 Plays

1970-1976

Numerous review scripts.

1973

Overture workshopped by Australian Playrights' Conference, and shown at Nimrod Theatre in Sydney.

1974

A group of short plays dealing with an overpopulated future world: Tube, Reft, Cranberry Sauce, and Dillion were workshopped and shown by The Melbourne Theatre Company.

8.2 Ballet and Dance

1988

Ballet The Sunhunters based on my poem of the same name, was Dance North's bicentennial offering. It was performed in Brisbane, in Canberra, at the Seymour Centre in Sydney, and at other venues in Australia in December and January 1988, and then taken on a Bicentennially- funded tour of South East Asia.

1990

Sister of the Moon Exhibition-- poems with Peter Adsett's paintings was shown at the William Mora Galleries in Melbourne April- May 1990, then moved to Parliament House Canberra, opened by the Minister for Environment and Arts, Ros Kelly (7.8.90). Two of the Paintings, which incorporate lines of poetry, hang in the ACF foyer. Cassette Sister of the Moon with music by Christie Cooney released August 1990.

1992

tape, as part of the Great Barrier Reef Aquarium Display (August 1992).

9. Festivals, Conferences and Public Talks

1978, 1979, 1984

Conference papers on Australian Literature at the Universities of Turin, Stirling, Aarhus, at the International ACLALS Conference in Malta in 1978, the 1984 Macquarie SPACLALS Conference, at the UNSW Writers and Academics Conference in 1988; also gave talks and readings at the Universities of Hull, Turin, PNG, Sussex and Stirling, and at the 1979 Karolyi Festival in Vence.

1982

In August 1981 gave the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Annual Lectures at James Cook University. (Subsequently published as Modern Australian Styles, 1982).

1983, 1985, 1987

A paid guest at all three National Word Festivals in Canberra; four times at the Warana Writers' Week; and at Sydney Writers Week 1989.

1983

Public Talk on Poetry and Literature Today at Ballarat Fine Art Gallery.

1985

Guest speaker at the Wildlife Preservation Society of Northern Queensland (November 1985).

1985

Invited guest at the Festival of Perth.

1986

Invited and gave readings at the 1986 Commonwealth Literature Festival in Edinburgh.

1986

Reading to the Italo- Brittanic Circle, Venice (6.10.86).

1986

Was an invited guest at the Universities of Pisa, Venice, Edinburgh, Stirling, North London Polytechnic, Centre for Australian Studies (University of London), Oxford University, Welsh Polytechnic, Bolton CAE, and Hull University. Was unable to take up invitations to the Universities of Florence and Rome.

1986

With Stephanie Dowrick provided the Queensland Library Week Seminar on the topic Why Do We Write? Why Do We Read? Reading at the 1986 ASAL Conference in Townsville.

1987

Australian National Word Festival (7-9 March), spoke in opening session on The Literature of Place.

1987

Guest speaker at the Victorian Fellowship of Australian Writers Xmas meeting on Writing About Australian Landscapes (subsequently published in their Bulletin, January 1988). Also guest- speaker at their 27.8.84 meeting.

1987

Two talks to the Victorian Fellowship of Australian Writers, at November 1987 Annual General Meeting.

1987

Warana Writers Week-- took part in two- person session with Peter Porter, and also in a writers' workshop with Fay Zwicky. Also in public readings.

1988

Guest of honour at annual prize- giving ceremony for Sunraysia Branch of Victorian Fellowship of Australian Writers (20.11.88) in Mildura, Victoria.

1988

One day workshop The Secrets of Writing and Publishing Poetry by Mark O'Connor at Museum of Queensland for the Queensland Fellowship of Australian Writers (8.4.88).

1988

Sent to Australian Literature conference in Denmark.

1988

Warana Writers Week, Brisbane 1988. Chaired session on The Writer as Traveller, and took part in two- person session with Michael Noonan, on The Gentle Art of Beachcombing.

1988

Was sent from Australia to take part in an Australian literature component of the Aarhus Festival in Denmark (September 1-7) and to speak at the opening of a Barrier Reef exhibition.

1989, 1990

Gave the closing plenary address for the Australian Association of Teachers of English National Conference. Previously guest of the 1987 and 1988 Conferences and of the 1987 English Teachers' Association of New South Wales Annual Conference, and of the 1985 and 1987 ETANT Conferences.

