Mark Roberts Resume

Awards

• 2023 Long Listed Liquid Amber Poetry Prize
• 2019 Long Listed Joanne Burns Award
• 2016 Winner Byron Bay Poetry Prize
• 2014 Long Listed Joanne Burns Award
• 2013 Runner Up Joanne Burns Award

Books

• Six Months. prose poems, chapbook. Rochford Press. Publication date May 2024
• Concrete Flamingos. Poetry. Island Press 2016
• Stepping Out of Line. Prose Poem Rochford Street Press 1986

Works in Progress

• Subsidenza, Subsidence, Sedání. Novel
• Lacuna. Memoir/history/creative nonfiction. Prose/Prose Poems/Prose. 
• The Office of Literary Endeavours. Poetry
• Film Poems (chapbook). 

Anthologies

• ‘self evacuation’ and ‘charcoal drawing’ in From the Ashes: A poetry collection in support of the 2019-2020 Australian Bushfire relief effort, edited by C.S. Hughes. Maximun Felix Media, 2020
• ‘Ganhabula’ in Shuffle, An Anthology of Microlit, Spineless Wonders 2019
• ‘Breaking – 1918’ in To End all Wars, Puncher & Wattmann 2018
• ‘Two Photographs’ in The Disappearing Project, The Red Room Company 2016 http://disappearing.com.au/poem/photographs/
• ‘Pearl Meat’ and ‘Mist’ (Poems), Forgetting is So Long : An Anthology of Australian Love Poetry Black Rune Press Melbourne 2016
• ‘Port Hacking Poem’ and ‘Fairyland’ (Poems) Guide to Sydney Rivers, Muese Press Sydney 2015
• ‘Fishing at Swansea’ and ‘Two Photographs’ (Poems) A Slow Combusting Hymn : Poetry from and About Newcastle and the Hunter Region in Newcastle ASM and Cerberus Press 2014
• ‘City Circle’ (Micro Fiction) Flashing the Square : Microfiction and Prose Poems Spineless Wonders 2014
• ‘Cities That are Not Dublin’ (Fiction) Writing to the Edge Spineless WOnders 2013
• ‘Library Sex’ and ‘I read you like a poem’  Australian Love Poems 2013 Inkerman & Blunt 2013
• ‘Walking the Landscape’ (poem)  Notes for the Translators : From 142 New Zealand and Australian Poets ASM and Cerberus Press 2012
• ‘Cameraman’ (poem)  The Best Australian Poems 2012
• Contributor to The Good Reading: 100 Critics Review Contemporary Fiction compiled by Helen Daniel McPhee Gribble 1989

