Jennifer Compton

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Jennifer Compton was born in New Zealand and emigrated to Australia in 1972. She has been publishing poetry in magazines etc. since the age of 14 in New Zealand and Australia, and more recently in the UK, USA and Canada. In the early seventies she attended the NIDA Playwrights Studio and wrote for ABC’s Certain Women. Her play Crossfire jointly won the Newcastle Playwriting Competition and was premiered at the Nimrod Theatre in 1974. She has written many radio plays which have been produced by the ABC and Radio NZ.Her first book of poetry From The Other Woman was published as part of the Five Islands new Poets series in 1993. In 1995 she was awarded the NSW Ministry for the Arts Fellowship, the first time this has been awarded for poetry. In the same year her poem ‘Blue Leaves’ won the Robert Harris Poetry Prize. Another stage play, The Big Picture, written with the aid of a grant from the Australian Council for the Arts, premiered at the Griffin Theatre in
1997. Her book of poetry, Blue, was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize in 2001. Parker & Quink, another book of poetry, was published at the beginning of 2004. In June 2004, she was a guest at the International Festival of Poetry in Genoa.


She lives in Wingello on the Southern Highlands of NSW with her husband and children.

Postal Address:
“Verona” c/- PO Wingello NSW 2579 Australia.

Jennifer
Compton can be contacted at Email: (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Jennifer Compton’s publications include:
Plays:
Crossfire, (Currency Press, 1976), The Big Picture (Currency Press, 1998), Poetry: From The Other Woman, (Five Islands Press, 1993), Aroha, (Flarestack Press, 1998), Blue, (Ginninderra Press, 2000), Parker & Quink, (Ginninderra Press, 2004).

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