Mark O’Connor
Publications list
Updated: October 2006
1. Published Books 1
1.1 Co-authored Books 1
2. Radio, Television and Audio-Visuals 2
2.1 Programs on ABC Radio 2
2.1 Recordings 2
3. Short Stories 3
3.1 Short Stories in Magazines 3
3.2 Short Stories in Books 3
4. Articles and Chapters 3
4.1 Summary 3
4.2 Articles and Chapters 3
4.3 Reviews 4
5. Articles About Mark O'Connor 5
5.1 Magazine Articles 5
5.2 Interview Articles 5
5.3 Major Press Articles 5
6. Poetry Published in Magazines and General Anthologies 6
6.1 Poems in Anthologies - Summary 6
6.2 Poems in Anthologies – Recent Examples 7
6.3 Poems In Poetry Magazines 7
7. Poems Published in International Publications 8
7.1 Summary of International Publications 8
7.2 Samples of International Publications 8
7.3 Short Stories 9
7.4 Articles Published Overseas 9
7.5 Reviews and Interviews 9
7.6 Books Available Internationally 9
7.7 Publications in Non-English-Speaking Countries 10
7.8 Activities in Non-English-Speaking Countries 10
7.9 Translations Into Other Languages 10
8. Plays, Ballet, Dance, and Exhibitions 11
8.1 Plays 11
8.2 Ballet and Dance 11
9. Festivals, Conferences and Public Talks 12
9.1 Recent Conference Papers 13
10. Positions Held 13
10.1 Summary of Australian Literary Experience 13
11. Courses Taught 14
12. Poetry Readings and Performances 15
12.1 Summary of Overseas Performances 15
13. Australian and Overseas Awards and Prizes 16
13.1 Australian Awards and Prizes 16
13.2 Overseas Awards and Prizes 16
13.3 Fellowships 16
14. Writer-in-Residences and Miscellaneous 17
15. Manuscript Holdings 17
15.1 Patents 17
1. Published Books
1976 / Reef Poems, University of Queensland Press.1980 / The Eating Tree, Angus & Robertson.
1982 / Modern Australian Styles, James Cook University, being the 1981 Foundation for Australian Literary Studies annual lectures.
1983 / Words on Paper: An Introduction to Alphabetic Theory, (linguistics) JCU Manubook (Out of Print).
1983 / Fiesta of Men, Hale & Iremonger. Reprinted 1984.
1986 / Poetry in Pictures: The Great Barrier Reef, Hale & Iremonger.
1986 / Selected Poems, Hale & Iremonger. 2000 copies, sold out and replaced by Firestick Farming: Selected Poems 1972-1990
1988 / Two Centuries of Australian Poetry, Oxford University Press. Edited and introduced by Mark O'Connor. Published March, reprinted many times. Revised expanded edition of 300 pages, 1996. International edition commissioned but has not appeared.
1988 / Poetry of the Mountains, Second Back Row Press/Megalong Books. With photos by Ian Brown.
1989 / The Ship Trans Time (a book of poems coming out of a residency as the Thomas Ramsay Science and Humanities Scholar at the Museum of Victoria) published by the Museum of Victoria.
1989 / The Great Forest (poems about rainforest, with photos by Cliff and Dawn Frith), Hale & Iremonger.
1990 / Firestick Farming: New and Selected Poems 1972-90, an update of Selected Poems with 50 pages of additional poems, Hale & Iremonger. Also issued as an audio-cassette in 1992.
1990 / Nature of Australia, a selection designed for the international market, currently being edited by Professor Anna Rutherford for Dangaroo Press (Europe).
1.1 Co-authored Books
1977 / Seven Poets (the Shell- Artlook Prize winner).1977 / Best Poems of the Year (USA).
1984 / A Package of Poems UK, National School Competition.
1983 / Sotheby's International Arvon Competition Anthology.
1983 / A Selection of the Prize-Winners From the Scottish National Open Poetry Competition –1972-1986.
1983 / Consolidation: The Second Paperback Poets Anthology.
1981- 1991 / Poems in all of the Mattara Annual Anthologies.