Selected Magazine and Journal Publication – Creative

• ‘Feral Green Marketing’ Plumwood Mountain Vol.07 N.01 March 2020 https://plumwoodmountain.com/poem/feral-green-marketing/
• ‘Poems on films: Le Redoutable, directed by Michel Hazanavicius 2017′, Read On Issue 3, Jan 2020
• ‘Climbing’ Read On Issue 3, Jan 2020
• ‘6.02pm to Mt Victoria’ Read On Issue 3, Jan 2020
• ‘Poems on films: Le Gai Savoir, Jean-Luc Godard 1969, Read On Issue 3, Jan 2020
• ‘Returns’ Rabbit 29, December 2019
• ‘December 31, 2019’ Project 366, December 2019 https://project365plus.blogspot.com/2019/12/december-31-2019.html
• ‘A New Normal’, Bluepepper 24 December 2019. https://bluepepper.blogspot.com/2019/12/new-poetry-by-mark-roberts.html
• ‘Blue Water Tank’ Re-Side Issue 2 October 2019
• ‘Poems on films – Le Quattro Volte’ Cordite Issue 92, August 2019 http://cordite.org.au/poetry/notheme8/poems-on-films-le-quattro-volte/
• ‘Place Burial’ Pink Cover Zine Issue 3, November 2018
• ‘limestone’  Communion Arts Journal Issue 8 December 2017
• ‘The Office of Literary Endeavours: Maree’ Postcolonial Text Vol 12, No1 (2017)
• Windradyne : The Bathurst Wars  Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 7 no. 1 2017
• ‘The Conscription Vote – 1916/17’  Rochford Street Review , April – June no. 22 2017
• ‘Leaving Roscommon – Strokestown Park (Gorta Mór)’ Rochford Street Review , April – June no. 22 2017
• ‘Lewis Ponds Creek / Drunong Drung’  Australian Poetry Collaboration #26 – Manly Art Gallery & Museum Spirit of the Land.
• “I Can Be Tight and Nervy as the Top String on a Violin”, Tincture Journal , Autumn no. 17 2017; (p. 68)
• ‘May Day’ Arena Magazine , October – November no. 144 2016
• ‘A History’ Arena Magazine , October – November no. 144 2016
• ‘outcomes’ and ‘Cutting the Grass’ in The Basil O’ November 2016 http://thebasiloflaherty.weebly.com/mark-roberts.html
• ‘Sharks’ in Otoliths Issue 43 November 2016 http://the-otolith.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/mark-roberts.html
• ‘infinite loop—moving house’ In-Flight Literary Magazine (USA) Issue 8 July 2016 (http://inflightlitmag.com/issues/issue8/author.html?author=Mark%20Roberts&work1=infinite%20loop%E2%80%94moving%20house#work1)
• ‘The Age of Rubbish’ (Poem) Bluepepper July 2016 (http://bluepepper.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/new-poetry-by-mark-roberts.html)
• ‘Reading Poetry’ (Poem) In-Flight Literary Magazine (USA) Issue 7 April 2016 (http://inflightlitmag.com/issues/issue7/author.html?author=Mark%20Roberts&work1=reading%20poetry&work2=red#work1)
• ‘Red” (Poem) In-Flight Literary Magazine (USA) Issue 7 April 2016 (http://inflightlitmag.com/issues/issue7/author.html?author=Mark%20Roberts&work1=reading%20poetry&work2=red#work2)
• ‘Red’ (Short Fiction) The Basil O’ Flaherty (USA) No 1 March 2016 (http://thebasiloflaherty.weebly.com/archives5.html)
• ‘Museum’ (Poem) Verity La February 2016 (http://verityla.com/pachinko-sunsets-and-concrete-flamingos-poems-by-david-gilbey-and-mark-roberts/). Also appeared in Southerly 74.1 2014
• ‘crossing the mountains’ (poem) The Stockholm Review of Literature Jan 2016  https://thestockholmreview.org/the-stagnelius-section/mark-roberts/
• ‘Byron Bay’ (Poem) Plumwood Journal Vol 3 February 2016 https://plumwoodmountain.com/byron-bay/The Sky is Moving : Poems for Voice and Movement
• ‘How Many More Are Coming’ (Poem) Cordite Poetry Review Vol 53 https://cordite.org.au/poetry/theend/how-many-more-are-coming/
• ‘The War’ (Poem) Writ Poetry Review No 3 2015 http://www.writreview.com.au/the-war-by-mark-roberts.html
• ‘Piano Roll : Poem in Red Flat’ (Poem) Regime No 5 2015
• ‘Shapes’ (Poem) Regime No 5 2015
• ‘Posthumous’ (Poem) Verity La February 2014 http://verityla.com/posthumous-mark-roberts/
• ‘Written Under Duress’ (experimental prose)  Australian Latino Press 2014
• ‘building site at midnight’, ‘green balloon’ and ‘october 1933’ in Exfic (Featured Writer) August 2014.  https://exfic.com/2014/08/01/featured-author-mark-roberts/
• ‘blue’ (Poem) ETZ No 8 2014
• ‘The Only Marigold in Erskineville‘ (Poem) ETZ No 8 2014
• ‘Geology’ (Poem) Tincture Journal , No. 7 2014
• Prehistory’ (Poem) Regime No 4 2014.
• ‘Pacific Solution 3’ (Visual Poem)  Cordite Poetry Review No. 41 2013
• ‘Ishmael’  Verity La December 2013 http://verityla.com/ishmael-mark-roberts/
• ‘From Deep Like A Poet (Series 2)’ (visual poem)  Otoliths, No. 31 2013;
• ‘From the Life of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’ (poem)  ETZ , No. 5 2013
• ‘Letter to Frank’ (poem) ETZ , No. 5 2013
• ‘Blue Tongue’ in The Wonder Book of Poetry March 2013
• ‘After Arrival – Storm at Sea’ and ‘Martyrs’ Beach’ (poems) Mascara Literary Review , No. 13 2013;
• ‘Cycle’ (poem)  Social Alternatives Vol 32 No 1 2013
• ‘the chase (poem) Exfic August 2013 https://exfic.com/2013/08/28/the-chase-by-mark-roberts/
• ‘The Guard’ and ‘Biggles Flies Undone’ in The Wonder Book of Poetry January 2013
• ‘Eating Poetry’, ‘Deconstructing Poetry’, ‘Reading and Walking’ and ‘Reading by Numbers’ (poems) ETZ , No. 3 2012.
• After Rain (Lane Cove River) (poems)  Social Alternatives Vol. 31 no. 2 2012
• ‘Cameraman’ (poem)  Cordite Poetry Review Vol. 39.0 2012
• ‘You Pay’ (poem)  Southern Review Vol. 29 no. 3 1996
• ‘Battle Front’ (poem) Four W No. 6 1995.
• ‘Beach Movie’ (poem)  Southerly, Vol. 55 no. 4 1995-1996

