Lisa Gorton
Author

Poems

DREAMS AND ARTEFACTS english

A DESCRIPTION OF THE STORM GLASS AND BRIEF GUIDE TO ITS USE IN FORECASTING WEATHER english

THE HOTEL HYPERION english

ROOM AND BELL english

A CRYSTAL PALACE GUIDE english

THE TRIUMPHS OF CAESAR english

Lisa Gorton
Author

About

* 04.12.1972
lives in: Melbourne, Australia

Lisa is a poet, essayist and fiction writer. She studied literature at the Universities of Melbourne and Oxford. After winning the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize she travelled in Ireland for six months and went to study at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. There, she completed a Masters in Renaissance Literature and Doctorate on John Donne, and received the John Donne Society Award for Distinguished Publication in Donne studies. During her studies, Lisa worked as a visiting tutor at Rhodes University, South Africa. Returning to Australia, Lisa’s first poetry collection Press Release (2007) was shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Poetry Prize and Melbourne Prize Best Writing Award, and received the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry. In 2008 she published a children’s novel, Cloudland. Her second poetry collection Hotel Hyperion (2013) was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards and Western Australian Premier’s Prize for Poetry and received the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal. Lisa’s novel The Life of Houses is forthcoming from Giramondo in April 2015.