| | 24 (83) | 2 | 464,782 |  (3.83) | 1 | 0 | Jennifer Compton was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1949. In the early '70s she emigrated to Sydney, Australia with her husband Matthew O'Sullivan. After attending the NIDA Playwrights Studio, her play No Man's Land (later Crossfire) jointly won the Newcastle Playwriting Competition (with John Romeril's A Floating World) in 1974. It was premiered at the Nimrod Theatre in Sydney in 1975 and published by Currency Press in 1976. Her stage play The Big Picture was premiered at the Griffin Theatre in Sydney in 1997 and was published by Currency Press in 1999. In recent years she has mostly written short fiction and poetry. A book of poems, Parker & Quink, was published in 2004, and another, Barefoot, was published in 2010. Barefoot was short listed for the John Bray Poetry Award at the Adelaide Festival in 2012. This City was published in July 2011 and won the Kathleen Grattan Award in New Zealand. In 2015 her title, Mr Clean and the Junkie, made the New Zealand Best Sellers List. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Aroha: Poems … (more) |
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Jennifer Compton has 1 past event. (show) Jennifer Compton Jennifer Compton reads from Barefoot. Open mic and guest poet: Jennifer Compton, a poet and playwright who sometimes writes prose. She was born in Wellington in 1949 but has spent many years living in Wingello, a small town in Australia. She spent six months in residence at the Whiting Library Studio in Rome in 2006. During this time she was a guest at the Sarajevo Poetry Festival. Her next book of poetry is called 'Barefoot'.
Jennifer is the current resident of Wellington's Randell Cottage. (NZPS)… (more) Event location: The Greta Fernie Room, Leuven Belgian Beer Cafe, 135 Featherston St, Wellington, New Zealand
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