1989, 1991

Talks for the State Library of NSW. Also a poetry workshop for the Library Society, July 1991.

1989

Meet the Writer session with the University of NSW Writers Group (19.4.89).

1989

Attended the International Poetry Festivals at Struga in 1978, 1979, and 1986. Invited but unable to attend the World Congress of Poets in Egypt in 1989.

1989

Guest lecture to first and second year students at National Institute of Dramatic Arts (circa 28.5.89) on The Other Kind of Writer.

1989

New College Seminar on Population and Environment for University of NSW professors and senior staff by senior resident fellow Mark O'Connor (25.5.89) at New College.

1989

Paper Poetry as a Key to Australian Studies given at the Association for Australian Studies annual conference Australian Society

into the 1990s (31.3.89).

1989

Talk at Sydney Writers Week.

1989

Talk for the People on Print series of the Writers and Readers programme, State Library of NSW (3.6.89).

1989

Workshop Contemporary Styles, Contemporary Themes at the Re- Wording 89 conference at Macquarie University (13.8.89).

1990

Guest Speaker at the South Australian English Teachers Association annual conference.

1990

Sent to Russia (Vladivostok conference) by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

1990

Talk on Australia's Population at the National Press Club, Canberra to RAIPA (25.6.90).

1991

ASAL Conference Paper The Poetry of Place.

1991

Represented Australia at the World Conference of Poets in Crete, and served as Rapporteur of the environment committee.

1994

NSW State Library Workshop Series, Poetry Writing Workshop (12.3.94).

9.1 Recent Conference Papers

1992

The Writer's Responsibility and Secrets of Environmental Writing, School Librarians Conference, Cairns, Queensland ( June 1992).

1992

Environmentalism in Australia. San Diego FAIR Conference (May 1992).

1992

(Mis)Conceptions of Australia's Carrying Capacity, in Outside Images of Australia: How Others See Us Conference of the Australian Studies Association, Perth.

1992

Future Directions for a Sustainable Australia, 1992 AESP conference Australia Overpopulated?, ANU.

1992

An Overview of Recent Enquiries on Population and Environment, in Bureau of Immigration Research Conference, Sydney (November 1992).

1992

Paper on population policy at the annual conference of the Australasian Society for Human Biology.

10. Positions Held

1973-1975

An editor of Canberra Poetry.

1974-1975

Vice-President of the ACT Fellowship of Australian Writers.

1976-1984

Australian Society of Authors (Regional Vice-President/ACT Representative, 1976 and 1981, and Member of Central Management Committee, 1976, 1981 and 1983-84).

1976-1984

Member of the Australian Conservation Foundation, Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, Victorian Fellowship of Australian Writers, and Queensland Fellowship of Australian Writers.

1986-1987

A judge of the Northern Territory Literary Competition.

1989

Co-convenor of Writers for an Ecologically Sustainable Population.

1990

current Vice- President of Australians for an Ecologically Sustainable Population.

10.1 Summary of Australian Literary Experience

I have served four years on the management committee of the Australian Society of Authors; and have given conference papers and readings at numerous Australian universities and conferences, including the 1983, 1985 and 1987 Word Festivals, the 1982 Warana Commonwealth Writers Week, four Warana Writers Weeks, the 1987 and 1988 AATE Conferences, the 1984 Macquarie SPACLALS conference, the 1985 Festival of Perth, and (with Stephanie Dowrick), the 1986 Queensland Library Week Seminar; also Plenary Guest speaker for the concluding session of the Australian National English Teachers Conference in 1989 and 1990.

11. Courses Taught

1962-1965

A part -time teacher at Taylors College, Melbourne.

1966

Resident Tutor, St Thomas Moore's College.

1966

Tutor in English, University of Western Australia.

1967-1968

Tutor in English Literature at Australian National University.

1968-1972

Tutor, Burton Hall at Australian National University.

1973-1976

Tutor, Garran Hall at Australian National University.

1979

Taught semester courses on Australian Literature in the 70s and Australian Poetry at the University of Aarhus in Denmark.

1981

Lecturer in Creative Verse Writing at the Canberra Centre for Continuing Education, ANU.

1981

Tutor in Professional Writing at the Canberra College of Advanced Education.

1982

Tutor in English, James Cook University.

1984, 1985 and 1992

Instructor in Creative Writing at McGregor Summer School.

