Pardalote author Shortlisted for the University of Tasmania Prize [28.01.2011]
Postcards From The Asylum by Karen Knight (Pardalote Press) is one of the three shortlisted works for the $5,000 University of Tasmania Prize as part of the suite of Tasmania Book Prizes (Best book by a Tasmanian Publisher).
About the book
Karen Knight’s poetry is deceptive, disarming: from somewhere behind the muted music of a line, the delicate web of imagery, when you least expect it, comes the blare of a wake-up call. This is dark material, held up to the light and examined with skill, sensitivity and a life-affirming humour. – Dilys Rose, Scotland
Postcards from the Asylum, Karen Knight’s fifth poetry collection, won the Arts ACT 2007 Alec Bolton Award for an unpublished manuscript. These poems arise from her experiences as an inmate at the Royal Derwent Psychiatric Hospital in 1969.
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