Caroline Caddy

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Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Caroline Mavis Caddy (born 20 January 1944)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> is an Australian poet.

BiographyEdit

Born in Western Australia to an Australian mother and an American father, Caroline Mavis Caddy spent part of her childhood in the United States and Japan. She returned to Western Australia where she finished high school,<ref>Australian Poets and Their Works, by William Wilde, Oxford University Press, 1996</ref> and later worked as a dental nurse with the Road Dental Unit. According to Queensland poet Jaya Savige "Caddy writes with equal verve about the rural southwest of WA and her time abroad, particularly in China (though also Canada and Antarctica). ...Her relaxed, often conversational tone belies her sharp eye for detail which, combined with a knack for simile and metaphor, has remained acute throughout her career."<ref>Template:Citation </ref>

AwardsEdit

  • 1990 – Western Australian Week Literary Award for poetry<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 1992 – National Book Council Banjo Award for Poetry<ref name=":0" />
  • 2008 – Wesley Michel Wright Prize<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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BibliographyEdit

  • Singing at Night (1980)
  • Letters From the North (1985)
  • Beach Plastic (1989)
  • Conquistadors (1991)
  • Antarctica (1996)
  • Working Temple (1996)
  • Editing the Moon (1999)
  • Esperance: New and Selected Poems (2007)
  • Burning Bright (2010)

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