2. Radio, Television and Audio-Visuals
1985 / ABC TV documentary on the Barrier Reef poems Voyage on my Dreams in the series A Big Country (first broadcast 6.8.85).1987 / Poem North Head Quarantine Station was used in New South Wales National Parks video on The Quarantine Station.
1989 / Poet of the North, half- hour documentary, Channel 9.
1989 / minute ABC Encounter program.
1989 / 30- minute video Naming the Parts of Australia: A Conversation Between Manning Clark and Mark O'Connor produced by Image Oz.
1990 / Was the guest on SBS TV's Face the Press Program (September 1990) and on Phillip Adams's one- hour radio interview program (July 1990).
1989 / Debated with Philip Toyne on the ABC TV's The 7.30 Report.
1994 / Was the guest on ABC TV's The Hot Seat (March 1994).
1990 / 30- minute Audio- visual Poetry of the North with triple slide dissolves by John Kirk, presented at the Scott Theatre, Adelaide (29.3.90), and at South Australian English Teachers annual conference.
1991 / Video Poetry to Drama shot by Jean- Pierre Voos, based on the theatre production Threads from the Works of Mark O'Connor, JCU Theatre (October 1991).
1992 / tape, as part of the Great Barrier Reef Aquarium Display, Townsville (from August 1992).
2.1 Programs on ABC Radio
1983 / Some Poems of Mark O'Connor: The Greek Islands, a program in The Poet's Tongue series on ABC Radio (June 1983).1983 / The Words to Say It half- hour documentary and interview on the ideas behind the poems, produced by Florence Spurling.
1984 / Radio essay David Williamson and the Australian Sexual Problem occupied the entire Radio Helicon program (26.3.84).
1984 / A segment on the Italian poems broadcast on Radio Helicon (28.5.84).
1984 / A series of seven talks titled Powers of Languagefor ABC Radio's Science Show (1984 and 1985).
1985 / Radio program Poems of Mark O'Connor: The Barrier Reef in The Poet's Tongue.
1986 / Long interview broadcast as The Reef God the opening program in the Insight series on ABC radio (5.2.86).
2.1 Recordings
1985 / A TV documentary on Queensland poems titled Voyage on my Dreams appeared in the ABC TV's A Big Country.1992 / Cassette Firestick Farming: Selected Poems read by the author with music and sound- effects, published by Hale and Iremonger.
3. Short Stories
3.1 Short Stories in Magazines
1983 / Short-stories The Black Cabaret, Hunting and Living, The Block, The Victim and Letter Perfect have appeared in SPAN (published in New Zealand Journal of South Pacific ACLALS).1986 / In Kunapipi (Journal of European ACLALS).
1986 / In the Air New Zealand In- Flight Magazine.
1986 / In Australian Short Stories Edited by Bruce Pascoe.
1986 / In The Monthly Review.
3.2 Short Stories in Books
1986 / The Block and Letter Perfect published in A Bundle of Yarns: Australian Short Stories, edited by Paul Cavanagh, Oxford University Press.4. Articles and Chapters
4.1 Summary
Major articles on literature, poetry, language and conservation have appeared in numerous magazines, including The London Times's Educational Supplement (27.1.77), The London Times (15.6.80--see Section 7: Overseas Publications), Kunapipi (three articles), Hemisphere, and as an editorial introduction to the special Australian edition of the British magazine Aquarius (1984).
Also, in Australia, in The Age Monthly Review, Meanjin, Wildlife Australia, Overland, Westerly, English in Australia. Chapter Aboriginal Literature Becomes a Force in Aboriginal Culture Today, Dangaroo Press (1989). Note that the anthology Two Centuries of Australian Poetry (Oxford University Press, 1988) contains an editorial preface, and 18 sub-prefaces or essays on major issues in Australian literature: e.g. The Aboriginal World, Women's Experience, Migrant Experience, The Australian Vernacular and so on.
