Jordie Albiston (born 1961) is a contemporary Australian poet and academic.

Jordie Albiston, grew up in Melbourne, studied flute at Victoria College of the Arts before turning to writing. Her first collection of poems, Nervous Arcs, won the Mary Gilmore Award. Her next works were in the form of 'documentary' collections, the first about the first European women in the Botany Bay settlement, and the second collection about Jean Lee, the last woman executed in Australia.

The "Botany Bay Document" evolved out of a Ph D she undertook in literature. This work was later transformed into a performance work called Dreaming Transportation: Voice Portraits of the First Women of White Settlement at Port Jackson by Andrée Greenwell^[1]. In 2003 the performance premiered at the Sydney Festival and in 2004 was staged again at the Sydney Opera House. The performance included the voices of Deborah Conway, Susan Prior, Christine Douglas, Amie McKenna and Jeannie Van de Velde and musicians, Hope Csuturos (violin), James Nightingale (clarinet, saxophone), Jane Williams (cello), Kim Poole (guitar/mandolin), Denise Papaluca (piano), Mardi Chillingworth (double bass) and Jared Underwood (percussion).

In 2006, Jordie Albison's biographical verse, "The Hanging of Jean Lee" was used as the text for an opera created by Andrée Greenwell and Melbourne playwright Abe Pogos and staged at the Sydney Opera House, The Studio.^[2]

Contents 1 Awards and nominations 2 Bibliography 3 Notes 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Awards and nominations

• 1991 - joint winner of the Wesley Michel Wright Award
• 1996 - awarded the Mary Gilmore Award for Nervous Arcs^[3]
• 1997 - Dinny O’Hearn Memorial Fellowship ^[4]
• 2003 - shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, C.J. Dennis Prize for Poetry for The Fall
• 2004 - shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry

[edit] Bibliography

• Utterance, (S.l. : s.n., 1993?)
• Nervous Arcs (Spinifex, 1995)
• Botany Bay Document : a poetic history of the women of Botany Bay (North Fitzroy: Black Pepper publishing, 1996) reviews ^[5]
• The Hanging of Jean Lee (North Fitzroy: Black Pepper publishing, 1998) reviews
• My Secret Life and Other Poems, (Picaro Press, 2002)
• The Fall (White Crane Press, 2003) reviewed
• Vertigo, A Cantata (John Leonard Press, 2007)

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

• Interview by Kate Middleton
• Short interview by Anne Tran

[edit] External links

• Six Villain-elles at softblow.com
• Soul vs Body a poem
• Things to do (Heart)
• The Hanging of Jean Lee - ABC Radio National Poetica's sound version of Andrée Greenwell's composed work in full, with libretto by Jordie Albiston

Persondata
NAME	Albison, Jordie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Australian novelist
DATE OF BIRTH	1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Melbourne, Australia, Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

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