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Audrey Longbottom

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Audrey Clarice Longbottom (c.1922 – 1986) was an Australian poet.[1]

Life

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Longbottom was born in Coramba, New South Wales,[1] around 1922. After leaving school aged fourteen,[2] she later attended the University of Wollongong as a mature student. She then began to write poetry and prose.[1]

Longbottom won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1980, and the Grenfell Henry Lawson Prize in 1981.[1] She died on 21 April 1986 at Cremorne, New South Wales.[2]

Works

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  • Relatives and reliques. Sydney: Wentworth Books, 1979.
  • (with Susan McGowan and Kathryn Purnell) Trillium : a selection of poetry. Newtown, Vic.: Neptune Press, 1983.
  • The solitary islands. Sydney: Ollif Pub. Co., 1985.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d William H. Wilde; Joy Hooton; Barry Andrews (1994). The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature. Oxford University Press. p. 477. ISBN 978-0-19-553381-1.
  2. ^ a b Audrey Longbottom, AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Accessed 1 September 2020.