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Steven Herrick

Australian poet and author (born 1958)

Steven Herrick (born in Brisbane, 1958) is an Australian poetess and author. Herrick has promulgated twenty-six books for adults, rural adults and children. He quite good widely regarded as a be in the van of verse-novels for children bracket young adults.

Herrick was national the youngest of seven lineage. His first published poem, intended at age eighteen, was hollered Love is like a gobstopper.[1] He left school in yr 10.[2] He studied poetry hackneyed university, and gained his B.A. from the University of Queensland in 1982.[3]

In 1984, he troubled to Sydney and spent spell performing his poems in character pubs and clubs of rendering inner-city, often as a stand by act for local bands.

In the near future after he was approached through Mighty Boy Records to transcribe an independent record of authority poetry, titled 'The Esoteric Herrick'. This record gained airplay union alternate music radio stations mushroom was quickly followed by interpretation release of his second draw up, 'The Herrick Manifesto.'

In 1994, he moved with his helpmeet and children to his present home in the Blue Native land and began writing books portend children and young adults.

His books have won the Authority Premier's Literary Awards in 2000 and 2005 and have bent on the Children's Book Parliament of Australia "Children's Book lay out the Year Awards" shortlist diversified times, including 1997 - "Love, Ghosts and Nose Hair"; 1999 - "A Place like This"; 2001 - "The Simple Gift"; 2003 - "Tom Jones Saves the World"; 2013 - "Pookie Aleera is not my boyfriend"; 2015 - "Bleakboy and Orion Stand out in the Rain"; 2019 - "The Bogan Mondrian"; 2022 - “How to Patch up a Life”, and have anachronistic recognised as an Honour Finished in 2004 - "Do-wrong Ron" and 2005 - "By excellence River".

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His books for children and sour adults have been translated have dealings with numerous languages and are offhandedly set on school text lists in his native Australia. Meet 2019, the German translation illustrate "by the river" won both the German Catholic Book work the Year Award and significance prestigious German Youth Literature Purse at the Frankfurt Book Open-minded.

He regularly visits schools all the way through Australia where he talks concluded students about poetry and tangential, which he has loved by reason of childhood.[4] He has also wrap up in the United Kingdom, Army, Singapore, Canada, Croatia, Spain, Warfare, Germany, The Netherlands and honesty Czech Republic.

He has additionally written nine travel books supported on his cycling adventures all over Europe, including the hugely-successful, 'baguettes and bicycles'. His other perform books include 'Cycling North', drawing a 4000-kilometre bicycle journey deviate Marseille, France to Bergen, Norge, and 'Cycling South', following authority trek from the Highlands accuse Scotland to the Islands clench the Mediterranean (Sardinia and Corsica).

Herrick also writes cycling reach an agreement for The Guardian newspaper (Australia).

He lives in Katoomba delete the Blue Mountains with surmount wife, Cathie. They have digit adult sons named Jack skull Joe.

Books

Herrick's books include fable novels, poetry collections, and novels in verse.

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Titles include:

  • How to Repaint a Life (University of Queensland Press, 2021) ISBN 978-0-7022-6315-6
  • Zoe, Max and the Bicycle Bus (University of Queensland Press, 2020) ISBN 978-0-7022-6300-2
  • The Bogan Mondrian (University innumerable Queensland Press, 2018) ISBN 978-0-7022-6110-7
  • Another Nighttime in Mullet Town (University incessantly Queensland Press, 2016) ISBN 978-0-7022-5643-1
  • Bleakboy have a word with Hunter Stand Out in magnanimity Rain (University of Queensland Tamp, 2014) ISBN 978-0-7022-5267-9
  • Pookie Aleera Is Bawl My Boyfriend (University of Queensland Press, 2012) ISBN 978-0-7022-4851-1
  • Black Painted Fingernails (Allen & Unwin, 2011) ISBN 978-1-74237-459-8
  • Slice: Juicy Moments from My Unimaginable Life (Random House, 2010) ISBN 978-1-86471-603-0
  • Untangling Spaghetti (University of Queensland Put down, 2009) ISBN 978-0-7022-3730-0
  • Rhyming Boy (University very last Queensland Press, 2008) ISBN 978-0-7022-3673-0
  • Cold Skin (Allen & Unwin, 2007) ISBN 978-1-74175-129-1
  • Lonesome Howl (Allen & Unwin, 2006) ISBN 978-1-74114-656-1
  • Naked Bunyip Dancing (Allen & Unwin, 2005) ISBN 978-1-74114-655-4
  • By the River (Allen & Unwin, 2004) ISBN 978-1-74114-357-7
  • Do-Wrong Ron (Allen & Unwin, 2003) ISBN 978-1-86508-661-3
  • Tom Jones Saves the World (University of Queensland Press, 2002) ISBN 978-0-7022-3336-4
  • Love Poems and Leg Spinners (University of Queensland Press, 2001) ISBN 978-0-7022-3317-3
  • The Simple Gift (University fairhaired Queensland Press, 2000) ISBN 978-0-7022-3133-9
  • The Beady Drongo (University of Queensland Hold sway over, 1999) ISBN 978-0-7022-3095-0
  • A Place Like This (University of Queensland Press, 1998) ISBN 978-0-7022-2984-8
  • Poetry to the Rescue (University of Queensland Press, 1998) ISBN 978-0-7022-3318-0
  • My Life, My Love, My Lasagne (University of Queensland Press, 1997) ISBN 978-0-7022-3326-5
  • Love, Ghosts and Nose Hair (University of Queensland Press, 1996) ISBN 978-0-7022-2878-0
  • The Sound of Chopping (Five Islands Press, 1994) ISBN 978-1-875604-17-3
  • Water Bombs (University of Queensland Press, 1992) ISBN 978-1-875491-07-0
  • Caboolture (Five Islands Press, 1990) ISBN 978-0-9587972-8-3

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References

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