Pi O
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| Notable awards | 2024 Patrick White Award winner |
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П. O. (or Pi O, born 1951) is a Greek-Australian, working class, anarchist poet.[1]
Biography
Born in Katerini, Greece, in 1951, П. O.'s family moved to Australia around 1955. They settled in Fitzroy after several months in a Bonegilla migrant camp.[1]Template:R/superscript
П. O. was inspired to start writing poetry in 1973 when he heard Johnny Cash reciting (religious) poetry while tuning his guitar. П. O. thought he could do as well or better. His work ranges from standup-type rants to 'conceptual' page poetry and concrete poetry, with a heavy emphasis on wordplay and capturing the vitality of everyday speech. Thematically, he commonly portrays the issues of non-Anglo-Celtic working class life.[2]
П. O. won the 2020 Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry for Heide at the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards.[3] He is a finalist for the 2021 Melbourne Prize for Literature.[4] In 2024 he won the Patrick White Literary Award.[5]
Bibliography
Poetry collections
- Fitzroy Brothel: Poems, Strawberry Press (1974)
- Shade, Khasmick Press (1974)
- Drunk and the 'Steve' Poems [1975]
- Emotions in Concrete, Flying Duck Enterprises (1975)
- Street Singe (1976)
- л. 0. Revisited, Wild & Woolley (1976) Template:ISBN
- Humble, Bird in the Hand (1977)
- Panash, Collective Effort (1978)
- Missing Form: Concrete, visual and experimental poems with Peter Murphy and Alex Selenitsch (Collective Effort, 1981)
- The Fuck Poems, Collective Effort (1982)
- Fitzroy Poems, Collective Effort (1989)
- 24 Hrs: The day the language stood still, Collective Effort (1996) Template:ISBN
- The Number Poems and Other Equations, Collective Effort (2000)
- Big Mumbers : New and Selected Poems, Collective Effort (2008) Template:ISBN
- Fitzroy: The Biography, Collective Effort (2015)
- Heide, Giramondo Publishing (2019) Template:ISBN
- The Tour, Giramondo Publishing (2023) Template:ISBN
Edited
- Off the Record, Penguin (1985)
- The Essential Mann, Collective Effort Press (1993)
Selected critical studies and reviews of O's work
- Big numbers : new and selected poems
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Leves, Kerry (Autumn 2009). "Caught in the melee we look for signals : new poetry". Overland. 194: 89–92.
See also
References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Evans, Brad; Pi O (2000). "Pi O interviewed by Brad Evans". Cordite Magazine. Archived from the original on 20 June 2001. Retrieved 22 October 2007.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Koval, Ramona; Pi O (2008). "Poetic anarchy: Pi O". Radio National. Archived from the original on 5 September 2008. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Book about rugby league takes out richest prize in Queensland Literary Awards". www.abc.net.au. 4 September 2020. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Melbourne Prize for Literature finalists announced". Books+Publishing. 15 September 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Pi-O wins 2024 Patrick White Literary Award". Books+Publishing. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
External links
- The Poetry of Π Ο
- Pi O - An appreciation by Billy Marshall Stoneking
- visual poetry
- Visual Poetry by PiO
- 925 magazine
- Pi O Launches Oink, Oink, Oink by Eric Dando
- The rime of the anarchist wog
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