Lisa Gorton

Joint winner of the 2016 Prime Ministers Award for fiction. The Prime Minister's Literary Awards celebrate outstanding literary talent in Australia and the valuable contribution Australian literature and history makes to the nation's cultural and intellectual life. The Life of Houses is the new novel by the acclaimed poet Lisa Gorton, whose first book of poetry, Press Release, won the...

Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2023, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry The poems in Mirabilia test the relationship between art and politics. They are ekphrastic poems complicated by historical narrative; or, they are political poems, inspired by artworks. The title poem is a tribute to the pangolin, the world's most-trafficked mammal, implicated, some say, in the evolution of coronavirus. Written...

By turns intimate and grand in scale, Gorton's new collection of poems features snow domes, storm glasses, museum display cases, an ancestral home and the air-locked rooms of a mythical space hotel: all images which contain worlds within worlds, rooms which open onto other rooms. It is a baroque collection, playing with notions of inward and outward space, constructing its...

Lisa Gorton is one of Australia's most innovative and interesting writers, a much-awarded poet, novelist, essayist, and scholar. This New and Selected Poems, a tribute to Gorton's achievement, brings together in one volume poems published over the past twenty years, from her first collection Press Release to her most recent Mirabilia. It also includes a substantial new sequence of poems,...

Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020: Poetry Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry The third poetry collection by Lisa Gorton, one of a small number of Australian writers who have won major literary awards for both poetry and fiction. Lisa Gorton began writing Empirical when the Victorian Government of the time...