Selected Articles and Reviews

• ‘Luciano Prisco – New Works, Poems from Christopher Barnett: Mark Roberts on Christopher Barnett, Poetry and Collaboration’ introduction to the exhibition held at Langford 120 Gallery, Melbourne 10 September to 9 October 2016.
• ‘Making Connections : Mark Roberts Launches Headwaters by Anthony Lawrence at the Newcastle Writers Festival’ Rochford Street Review Issue 18 2016
• A Very Sydney Decadence : Mark Roberts Reviews ‘Ruben Guthrie’ (Movie Review) Rochford Street Review Issue 15 2015.
• ‘2,500 Years Ago Slam Poetry Was Born: Previewing Poetic License by Outer Urban Projects’ Rochford Street Review Issue 14 2015.
• ‘The Doing Is the Discovery and the Discovery Is the Making : Sheila Murphy Talks to Mark Roberts’ Rochford Street Review Issue 14 2015.
• ‘Tim Thorne’s The Unspeak Poems and Other Verses’ Review Cordite Poetry Review No 49.0 2015.
• Mallarme Got It Wrong : Mark Roberts Reviews Captives by Angela Meyer’  Rochford Street Review Issue 13 2015
• Pushing Boundaries. Mark Roberts Reviews Beside Rivers by Susan Adams Rochford Street Review Issue 11 2014
• ‘Pushing Boundaries : Mark Roberts Reviews Amphora by Joanne Burns’ Rochford Street Review Issue 7 2013
• ‘Fragments and the Whole : Mark Roberts Reviews The Pursuit of Happiness by Laurie Duggan  Rochford Street Review Issue 7 2013.
• ‘The Ultimate Commitment : Michael Dransfield on the 40th Anniversary of His Death’ Rochford Street Review Issue 7 2013.
• Spinifex Press and Finola Moorhead’s Modern Classic Rochford Street Review Issue 7 2013.
• ‘Confronting the Culture, Language and History of War : Mark Roberts Reviews Valence: Considering War Through Poetry and Theory by Susan Hawthorne’
• ‘Cornelis Vleeskens : Towards a Retrospective’ P76 Issue 7 2012
• ‘Playful Interplay : Mark Roberts Reviews Portraits – 54 Poems by Lizz Murphy’ Rochford Street Review , No. 8 2013
• ‘Savouring the Undertow: Mark Roberts Reviews Body Language by Elizabeth Allen’  Rochford Street Review , Issue 6 2013
• ‘Sweet Flesh of Memory: Mark Roberts Reviews  Burning Rice by Eileen Chong’ Rochford Street Review , Issue 6 2013.
• ‘Music and Words: Mark Roberts Reviews Seven Stations : Love Poems For Sydney by  Chris Mansell’  Rochford Street Review, Issue 6 2013.
• Something Disconcerting and Delicious: Mark Roberts Reviews Schadenvale Road by Chris Mansell Rochford Street Review  No 5 2012.
• Torn Papyrus and Weathered Stone: Mark Roberts Reviews N Thing is Set in St ne by Cecilia White Rochford Street Review  No 4 2012.
• ‘Concentrated ‘Ratbaggery: Mark Roberts Reviews Barking Wings by Les Wicks’ Rochford Street Review  No 5 2012.
• ‘Little Gems of Poems: Mark Roberts Reviews Knuckled by Fiona Wright’  Rochford Street Review  No 5 2012.
• ‘Prose Poem or Travel Writing? Mark Roberts Reviews Vanuatu Moon : A Prose Poem by Paul Cliff’ Rochford Street Review  No 3 2012.
• ‘Structure, Technique and Passion Mark Roberts Reviews The Abbotsford Mysteries by Patricia Sykes’ Rochford Street Review  No 3 2012.
• ‘I say AU, you say UA….. Mark Roberts Reviews ‘Contemporary Poetry of Ukraine and Australia’ Rochford Street Review  No 2 2012.
• ‘Scattered Jewels:  Mark Roberts Reviews  Allotments by Laurie Duggan’ Rochford Street Review  No 2 2012.
• ‘Mark Roberts Reviews The Best Australian Poems 2011′ Cordite Poetry Review Vol. 39.1 2012;
• ‘The Beautiful Dead: Mark Roberts Reviews Thirteen Poems from the Dead’ by Rae Desmond Jones  Rochford Street Review No. 1 2011
• ‘Blending into the Buddha Tree Mark Roberts Reviews The Bearded Chameleon’ by Chris Mooney-Singh Rochford Street Review No. 1 2011.
• ‘Review of Pushing at Silence by Andrew Burke’  Scarp , June no. 30 1997
• ‘Review of The Sky is Moving: Poems for Voice and Movement 1994 selected work poetry ; Do Fish Get Seasick : A Collection of Damn Bus Poems Lizz Murphy
• ‘Review of In the Dog Box of Summer by Coral Hull’  Scarp , No. 26 1995.
• ‘Review of Day Easy Sunlight Fine by Chris Mansell’ Scarp , No. 26 1995
• ‘Review of Abrasion by Jenny Boult and Hot Collation’ by Jenny Boult, Sue Moss, Coral Hull and Chris Mansel  Scarp, No. 26 1995
• ‘God and Landscape: A Review of Between Glances Andrew Lansdown’ and On My Empty Feet by Rhyll McMaster’  Overland No. 135 1994
• ‘Tumbling and Balancing: A Review of A Big Life Susan Johnson’ Overland No. 135 1994.
• ‘Review of The Great Wall of Instinct by Martin Langford and The Flower Ornament by Leith Morton’ Scarp No 24 May 1994
• ‘Towards a New Diversity: Martin Johnston and the New Australian Poetry’ Island No 58 1994
• ‘Spiritual Questions: A Review of Easter Sunday Peter Skrzynecki’ Australian Book Review No 157 Dec/Jan 1993/94
• ‘What it Might Imply: A Review of Up On All Fours by Philip Hodgins’ Australian Book Review No 155 October 1993
• ‘Real Community: A Review of The Edge of It by Colleen Burke’ Australian Book Review No 149 April 1993
  
