Patrick White Award
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Edition 51 (2024) Winner
Pi O
ピー・オー
Pi O
Aliases:
П. O.
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1951-01-01 （Katerini, Greece）
- Nationality
- Australia, Greece
- Languages
- English, Greek
- Residence History
- Katerini, Greece → Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
Career
- Occupations
- poet, anarchist poet, spoken word poet, visual poet
- Active Years
- 1973-2024
- Influenced By
- Johnny Cash
- Nominations
- 2021 Melbourne Prize for Literature finalist
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Judith Wright Calanthe Prize | Heide | Poetry Collection | Arts Queensland | winner |
| 2024 | Patrick White Literary Award | — | — | — | winner |
Judith Wright Calanthe Prize
2020
Work:
Heide
Category:
Poetry Collection
Organization:
Arts Queensland
Result:
winner
Patrick White Literary Award
2024
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Heide
2019 poetry collectionAward-winning poetry collection.
working classanarchism
Big Numbers: New and Selected Poems
2008 poetry collectionNew and selected poems.
everyday speechwordplay
The Tour
2023 poetry collectionBibliography
- Fitzroy brothel: Poems
- Emotions in concrete
- street singer
- Pi O. Revisited
- Panash
- Missing Form: Concrete, visual and experimental poems
- The Fitzroy poems
- 24 hrs: The day the language stood still
- The Number Poems and Other Equations
- Big Numbers: New and Selected Poems
- Fitzroy: The Biography
- Heide
- The Tour
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- standup-type rantsconceptual page poetryconcrete poetrywordplayvitality of everyday speech
- Recurring Motifs
- non-Anglo-Celtic working class life
Legacy
Greek-Australian working class anarchist poet known for concrete, visual, and spoken word poetry capturing non-Anglo-Celtic experiences.
Trivia
- Inspired to start writing poetry in 1973 after hearing Johnny Cash recite poetry.
- Moved to Australia with family around 1955, stayed in Bonegilla migrant camp before settling in Fitzroy.