Karen Knight
Titles
- Postcards from the Asylum
- Under the one granite roof: poems for Walt Whitman
- Interior Despots: Running the Border
Biography
Karen Knight continues to dazzle audiences with her original and quirky poems, which she performs at festivals, in pubs, on the buses, and on radio. Her poetry has been widely published in Australian and international anthologies, newspapers and literary journals, including Blue Dog, Island and Best Australian Poems 2005 edited by Les Murray.
As well as the Alec Bolton Award, Knight's awards include three writer's development grants from Arts Tasmania, and the Dorothy Hewett Flagship Fellowship Award for Poetry, awarded annually to a highly original poet by the Varuna Writer's Centre and the Eleanor Dark Foundation. As part of her prize Karen travelled to Scotland in 2007 to take up a three-week residency: two weeks in Edinburgh and then a week in the Hebrides with the UNESCO City of Literary Exchange Program.
Postcards from the Asylum is her fifth collection. Previous titles are: Under the one granite roof - poems for Walt Whitman (Pardalote Press, 2004); the chapbooks Singing in the Grain (Walleah Press, 2001), My Mother has Become (Picaro Press, 2003) and Doctor Says (Picaro Press, 2006). With Sue Moss, she is co-editor of Interior Despots - Running the Border, an anthology of women poets (Pardalote Press, 2001).