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Bruce Beaver

ブルース・ビーバー

Burūsu Bībā

別名: Bruce Victor Beaver

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1928-02-14 (Manly, New South Wales)
死没
2004-02-17 76歳
国籍
Australian
言語
English
居住地歴
Manly, New South Wales → New Zealand (1958-1962) → Norfolk Island (1958-1962)

経歴

職業
poet, novelist, cow farmer, radio worker, wages clerk, surveyor's labourer, fruit-picker, proof-reader, journalist
活動期間
1961年〜2004年
影響を与えた人物
Dorothy Porter

学歴

Manly Public School
国: Australia
Sydney Boys' High School
国: Australia

受賞歴

Grace Leven Prize for Poetry
1970
対象作品: Letters to Live Poets
部門: Poetry
結果: 受賞
Patrick White Award
1982
結果: 受賞
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
1990
部門: Special Award
結果: 受賞
Member of the Order of Australia
1991
結果: 受賞
C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry
1995
対象作品: Anima and Other Poems
部門: Poetry
結果: 受賞
Wesley Michel Wright Prize
1995
部門: Poetry
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Letters to Live Poets

1969年 Poetry

A collection of poems in the form of letters to living poets.

WarLife

Anima and Other Poems

1994年 Poetry

Late poetry collection.

SpiritNature

全著作

  • Under the Bridge (1961)
  • Seawall and Shoreline (1964)
  • Open at Random (1967)
  • Letters to Live Poets (1969)
  • Lauds and plaints: poems (1968-1972) (1974)
  • Odes and Days (1975)
  • Death's Directives (1978)
  • Headlands: Prose sketches (1986)
  • Charmed Lives (1988)
  • New and Selected Poems 1960-1990 (1991)
  • Anima and Other Poems (1994)
  • Poets and others (1999)
  • The Long Game and Other Poems (2005)

作風・主題

文体
pungentdiscursiveferaldisturbingwisefunny
頻出モチーフ
Atomic bombBipolar disorderStruggles of life

健康

  • bipolar disorder
    生涯
    Continued writing until near death despite it.

評価・遺産

One of Australia's greatest and most magical poets.

大衆文化への影響

  • Named as favorite by Dorothy Porter.

引用

  • Bruce Beaver is one of Australia's greatest and most magical poets. I have been carrying his book Charmed Lives (UQP) around in my bag like an amulet. His poetry is pungent, discursive, feral, disturbing, wise and very funny.
    出典: Dorothy Porter (2004年)

豆知識

  • Wrote his first poem in response to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.