Vampire Short Stories (various authors - iBook supplied on TCOLE). ▫ Dracula - Bram Stoker (ebook - free download from ▫ Australian Short Stories (various authors - iBook supplied on TCOLE). ▫ Maestro - Peter Goldsworthy (Harper Collins e-book 2010) - available from iTunes. Peter Goldsworthy grew up in various Australian country towns, finishing his schooling in Darwin. After graduating in medicine from the. In 2003, his first novel, Maestro, was voted by members of the Australian Society of Authors as one of the Top 40 Australian books of all time. Five of his novels are currently being.

Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Life [ ] Goldsworthy was born in, and grew up in various Australian country towns, finishing his schooling in in the. He graduated in medicine from the in 1974, and worked in alcohol and drug rehabilitation for several years, but, with his poetry being published in and the Friendly Street Poetry Reader, he started dividing his working time equally between general practice and writing. Goldsworthy's eldest daughter is a successful concert and also an accomplished writer. They worked together on a stage adaptation of Goldsworthy's novel.

Writing career [ ] Goldsworthy's novels have sold over 400,000 copies in Australia alone, and, with his poetry and short stories, have been translated into many European and Asian languages. He has won major literary prizes across most genres: for poetry, the short story, the novel, plays and opera. Novels [ ] His first novel Maestro was reissued as part of the Australian Classics series, and was voted one of the Top 40 Australian books of all time by members of the Australian Society of Authors. Poetry and short stories [ ] His New Selected Poems were published in Australia and the UK in 2001; and his Collected Stories appeared in Australia in 2004. The Poetry Archive describes his poetry as follows: There's a pressing sense of mortality in his work and a desire to ask the big questions, even as he satirises them. Drawn to the discipline of science, Goldsworthy's poems are full of the language of the laboratory —matter, evidence, elements, chemicals— the stuff we are made of, but at the same time frustrated by these limitations into asking what else we might be. He's interested in 'The Dark Side of the Head', the things we can only know in flashes, like glimpsing a skink, but he also retains a rationalist's scepticism of the ecstatic – that 'thoughtlessly exquisite' evening sky in 'Sunset' won't fool him into rapture.

The Australian expatriate writer comments that Goldsworthy's poetry is often seen as a sideline, but argues that it is 'at the centre of his achievement'. James writes: His precise wit operates on every level, from the sonic (a concealed dove really does say hidden here, hidden here) to the conceptual (the human body really is packed tight like an attempt on the record of filling a Mini). The general impression is of a fastidious insistence that the particular comes first, and any general comment that follows had better be particular too. Libretti [ ] Goldsworthy also writes opera libretti. He wrote the libretto for the operas, and, the latter winning Mills and Goldsworthy the 2002 for and. The premiere at the on 19 August 2006 was conducted by the composer and attended by the librettist. Film writing [ ] Goldsworthy wrote or co-wrote the script to several films: • Ebbtide (1994) • (1999) Adaptations of his works [ ] His novels Wish, Honk If You Are Jesus, and Three Dog Night have been adapted for the stage.

Honk, was premiered by the State Theatre of South Australia in its 2006 season. It won the 2006 Ruby Award for Best New Work, and the 2006 Oscart Award for Best Play. In 2009 Honk If You Are Jesus was adapted as a radio play by for ABC and was broadcast by the. The novella 'Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam' has also been adapted as a radio-play by Mike Ladd for the ABC. Goldsworthy's poetry has been set to music by leading Australian composers including,, and.

In 2008 Ashlee Page was working on the short film The Kiss adapted from the short story of the same name from the collection The List of All Answers. Awards and nominations [ ] • 1979: Western Australian Sesquicentenary Literary Prize for the short-story Memoirs of a small 'm' marxist. This list is; you can help. The Poetry Archive.

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Against the backdrop of Darwin, that small, tropical hothouse of a port, half-outback, half-oriental, lying at the tip of northern Australia, a young and newly arrived southerner encounters the 'maestro', a Viennese refugee with a shadowed past. The occasion is a piano lesson, the first of many. 'I enjoyed Maestro enormously.

Besides its thoughtfulness and bright sensuality, it has a playful quality, a love of jest, which appealed to me very much.' Helen Garner, SYDNEY REVIEW On release, MAEStRO was hailed 'a splendid achievement, a wise, deeply felt novel that continues to haunt well after one has finished it. It is distinguished by subtlety, by economy and by a quality often lacking in even the best of recent novels - an unerring quality of tone' by Andrew Riemer in the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. It has sold over 200,000 copies in Australia and was voted by members of the Australian Society of Authors as one of the top 40 Australian Books of All time.

'the necessary elusiveness of perfection, the unplumbed ocean beneath articulateness, the ambivalence of beauty - these are the revolving concerns of Peter Goldsworthy, and handled not just with irony, but with an effervescent, compassionate wit. He can't help being funny, but he's wise too.' - AUStRALIAN BOOK REVIEW. • • • • • • • Delivery options: Shipping to an Australian address Order as many items as you want for one low delivery fee per order to an address in Australia. Sometimes not all items in your order are available for shipment at the same time, and items may be delivered separately.

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