1. Forthcoming Books

2. Bibliography

3. External sources

4. References

M. T. C. Cronin (born 1963) is a contemporary Australian poet.

MTC Cronin has published twenty books (poetry, prose poems and essays) including a collection jointly written with the Australian poet, Peter Boyle. Her work has won and been shortlisted for many major literary awards, both internationally and in her native Australia, including the Gwen Harwood Memorial Poetry Prize, the Stand International Poetry Prize, the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize, the Newcastle Poetry Prize, the Artsrush Poetry Prize and the James Joyce Foundation’s Suspended Sentence Award. She has been twice nominated for one of North America’s most prestigious literary awards, the Pushcart Prize, and in Australia her books have received numerous accolades (see publication list below). Several of her books have appeared in translation: The Ridiculous Shape of Longing (Macedonian) and Talking to Neruda’s Questions, which has been translated into Spanish, Italian and Swedish. Other individual translations of her work have been into Bengali, Mandarin, French, Italian, Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Russian, Swedish, Dutch, Catalan, Spanish, Austrian and German. Her book of prose poems, God is Waiting in the World’s Yard (Puncher & Wattmann, Sydney), is forthcoming in 2019.

Cronin has studied arts (double major in political science), law (first class honours), literature (masters degree) and creative writing (masters degree). After being employed for most of the decade of the eighties in the hospitality and cleaning industries and for the decade of the nineties in law, she has in recent years taught literature and creative writing and hosted workshops at primary and secondary schools, universities and writers’ centres. Her poetry has been set in texts in numerous schools and at tertiary level in both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Departments of Law, English and Writing, for example at UNSW, the University of Sydney, the University of Kansas, the University of Nebraska, the University of Melbourne, the University of Newcastle and the University of Western Australia. Cronin currently lives and farms with her partner and three daughters.

Forthcoming Books

• God is Waiting in the World’s Yard (Puncher & Wattmann, Sydney, Australia, 2019)

Bibliography

• Zoetrope: we see us moving (Five Islands, Wollongong, Australia, 1995) {{ISBN|1-875604-34-0}}
• the world beyond the fig (Five Islands, Wollongong, Australia, 1998, shortlisted CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 1999) {{ISBN|0864186118}}
• Everything Holy (Balcones International Press, Temple, USA, 1998, shortlisted Jessie Litchfield Award for Literature 1997; shortlisted Age Book of the Year 1999; shortlisted Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry, Qld Premier’s Literary Awards 1999; shortlisted Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2000; commended Wesley Michel Wright Prize for Poetry 1999) {{ISBN|1-891811-04-5}} ([https://web.archive.org/web/20061218192133/http://home.vicnet.net.au/~abr/Aug99/str.html review])
• Mischief-Birds (Vagabond Press, Sydney, Australia, 1999)
• Bestseller (Vagabond Press, Sydney, Australia, 2001, shortlisted John Bray Poetry Award, South Australian Festival Awards for Literature 2002; shortlisted Age Book of the Year 2002) {{ISBN|0-9578378-2-8}}
• Talking to Neruda's Questions (Vagabond Press, Sydney, Australia, 2001, {{ISBN|0-9578378-2-8}} online at www.shearsman.com
• My Lover's Back (UQP, St Lucia, Australia, 2002, shortlisted John Bray Poetry Award, South Australian Festival Awards for Literature 2004) {{ISBN|0-7022-3284-X}}
• The Confetti Stone and other poems (Picaro Press, Warner’s Bay, Australia, 2002) ISSN 1444-8424
• beautiful, unfinished ~ PARABLE/SONG/CANTO/POEM (Salt, Cambridge, UK, 2003, Book of the Month, Shearsman Books, UK, August 2003; shortlisted Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2004) {{ISBN|1-876857-29-3}}
• 1-100 (Shearsman, Exeter, UK, 2004, shortlisted Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2005; shortlisted Age Book of the Year 2005; winner CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2005; winner Award for Innovation in Writing, South Australian Festival Awards for Literature 2006 ) {{ISBN|0-907562-47-7}} excerpts 1-13, 88-100
• The Flower, the Thing (UQP, St Lucia, Australia, 2006, shortlisted WARM Literary Awards Book of the Year 2007) {{ISBN|0-7022-3556-3}}
• Our Life is a Box. / Prayers Without a God (Soi 3, Chiang Mai/Brisbane, Australia/Thailand, 2007){{ISBN|978-0-9579411-4-4}}
• Notebook of Signs (& 3 Other Small Books) (Shearsman, Exeter, UK, 2007) {{ISBN|978-1-905700-11-0}}
• How Does a Man Who is Dead Reinvent His Body? (The Belated Love Poems of Thean Morris Caelli) (co-written with Peter Boyle, Shearsman Books, Exeter, UK, 2008) {{ISBN|978-1-84861-016-3}}
• Irrigations (of the Human Heart) ~ Fictional Essays on the Poetics of Living, Art & Love (Ravenna Press, Edmonds, USA, 200) {{ISBN|978-0-9822115-3-3}}
• Squeezing Desire Through a Sieve ~ micro-essays on judgement & justice (Puncher & Wattmann, Sydney, Australia, 2009, shortlisted Award for Innovation in Writing, South Australian Festival Awards for Literature 2010) {{ISBN|978-1-921450-12-9}}
• The World Last Night [metaphors for death] (UQP, St Lucia, Australia, 2012, highly commended, Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2013) {{ISBN|978-0-7022-4951-8}}
• in possession of loss (Shearsman, Exeter, UK, 2014) {{ISBN|978-1-84861-382-9}}
• The Law of Poetry (Puncher & Wattmann, Sydney, Australia, 2015) {{ISBN|978-1-9221866-1-4}}
• Causal ~ speaking the future (Spuyten Duyvil, New York, USA, 2018) {{ISBN|978-1-947980-51-8}}

• Respondiendo a las Preguntas de Neruda in Spanish and English, trans. Juan Garrido Salgado (Safo, Santiago, Chile, 2004) {{ISBN|956-7661-04-9}}
• Controcanto al Libro Delle Domande di Neruda in Italian and English, trans. Hans Kitzmuller (Braitan, Brazzano, Italy, 2005) {{ISBN|88-86950-11-X}}
• The Ridiculous Shape of Longing: New and Selected Poems in English and Macedonian, trans. Igor Isakovski (Blesok, Skopje, Macedonia, 2005) {{ISBN|9989-928-51-7}}

External sources

• 4 poems at softblow.org
• [https://p76issue6.wordpress.com/contents/ 4 poems] at P76 Magazine Issue 6
• MTC Cronin at Poetry International Web
• 2 Poems
• 8 poems at Jack Magazine
• Review by John Bennett
• Launch speech by Peter Boyle for The Law of Poetry in Rochford Street Review
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20150524114942/http://www.regimebooks.com.au/mtc-cronin-on-the-australia-poetry-podcast/] Interview with MTC Cronin on Regime Books' Australian Poetry Podcast

References

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20061004081035/http://www.thylazine.org/directory/directc/ MTC Cronin] at Thylazine Artists and Writers Directory

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