St Clair: Three Narratives By John Alan Scott

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Award winning collection of 30 prose poems from John Scott Reviewing Scott s most recent novel N for The Age in 2014 critic Peter Craven Back in the late 1960s when drugs and Vietnam were all the go when Albert Langer fomented revolution and Elijah Moshinsky directed plays Monash University sported a young poet called John Scott It was a good period and a good place for Scott s fellow Monash poets included Alan Wearne and Laurie Duggan But the man who looked and sounded like a poet the one with the Dylan Thomas gift was Scott St Clair is evidence of that gift First published in 1986 it won the Newcastle Poetry Prize and was joint winner of the C. St clair kitchens J Dennis Prize for Poetry John Scott is an award winning poet and novelist and the author of 16 books These include the Victorian Premier s Award winning What I Have Written 1993 also part of the Untapped Collection The Architect 2001 and most recently N 2014 St Clair Three NarrativesJohn Alan Scott who has published under the names John A Scott and John Scott is an English Australian poet novelist and academic. St clair juvenile detention center Scott was born in Littlehampton in Sussex England migrating to Australia during his childhood Over several books of poetry his work developed in an experimental direction unusual in Australian poetry owing partly to his interest in translation Indeed he has translated a volume Elegies of the contemporary French poet Emmanuel Hocquard However since the 1990s he has concentrated on producing novels His work has won him the Victorian Premiers Award twice in 1986 and again in 1994 The collection of novellas What I Have Written has been filmed from his own screenplay and he has been translated into F John Alan Scott who has published under the names John A Scott and John Scott is an English Australian poet novelist and academic. Book city yonge st clair Scott was born in Littlehampton in Sussex England migrating to Australia during his childhood Over several books of poetry his work developed in an experimental direction unusual in Australian poetry owing partly to his interest in translation Indeed he has translated a volume Elegies of the contemporary French poet Emmanuel Hocquard However since the 1990s he has concentrated on producing novels His work has won him the Victorian Premier s Award twice in 1986 and again in 1994 The collection of novellas What I Have Written has been filmed from his own screenplay and he has been translated into French German and Slovenian He has taught in the Faculty of Creative Arts at Wollongong University but now writes full time site_link