1985

Instructor in Creative Writing Workshop weekend for Writers in Townsville, and for Darwin Institute of Technology.

1986

Seminars at University of Hull, of Venice, of London, and North London Polytechnic.

1986-1999

School Visits: As part of various residencies I have visited and spoken to classes at some 110 high schools.

1987

Seminars at Monash and Darwin campuses, workshop at AATE Conference, and for ETANT in Darwin.

1988

Writers Workshop, State Library of Queensland Theatrette (15.10.88).

1988

Writers' Workshop run for Logan City Library, (13.10.88).

1989

At Eltham College, offered a Teacher Development Course: Conversations Among Australian Poets: an Update on Contemporary Australian Poetry, as part of a short residency.

1992

Instructor in SLAQ Creative Writing Workshop, Cairns, Queensland.

1992

Tutor in Creative Writing at the McGregor Summer School (DDIAE).

12. Poetry Readings and Performances

1980

Brief poetry reading trip across the USA (October- November 1980).

1980

Represented Australia at the Poets Corner Readings in Westminister Abbey (September 1980).

1981

Brief visit to New Zealand in December 1981 as prize- winner in the Air New Zealand Short Story Competition.

1982

session with Alan Curnow and A.D. Hope at the 1982 Commonwealth Writers Week in Brisbane, Queensland.

1982-1983

Readings in Cairns Public Library.

1984

Ballarat and Queens Anglican Grammar School, Ballarat, and public reading at the Ballarat Gallery (8.3.84).

1984

Talks and readings at all Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane Universities and at James Cook University and the Universities of Newcastle and Riverina CAE and Canberra CAE.

1986

One month's poetry reading tour of Britain for the National Poetry Society.

1986

Readings at Oxford University, Australian Studies Institute (London), Hull, and Venice.

1986-1987

Two Readings at Harold Park, Sydney.

1986-1988

Invited guest and gave reading at the 1986 ASAL Conference. A reading at The Cloister cafe, Newcastle, organized by Australia Council and Christopher Pollnitz, May 1988.

1988

At request of Director Paolo Totaro, reading at the NSW Ethnic Affairs Commission Concert, (22.12.88).

1988

Gave poetry reading (with slide show) for Arts Council of the ACT (6.8.88), Gorman House, Canberra.

1988

Joined in the Reading Conflict and Resolution: A Poetry Reading on the Nuclear Issue at the National Library of Australia (10.11.88).

1988

One- man reading at the National Library Theatre, Mark O'Connor: Poetry of Place (7.7.88).

1988

nuclear reading with Bruce Dawe, Geoff Page and others at National Library of Australia (10.11.88).

1988

Public reading of Poets in the Sculpture Garden-- Australian National Gallery (19.3.88) -- reading with Dobson, Brissenden, Page and others.

1988

Reading at Miettas in Melbourne (9.6.88).

1988

Several readings during residency at Queensland State Library (September- October 1988).

1988-1992

taped.

1989

Guest Reading NSW State Library in People on Print series.

1990

Reading with Chris Wallace- Crabbe at Rowden White Library (26.4.90).

1994

Poets Union Reading at the Gallery Cafe, Sydney (2.3.94).

12.1 Summary of Overseas Performances

I have given paid readings at numerous overseas universities including Hull, Turin, London, Edinburgh, Stirling, Aarhus, Pisa, Georgetown, Malta, Venice; and readings or presentations at numerous major conferences, including the 1978 ACLALS conference in Malta, the 1978, 1979 and 1986 Struga International Poetry Festivals, and the 1980 Westminister Abbey Poetry Readings. In October-November 1986 I did a one-month poetry reading tour of Britain organized by the British National Poetry Society. In 1988 sent to the Australian Literature conference in Denmark.

In 1990 sent to Russia (Vladivostok conference) by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. In 1990-1991 was overseas writer-in-residence (the Australia-China Bilateral Exchange) at East China University in Shanghai. In September 1991 sent by Australia Council to represent Australia at the World Conference of Poets in Crete. More recently there have been cultural visits to India, China and the UK.

13. Australian and Overseas Awards and Prizes

13.1 Australian Awards and Prizes

1961

Matriculated in Melbourne with six First Class honours, winning a Commonwealth Scholarship, a Senior Government Scholarship, a Gowrie Bursary, the 1961 Consolidated Zinc Scholarship (declined), a CRB Scholarship, a Newman Resident Scholarship, Dux of Xavier College, the Julia Flynn Prize for English, and the Latin Exhibition.

