Chris Mansell | |
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| Born | 1953 Sydney, Australia |
| Occupation | Poet, publisher |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Citizenship | Australia |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney |
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Chris Mansell (born 1953) is an Australianpoet andpublisher.
Born inSydney, Chris Mansell grew up on the Central Coast ofNew South Wales and inLae, Papua New Guinea, later studying economics at theUniversity of Sydney.[1] She was active in Sydney in the 1970s and 1980s as an editor and poet and since the 1980s has lived on the south coast of NSW, Australia where she continues to write, perform, publish and edit. In 1978, she andDane Thwaites began a magazine calledCompass Poetry & Prose which published many of the young Australian poets of the time. She closed the magazine in 1987 and soon after, was a member of the collective (which includedDavid Reiter among others) who founded Five Islands Press. She now runs PressPress, a small independent poetry press she founded in 2002.[2]
Like many poets of her generation, Mansell has made her living by performing her work, publishing and teaching writing at various institutions. Primarily a poet, she has also written a number of plays includingSome Sunny Day. Her collectionMortifications & Lies has been described as a 'groundbreaking work' because of its experimentation with form and its overtly political content.[3]Love Poems is less political, alivre composé which takes subtler formal risks.Spine Lingo: new and selected poems appeared with Kardoorair in 2011. Always interested in experimentation with form, she now also works in digital media and artist editions which are experimental in physical form as well as content. On this front, her newest works (Stung andStung More) comprise poems in the 'quad' form which combines strict restrictions with uninhibited content.[4] The quads definitive collection is in101 Quads.[5][6] She directed the Shoalhaven Poetry Festival in 2002, 2003 and 2005.
She was a winner of theQueensland Premier's Literary Award (poetry) and has been shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literature Award, and theBanjo Award (Victoria).[7] She won the Meanjin Dorothy Porter Poetry Prize in 2014.
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