• ‘History, Imagination and Little Red Riding Hood: A Review of Review of The Common Rat by Carmel Bird’ Overland No 131 1993
• ‘Review of Flagging Down Time by Jill Jones and Minga Street: New and Selected Poems by Craig Powell Scarp No 23 1993
• ‘Review of Four Zoas of Australia by Norman Talbot and The Naming of the Harbour and the Trees by Christopher Kelen‘ Scarp No 22 1993
• ‘New Romance: A Review of My Look’s Caress : A Collection of Modern Romances‘ Southerly Vol 51 1991
• ‘Anthology Adrift in Mid-Tasman: A Review of Speaking with the Sun : New Stories from Australian and New Zealand Writers‘ Sydney Morning Herald 8 June 1991
• ‘Clarity and Skill Give Impact to War Stories: A Review of Journeys into Night D. E. Charlwood and Tall Grow the Tallow-Woods Geoffrey C. Bingham’ Australian Book Review No 134 Sept 1991
• ‘Fallen Angels and Tax Inspectors: A Review of The Tax Inspector by Peter Carey’  The Sydney Review No 34 August 1991
• ‘Small Magazines and Presses’ Editions February no. 6 1990
• ‘Small Magazines at the Canberra WordFest’ Editions , December-January no. 5 1989-1990
• ‘The Pathetic Jogger: A Review of Hitting the Wall : Two Novellas by David Foster’ Australian Book Review No 109 April 1989
• ‘Small Press Blockbusters: A Review of Scripsi vol. 5 no. 4 1989 and First Rights: A Decade of Island Magazine‘ Editions No 4 November 1989
• ‘Exiles to the Future and Beyond: A Review of Song of Gondwana by Craig Robertson’ Australian Bookseller & Publisher  October no. 115 1989