Tim Metcalf

Tim Metcalf is an Australian poet and doctor and has been described as one of Australia's most published doctor-poets.[1]

He lives at Brogo, New South Wales. He has specialized in remote area medicine since 1984 and has worked in NSW, Victoria, NT and British Columbia.[2] In 2007 he was awarded the ACT Writing and Publishing Awards poetry award for his anthology of poems Verbal Medicine..[3] Verbal Medicine is his fourth book.

He was awarded First Prize in the Annual Australian W B Yeats Poetry Prize in 2000 for his entry 'Stages of Dying"

Bibliography

• Corvus, Ginninderra Press Canberra 2001 ISBN 1740271149
• Cut to the Word, Ginninderra Press Canberra 2002 ISBN 1740271688
• Into the No Zone, Ginninderra Press Canberra 2003 ISBN 174027167X
• Verbal Medicine, Ginninderra Press, Canberra, 2006 ISBN 1-74027-369-9
• The Solution to Us, Ginninderra Press Adelaide 2008 ISBN 1-74027-473-3
• The Effective Butterfly, Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide 2010 ISBN 9781740276542
• Last To Go and Other Poems, Picaro Press, Cardiff NSW 2012
• The Underwritten Plain, Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide 2018 ISBN 9781760415778

References

1. If Pain Persists by Steve Trumble MD in Australian Family Physician Vol. 34, No. 8, August 2005
2. Biography - 9th National Rural Health Conference 2007
3. Local Writer's Poetry Prize, Bega News, 21 Dec 2007

External links

• Tim Metcalf's Home Page contains poems and essays, a full bibliography, readings in medical literature developed for Australian National University Medical School, and the Poets of the Bega Valley Audio Project
• Review of Verbal Medicine by Dr Jim Leavesley, Australian Doctor, 1 Feb 2007