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REVIEW OF 'THE UNSPEAK POEMS
and other verses'

Mark Roberts, 'Cordite Poetry Review'

POEMS FROM 'THE UNSPEAK POEMS
and other verses'

Pentecostal Chillout
Advice to an Emerging Poet
Clancy of the Cultural Studies Department

REVIEWS OF OTHER BOOKS BY TIM THORNE

Taking Queen Victoria to Inveresk (1997)
Best Bitter (2003)
I Con (2009)

MORE POETRY BY TIM THORNE

Bronte Country
Jonathan Burke McHugo Comes to Town
Tourism
When in California
Normality
Alabama

LAUNCH SPEECHES

BARNARD, Jenny: First Blue (14th Oct 2005)
TULLY, John: Robbed of Every Blessing (2015)

INTERVIEW

A conversation with Tim Thorne (2007)

REVIEWS BY TIM THORNE

ALVAREZ, Ivy (edited): A Slice of Cherry Pie
(Anthology) A Salt Reader
ALVAREZ, Ivy (edited): We Don't Stop Here
BENNETT, Stefanie: Symphony for Heart and Stone
KNIGHT, Karen, MATHISON, Robyn, KNIGHT, Norma, REEVES, Lyn, WINFIELD, Liz: Republican Dreaming
LOMER, Kathryn. Extraction of Arrows
MANSELL, Chris: Mortification & Lies
MINTER, Peter: Blue Grass
RIETH, Homer: The Dinng Car Scene
SIMPSON, Matt: In Deep
WEARNE, Alan: Kicking in Danger

          Tim Thorne

TIM THORNE (1944-2021) worked as a poet in schools, universities, trade unions, industry associations, prisons and art galleries in places as diverse as Darwin, Liverpool and Prince Edward Island.

He was a national finalist in the Poetry Slam in 2009 and 2010. Thorne was awarded the Stanford Writing Scholarship, 1971, New Poetry Award, 1973, Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship for poetry, 1978, the Gleebooks Poetry Sprint, 1995, the Launceston Poetry Cup, 2006 & 2008, the William Baylebridge award, 2007; and the Christopher Brennan Award, 2012. He also received support from the Australia Council, Arts Tasmania and the Eleanor Dark Foundation.

Tim Thorne wrote sixteen volumes of poetry. In 1985, he inaugurated the Tasmanian Poetry Festival, which he directed until 2001 and which incorporates his invention, the Launceston Poetry Cup, a performance poetry concept now imitated all over Australia and internationally. He also established Cornford Press, a publishing house with an emphasis on publishing poetry by Tasmanians or with a Tasmanian connection.