1965

Graduated Bachelor of Arts in English and Classics from Melbourne University with First Class Honours, First Place, the Douglas Howard Exhibition, and the Shakespeare Scholarship. (Subsequently taught at University of West Australia and Australian National University until becoming a writer in 1972).

1972

The NUS Drama Prize.

1977-1978

The Marten Bequest Fellowship for poetry.

1979

The Shell- Artlook $1,250 prize for poetry.

1981

The John Shaw Neilson Poetry Prize.

1982

Canning Literary Award.

1983

Tom Collins Poetry Prize.

1985

The Charles Thatcher Prize.

1987

Sir Thomas Ramsay Science and Humanities Fellowship at the Museum of Victoria.

1988

$1,000 Prize in the ABC's Grace Perry Competition

13.2 Overseas Awards and Prizes

1973

First poems appeared in magazines. Won the Poetry Australia/Farmers International Biennial Poetry Prize.

1975

The Farmers Prize again, for Turtle Hatching. (Subsequently selected for publication in the anthology Best Poems of 1976, Borestone, USA).

1979

The British Commonwealth Short Story Prize (500- pounds sterling) for The Black Cabaret.

1980

The London Times's 500- pounds sterling Kenneth Allsop Memorial Prize for prose.

1983

The SPACLALS Short Story Prize for Hunting and Living.

13.3 Fellowships

1973

Commonwealth Literature Fund half- year Fellowship.

1974

Literature Board Young Writers one- year Fellowship.

1977

Literature Board Special Purpose Grant.

1983

Literature Board half- year Fellowship.

1984

Literature Board half- year Fellowship.

1984

NSW National Parks Writing Fellowship.

1985

NSW National Parks Writing Fellowship (again).

1986

Literature Board General Writing Grant.

1989

Literature Board Senior Fellowship.

1990

$3,000 grant from ACT ADB to produce lyrics with musician Judith Clingan, now completed as The Canberra Song Cycle.

1991-1992

NSW National Parks Foundation grant ($30,000) to work on poems about the High Country.

14. Writer-in-Residences and Miscellaneous

Many of the following items were jointly funded by the Australian Literature Board.

1983

James Cook University, and a second residency at Riverina CAE.

1984

Park Writers Fellowship with New South Wales National Parks.

1984

Tutor in Creative Writing at the McGregor Summer School.

1985

Mini- residency at Griffith University in second semester.

1985

Second Park Writers Fellowship; nine- week campus residency at Darwin Institute of Technology; Writer-in-the- Community Residency with Townsville City Council.

1986

Three-day mini- residency at the University of Venice.

1987

One- month poetry reading tour of Britain.

1987

With Stephanie Dowrick, provided the Queensland Library Week Seminar on the topic Why Do We Write? Why Do We Read? (8.2.87).

1987

One- week mini- residency at Monash University; the Victorian Museum's 1987 Science and Humanities Fellowship involving one year's residency at the Museum; July to October 9 week repeat residency at Darwin Institute of Technology.

1988

Completion of Thomas Ramsay Residency.

1988

Residency at the State Library of Queensland.

1989

Residency at University of NSW from April for 9 weeks.

1990

Residency at South Australian College of Advanced Education.

1990-1991

Overseas residency at the Australian Studies Centre, East China University, Shanghai, China.

1992

Residency at Monash College Gippsland.

15. Manuscript Holdings

Manuscripts have been purchased by: the Australian National Library; and the Australian Defence Forces Academy Library; wordprocessor (Osborne 1) and manuscripts purchased by the Powerhouse Museum; manuscript of book The Grub in the Wood of Time, four copies elaborately bound by designer-binders John Tonkin and Sun Evrard--purchased (at $4000 each) by: Biblioteque Nationale de France, and Rare Books Collection Queensland State Library.

15.1 Patents

Mark is the holder of 'International PCT patent no. pct/au00/00286: Text Processing and Display Methods and Systems'.

Mark O'Connor and Documenta are jointly developing an exciting new product called 'READRIGHT' which, when completed, will provide a revolutionary new approach to recognition of language patterns in English. Preliminary results of this project may be viewed on a temporary website which is password-protected (details may be gained from Mark O’Connor).

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Mark O’Connor – Curriculum Vitae – Updated October 2006