4.2 Articles and Chapters
1972 / Chapter on Dryden, Gavin Douglas, and Virgil in the book Essays in Restoration Literature, edited by Harold Love, Methuen.1974 / Some Experiments in Breeding Aquarium Fishes with Hormones by Matthew C. Dick, with research by Dick and O'Connor, published in Tropical Fish Hobbyist (July 1974).
1975 / The Scholarly Case Against Spelling Reform, English in Australia, No. 32.
1975 / New Spelling, Hemisphere XIX.
1977 / The Great Spelling Reform 1 Rumpus in Meanjin.
1979 / The Graying of the Underground, in Overland, No. 74.
1981 / Evolutionary Myth in the New Nature Poetry in Meanjin No. 2.
1983 / Putting the Reef into Words in Reflections.
1984 / The Poetry of the Reef in Wildlife Australia.
1984 / Editorial Preface on Contemporary Australian Poetry in special Australian edition of Aquarius magazine, UK.
1984 / Improving Wordstar with Setup in Ausnews Vol. 2 No. 4 (December 1984).
1985 / Revising Umbrian Farm in Germinal No. 2.
1985 / Function Keys for Wordstar and Maintaining Address Files with Wordstar in Ausnews.
1986 / The Poetry of the North: Finding Words for the Tropics in Westerly Vol. 31, No. 1.
1986 / East Meets West Through Poetry: a Report on the 1986 Struga Festival by Mark O'Connor in The Canberra Times (October 1986).
1986 / Australian Poetry Today in Germinal, No. 3 (November 1986).
1987 / Free Verse and Traditional Verse, Dhalwa.
1987 / Chapter on Poetry and Science in If Atoms Could Talk, edited by Rosaleen Love, Greenhouse Publications.
1987 / Chapter on Dunk Island in Islands of Australia, edited Geoffrey Dutton, Macmillan.
1988 / Speeding Up Wordstar with Key- Enhancers in Ausnews (Magazine of the Australasian Microcomputer Users Society) Vol 5, No. 4 (June 1988).
1989 / Chapter The Daintree in Peter Dombrovski's book Original Earth.
1989-1991 / Numerous articles on the subject of WESP in ABR, The Author, ANU Reporter.
1989 / Don't Reap the Rainforest, in Sydney Morning Herald (9.12.89).
1990 / Beyond the Canon: Preparing an Anthology of Australian Poetry, Australian Studies.
1990 / Greening the Psyche of White Australia, in The Australian (10.2.90).
1990 / The Pyramid of Literacy, in English in Australia, No. 93 (September 1990).
1991 / Future Directions for a Sustainable Australia (Manifesto of Australians/Writers for an Ecologically Sustainable Population).
1991 / Future Directions for a Sustainable Australia, co
authored.
1992 / The Herpes Principle, in Simply Living (September 1992).
1992 / Words for a Landscape (Introduction to the 1992 Tasmanian Wilderness Calendar).
4.3 Reviews
1975 / Review of A Late Picking, plus an article Metre in A.D. Hope's A Late Picking in Within the Hill (Special Edition of Canberra Poetry (Autumn 1975).1983 / Three review articles in Kunapipi on David Malouf, Les Murray, and on The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Verse.
1983 / After the Bubble Burst
Poetry: Consolidating the 70s, review- article on Consolidations published in The Age Monthly Review, Vol. 2, No. 9 (January 1983).
1984 / Private Life of a Beachcomber, three- page review
article on Michael Noonan's A Different Drummer, published in Australian Book Review (April 1984).
1986 / East meets West Through Poetry: Report on the 1986 Struga Festival in The Canberra Times (September 1986).
1992 / Not Biting the Bullet, in Quadrant (June 1992).
5. Articles About Mark O'Connor
5.1 Magazine Articles
1977 / Biologically Accurate Poetry by Elizabeth Perkins, LiNQ magazine.1981 / The Canberra Poets: The New Australian Poetry by Kevin F. Pearson, in Poetry of the Pacific Region (CRNLE), Proceedings of the CRNLE/SPACLALS Conference.
1981 / Beyond the Obvious Landscapes, review of The Eating Tree, by Elizabeth Perkins in LiNQ, Vol 10, No. 2.
