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Philip Salom is a contemporary Australian poet whose books have attracted widespread acclaim. He has published fourteen books - twelve collections of poetry and two novels - notable for their originality and expansiveness and for surprising differences from title to title.
Major awards (apart from the two Commonwealth Poetry Book Prizes in London) include the Western Australian Premiers Prize (twice for Poetry and once for Fiction) and the prestigious Newcastle Poetry Prize (in 1996 and again in 2000). He has received several major Australian Council Fellowships and also many shortlistings for his books.
In 2003 Philip Salom was recognised with the Christopher Brennan Award - a prize given for lifetime achievement in poetry, recognising a poet who produces work "of sustained quality and distinction".
Puncher and Wattmann titles by Philip Salom
Alterworld
- reviews: Philip Salom, ‘Alterworld’ in The Australian
- reviews: Philip Salom, ‘Alterworld’ in The Compulsive Reader
- reviews: Philip Salom, ‘Alterworld’ in The Sydney Morning Herald
- reviews: Philip Salom, ‘Alterworld ’ in Cordite
- on other websites:
Podcast - Philip Salom on Alterworld - interview with Magdalena Ball
Philip Salom’s Alterworld reviewed in Cordite by Graeme Miles
- on other websites:
The Keeper of Fish by Alan Fish and Keeping Carter by MA Carter (both edited by Philip Salom, Puncher and Wattmann)
Poetry: Heteronymic collections, by Alison Croggon, Overland 28 May 2012
Puncher and Wattmann titles edited by Philip Salom
The Keeper of Fish
- reviews: Philip Salom’s ‘The Keeper of Fish’ in The Australian
- reviews: Philip Salom, ‘The Keeper of Fish’ in ABR
- on other websites:
The Keeper of Fish by Alan Fish and Keeping Carter by MA Carter (both edited by Philip Salom, Puncher and Wattmann)
Poetry: Heteronymic collections, by Alison Croggon, Overland 28 May 2012
- samples: Alan Fish, ‘When I was’
- reviews: Alan Fish and MA Carter (ed. Philip Salom) in So Long Bulletin
- reviews: Philip Salom, ‘The Keeper of Fish’ in ABR
- on other websites:
The Keeper of Fish by Alan Fish and Keeping Carter by MA Carter (both edited by Philip Salom, Puncher and Wattmann)
Poetry: Heteronymic collections, by Alison Croggon, Overland 28 May 2012
- samples: MA Carter, ‘Love and Death as Usual’
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