NATHAN CURNOW
Nathan Curnow has been writing and performing for over twenty years, with his work featuring around Australia and overseas.
His words have been
projected onto buildings, performed on stage, inscribed on park benches, turned into song, visual art, and published in beautiful
books.
His collections include No Other Life But This, The Ghost Poetry Project, RADAR, The Right Wrong Notes, The Apocalypse Awards
and
A Hill to Die On (August 2024, Liquid Amber Press).
In 2010 Curnow co-edited the 30th birthday edition of Going Down Swinging and was a recipient of the Josephine Ulrick
Poetry Prize.
From 2019-2021 he judged the Woorilla Poetry Prize. He has also adjudicated for The Newcastle, the Martha Richardson and the
MPU International Prize for Poetry.
In August 2012, Walleah Press published 'RADAR', jointly written by Kevin Brophy and Nathan Curnow.
It is truly a double. My poems are (seemingly) conscious, direct confessions and yours are unconscious waking dreams.
- Nathan Curnow
This world always senses another world. Maybe your poems rescue mine while mine throw a life line to yours.
- Kevin Brophy
SEE ALSO
Poetry
Launch speeches
Nathan Curnow's The Ghost Project
Interviews
(From the journal Verity La)
An interview with Nathan Curnow and Kevin Brophy (Oct 2012)
A conversation with Nathan Curnow (May 2014)
Conversations: Nathan Curnow (Feb 2018)