Louise Crisp

Louise Crisp (born 1957) is a contemporary Australian poet.

Louise Crisp lives in East Gippsland (Victoria) with her partner and two daughters. Her first collection was The luminous ocean, a shared volume with Valery Wilde's In the Half-Light. She has published several more books of poetry and worked, among other occupations, as a fire tower watcher on which she has written in Pearl & sea fed. This volume was shortlisted for the 1995 C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry.

Crisp's 2019 book, Yuiquimbiang, was shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry.^[1]

Works

Poetry

• The luminous ocean. (Friendly Street Poets, 1988)
• Pearl & sea fed. (New Zealand: Hazard Press, 1994) ISBN 0-908790-79-1
• Ruby Camp: A Snowy River series. (Melbourne: Spinifex Press, 1998) ISBN 1-875559-83-3
• Three golden fish. (Wind and Water Press, 2004) ISBN 0-9585422-8-7
• Uplands: poems. (Five Islands Press, c.2007) ISBN 0-7340369-2-2
• Yuiquimbiang. (Cordintebooks, 2019) ISBN 9-7806480568-9-8

References

• thylazine.org

External links

• 3 poems
• 6 poems
• River poem at Deep South