Caroline Caddy
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Caroline Mavis Caddy (born 20 January 1944){{Cite web |title=Caroline Mavis Caddy Biography - Biography of Caroline Mavis Caddy |url=https://www.poemhunter.com/caroline-mavis-caddy/biography/ |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=Poem Hunter |language=en-us}} is an Australian poet.
Biography
Born in Western Australia to an Australian mother and an American father, Caroline Mavis Caddy spent part of her childhood in the United States and Japan. She returned to Western Australia where she finished high school,Australian Poets and Their Works, by William Wilde, Oxford University Press, 1996 and later worked as a dental nurse with the Road Dental Unit. According to Queensland poet Jaya Savige "Caddy writes with equal verve about the rural southwest of WA and her time abroad, particularly in China (though also Canada and Antarctica). ...Her relaxed, often conversational tone belies her sharp eye for detail which, combined with a knack for simile and metaphor, has remained acute throughout her career."{{Citation
| last = Savige
| first = Jaya
| author-link = Jaya Savige
| title = Poets on the brink of Asia
| date = 3 October 2007
| url = http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/poets-on-the-brink-of-asia/story-e6frg8px-1111114474416
| accessdate = 5 October 2009
| work=The Australian}}
Awards
- 1990 – Western Australian Week Literary Award for poetry{{Cite web |title=Caroline Caddy |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A13101 |access-date=2025-03-20 |website=AustLit: Discover Australian Stories |publisher=The University of Queensland}}
- 1992 – National Book Council Banjo Award for Poetry
- 2008 – Wesley Michel Wright Prize{{Cite web
|title=WA Poet Caroline Caddy wins prestigious University of Melbourne poetry prize
|publisher=University of Melbourne
|date=13 November 2008
|url=http://uninews.unimelb.edu.au/view.php?articleID=5586
|accessdate=5 October 2009
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091005002437/http://uninews.unimelb.edu.au/view.php?articleID=5586
|archivedate=5 October 2009
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Bibliography
- Singing at Night (1980)
- Letters From the North (1985)
- Beach Plastic (1989)
- Conquistadors (1991)
- Antarctica (1996)
- Working Temple (1996)
- Editing the Moon (1999)
- Esperance: New and Selected Poems (2007)
- Burning Bright (2010)
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090926102301/http://www.fremantlepress.com.au/dreamgirl/filesend/4057/Caddy%20poem.pdf The Keeper and the Grove] poem from Esperance
- [http://cordite.org.au/essays/place-palimpsest-present-day/ 'Place, Palimpsest and the Present Day: Gondwana in Caroline Caddy’s Antarctica'] by Rosalind McFarlane, [http://cordite.org.au Cordite Poetry Review]
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Category:Australian people of American descent
Category:Australian women poets
Category:Writers from Western Australia
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