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DAVID BROOKS' first collection of poetry, The Cold Front (1983), won the Ann Elder Award and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier�s Prize. His first collection of short stories, The Book of Sei (1986), was hailed in The Nation Review as 'the most exciting short-fiction debut in Australia since Peter Carey's The Fat Man in History� and was subsequently published in Japan and the United Kingdom. His subsequent collections, Sheep and the Diva (1990) and Black Sea (1997), and his longer fictional work The House of Balthus (1995; shortlisted for the National Book Award), have confirmed him as one of the most distinctive and imaginative voices in Australian writing. He has also published a collection of essays (The Necessary Jungle, 1990), and edited works of and on A.D. Hope (Selected Poems, The Double Looking Glass [essays]), R.F. Brissenden and others. His poetry and short fiction have been translated into numerous languages (French, German, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Indonesian, Mandarin Chinese, Slovenian, Persian, Arabic, French, Croatian and Swedish), and published in major newspapers and literary journals around the world. His novel, The House of Balthus, has been published in a German edition by Kindler Verlag (2000) and in Polish by Wydawnictwo dom na wsi (Ossa, 2004). |
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Brooks was born in Canberra and spent his early childhood in Greece and Yugoslavia. He studied at the Australian National University and the University of Toronto, during which period he served as overseas editor for New Poetry and befriended and worked with such poets as Galway Kinnell and Mark Strand. He has taught at various Australian universities and edited and/or been on the editorial board of various Australian literary journals (Helix, The Phoenix Review, Westerly), been a guest of numerous literary festivals (the Perth Festival, the Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide Festival Writers� Weeks, etc.). He has lectured on Australian literature and/or read his poetry and prose at literary events in the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and China. He is currently senior lecturer in Australian Literature at the University of Sydney, where he is also Director of the graduate program in Creative Writing and managing co-editor of Southerly, Australia�s principal literary journal. His most recent book publications are the novel The Fern Tattoo and the poetry collection The Balcony (both Univ. of Queensland Press, 2007, 2008). His work has recently appeared in Poetry Salzburg (Austria), Agenda (UK), The Kenyon Review and The Chautauqua Literary Journal (USA), Heat and Southerly (Australia). |
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Selected Publications:
New South: Australian Poetry of the Late 1970s (editor), Toronto: Dreadnaught, 1980
Five Poems (poetry), Toronto, Flying Fox, 1981
The Cold Front (poetry), Hale & Iremonger, 1983
The Book of Sei and Other Stories (short fiction), Hale & Iremonger, 1985
The Book of Sei (short fiction), Faber & Faber, 1987
Poetry and Gender (editor, with Brenda Walker), Univ. of Queensland Press, 1989
Sheep and the Diva (short fiction), McPhee Gribble/Penguin, 1990
The Necessary Jungle (essays), McPhee Gribble/Penguin, 1990
Security of Allusion: Five Essays in Honour of A.D. Hope (editor), The Phoenix Review/ANU Faculty of Arts, 1992
Selected Poems of A.D. Hope (editor), Angus & Robertson/HarperCollins, 1992
Suddenly Evening: Selected Poems of R.F. Brissenden (editor), McPhee Gribble/Penguin, 1992
The House of Balthus (novel), Allen & Unwin, 1995
Black Sea (short fiction), Allen & Unwin, 1997
The Scythe Honed Fine: A Celebration on the Occasion of A.D. Hope�s Ninetieth Birthday, National Library of Australia, 1998
The Dead (story), Vagabond, 1999
Selected Poetry and Prose of A.D. Hope, Halstead Press, 2000
The Double Looking Glass: New and Classic Essays on the Poetry of A.D. Hope, Univ. of Queensland Press, 2000.
De/Scription (essay), Vagabond, 2000
Hoja do Jasnega Rtica (Walking to Point Clear: Selected Poems), trans Bert Pribac, Cankarjev dom (Ljubljana), 2003
Walking to Point Clear (poetry), Brandl & Schlesinger, 2005
Urban Elegies (poetry), Island Press, 2007
The Shorter Poems of G.V.Catullus - a new translation by A.D.Hope (editor), Brandl & Schlesinger, 2007
The Fern Tattoo (novel), Univ. of Queensland Press, 2007 [shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award 2008]
The Golden Boat (transl., ed. of Srecko Kosovel's poems), Salt Publishing, 2008.
The Balcony (poetry), Univ. of Queensland Press, 2008
Forthcoming:
The Collected Works of Ern Malley and Ador� Floupette (translation + essays)
The Umbrella Club (novel)
Napoleon�s Roads (short fiction)
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