Lisa Gorton

Lisa Gorton (born 1972) is an Australian poet, novelist, literary editor and essayist.

Education

Gorton was born in 1972.[1] She attended St Catherine's School in Toorak, Victoria, graduating in 1989. She gained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne, studying poetry with Chris Wallace-Crabbe.[2][3] She then won a Rhodes Scholarship which enabled her to complete a Master of Arts and then PhD at the University of Oxford.[4] Her doctorate was on John Donne, for which she won the John Donne Society Award for Distinguished Publication in Donne Studies.[5] While at Oxford she worked as a tutor for a time at Rhodes University in South Africa.[2]

Career

Gorton returned and worked for McKinsey and Company and Scaffidi Hugh-Jones. She then became a full-time writer.[2]

In 1994 she was awarded the inaugural Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize.[6]

At TEDxSydney 2010 Gorton gave a poetry reading.[7]

Having previously worked as poetry editor for the literary journal, Gorton was the Australian Book Review's Poet of the Month in October 2019.[8][9] Gorton has contributed essays to the Australian Book Review[8] and the Sydney Review of Books.[10]

She is the grand-daughter of the former Prime Minister John Gorton.[6]

Awards and recognition

Works

Poetry
  • Press Release, Giramondo, 2007 ISBN 978-1-920882-34-1
  • Hotel Hyperion, Giramondo, 2012 ISBN 978-1-922146-27-4
  • Empirical, Giramondo, 2019 ISBN 978-1-925818-11-6

Individual poems have been published in Heat magazine, Poetry magazine,[17] The Best Australian Poems 2008,[18] The Best Australian Poems 2009,[19] The Best Australian Poems 2010,[20] The Best Australian Poems 2012[21]

Novels
  • Cloudland, Pan Macmillan Australia, 2008 ISBN 978-1-741982-72-5
  • The Life of Houses, Giramondo, 2015 ISBN 978-1-922146-80-9

Edited
  • The Best Australia Poems 2013, Black Inc[22]
gollark: A lot of the time you're just doing boring drudgery integrating other already-existing things, which will soon be significantly automated I think. Sometimes you actually need to spend time thinking about clever algorithms to do a thing, or how to make your thing go faster, or why your code mysteriously doesn't work, which is harder.
gollark: It's mentally challenging, sometimes, but obviously not particularly physically hard.
gollark: There are lots of cool applications now. Automatic generation of art, protein folding, human-level competitive programming, good OCR.
gollark: Ah, but it's *very complicated* curve fitting which can sometimes do interesting things.
gollark: Any particular improvement might not work, but I would be *very very surprised* if people several hundred years ago just happened to stumble on the optimal court system.

References
  1. "Gorton, Lisa (1972-) - People and organisations". Trove. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  2. "Dr Lisa Gorton". St Catherines School. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  3. Sullivan, Jane (17 April 2015). "Lisa Gorton: Prize-winning poet writes her first novel". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  4. "Lisa Gorton". Red Room Poetry. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  5. "Lisa Gorton". www.australianbookreview.com.au. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  6. Sullivan, Jane (17 April 2015). "Lisa Gorton: Prize-winning poet writes her first novel". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  7. "Lisa Gorton". TEDxSydney. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  8. "Lisa Gorton". Australian Book Review. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  9. "Lisa Gorton is Poet of the Month". Australian Book Review. No. 415. October 2019. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  10. "Lisa Gorton". Sydney Review of Books. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  11. "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: Winners and Shortlist 2008, State Library of Victoria". 3 January 2009. Archived from the original on 3 January 2009. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  12. "2014 Premier's Book Awards". State Library of Western Australia. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  13. "Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal". Mildura Writers Festival. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  14. "Winners and shortlist". Department of Communications and the Arts. 2 November 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  15. "The Life of Houses by Lisa Gorton". www.angusrobertson.com.au. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  16. "NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 20 March 2020. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  17. "Lisa Gorton". Poetry Foundation. 22 March 2020. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  18. The best Australian poems 2008. Rose, Peter. Melbourne: Black Inc. 2008. ISBN 978-1-86395-303-0. OCLC 277159164.CS1 maint: others (link)
  19. The best Australian poems 2009. Adamson, Robert. Melbourne: Black Inc. 2009. ISBN 978-1-86395-452-5. OCLC 472529846.CS1 maint: others (link)
  20. The best Australian poems 2010. Adamson, Robert, 1943-. Melbourne: Black Inc. 2010. ISBN 978-1-86395-496-9. OCLC 681623372.CS1 maint: others (link)
  21. The best Australian poems 2012. Tranter, John (John Ernest), 1943-. Collingwood, Vic.: Black Inc. 2012. ISBN 978-1-86395-581-2. OCLC 816172127.CS1 maint: others (link)
  22. The best Australian poems 2013. Gorton, Lisa, 1972-. Collingwood, VIC. ISBN 978-1-86395-627-7. OCLC 867108727.CS1 maint: others (link)
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