1983 / A Symposium: Mark O'Connor's The Fiesta of Men in LiNQ Magazine, Vol. 11, No. 2.
1983 / Poetry in the Tropics: An Article on O'Connor's Poetry by Dr Trevor James in London Magazine.
1983 / Ten Years of Poetry in Canberra by Alan Gould in Poetry Australia, No. 87 (April 1983).
1986 / Mark O'Connor's Australian Continent, paper by John Leonard at the 1986 ASAL Conference.
1988 / Selected Poems of Mark O'Connor, by Ornella Vannuci, Inter- Arts (Edinburgh) Vol 1, No. 5.
1988 / Poetry of Mark O'Connor, by Michael Hulse, PN Review (UK).
5.2 Interview Articles
1984 / Fiestas of Life: An Interview with Mark O'Connor by Paul Kavanagh, published in LiNQ magazine, Vol 12.1986 / Interview Nature and Poetry: with Tony Scanlon in Northern Perspective, Vol. 9, No. 2 (December 1986).
1988 / Interview Science, Myth and Nature with Greg Sessions in Habitat (April 1988).
1988 / Teaching Poetry: A Conversation Between Mark O'Connor and Richard Tipping edited by Ted Reilly, in the 1988 Victorian English Teachers Journal.
1990 / Interview Keeping Faith with the Reader with Tony Scanlon in Prairie Schooner Magazine (USA).
1990 / Interview Saving the Land With Poetry, with Paolo Totaro, Bulletin (30.1.90).
1991 / Toby Jones Interviews Mark O'Connor, in NSW National Parks Magazine (Autumn 1991).
5.3 Major Press Articles
1981 / Return of the Poet, Debra Jopson, National Times (8.3.81).1981 / The Tribulations of Surviving Poetically, by Stuart Sayers, The Age (9.5.81).
1983 / The Politics of Language, by John McLaren, Australian Book Review (6.1.83).
1983 / The Man With a Muse a Thousand Miles Long, by John Wright, The Australian (3.12.83).
1983 / Fiesta of Men, by John McLaren, Australian Book Review (June 1983).
1985 / Reef Poet Beat the Word Barrier, by Tracy Auburn, Sydney Morning Herald (10.8.85).
1986 / Well-Travelled Poet Makes Much of Verse, by Kate Collins, The Brisbane Sunday Mail (2.3.86).
1986 / Poetry in Pictures, reviewer Thalia Kingston in Victorian ATE Journal.
1987 / Romanticism and the Reef, review of Poetry in Pictures: The Great Barrier Reef, by Chris Tiffin in Australian Book Review (February 1987).
1988 / The Poetry in Our Science by Kathy Kizilos, The Age (25.6.88).
1988 / A Poet Sets About Building a Bridge Between Science and Humanities, by Peter Fuller, The Canberra Times (5.5.88).
1988 / Poet of Nature, by Kate Collins, The Sunday Mail (18.9.88).
1988 / Poetry of the Mountains, by Penelope Layland, The Canberra Times (13.11.88).
1988 / Mark O'Connor's Selected Poems by Michael Hulse, PN Review (UK,13,5).
1988 / Mark O'Connor's Selected Poems, Ornella Vanucci, Inter Arts (UK,I,5).
1988 / Science Stanzas: Muse of the Museum, by David Porter, in Good Weekend (18.3.88).
1988 / Mapping the Land Afresh With Poetry, by Penelope Layland, The Canberra Times (13.11.88).
1988 / User- friendly Verse at Home and Abroad, by Heather Cam, Sydney Morning Herald (10.12.88).
1989 / Un Poeta Che Da Voce Ai Poeti, by Brimo Ferroni, Il Messaggero (April 1989).
1989 / Verse to Inspire the Most Jaded Student, by Veronica Sen, The Canberra Times (1.7.89).
1990 / Interview with Jane Sullivan, The Age.
1991 / Keen Observer, by John Foulcher, The Canberra Times (16.2.91).
6. Poetry Published in Magazines and General Anthologies
6.1 Poems in Anthologies - Summary
Poems have appeared in numerous anthologies including: