PROFILE: Glen Phillips

Born in Western Australia in 1936, in the remote gold-mining town of Southern Cross, Glen Phillips was brought up mainly in outback wheatbelt areas where he developed not only a strong identification with the Australian landscape but an early love of Australian literature.

Glen’s poetry has won prizes and appeared in more than 50 American, British, Italian, Thai, Singaporean, Chinese, Korean, Indian and Australian journals and/or anthologies. His poetry collections include Intersections, (Perth, 1972), Umbria-Australia, Green and Gold, (Perugia, Italy 1986, with Walter Cerquetti), Poetry in Motion (Perth, 1988 with three other WA poets who had formed in 1985 the well-known "Poetry in Motion" performance group), Sacrificing the Leaves (Bangkok, 1988), Lovesongs, Lovescenes (Perth, 1991), Spring Burning (Perth, 1999) and Singing Granites (Salcombe, UK, 2008, with Anne Born). Copies of Spring Burning, Lovesongs, Lovescenes and Singing Granites are available from the author ($20, $15 and $30 respectively) by email: gphillips@gengo.com.au and g.phillips@ecu.edu.au.

 

His poetry has been featured on national radio and television. Glen’s short stories also have been published in Australia and overseas. He is working on several novels and other projects. He has joint-edited many anthologies of poetry, prose and essays of Western Australian authors and judged many literary competitions for writers’ organizations.

Glen Phillips is a West Australian writer and is an adjunct Associate Professor of English at Edith Cowan University, Perth and Director of the University’s International Centre for Landscape and Language.