Record ID:
35508363 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 96050603
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1961
  • Melbourne, Victoria
Death:
  • 2022
Fields of activity:
  • Poetry
Occupations:
  • poets
Used for:
  • Albiston, Jordie, 1961-2022
Notes:
  • Jordie Albiston was born in 1961 and grew up in Melbourne. Her first collection of poems, 'Nervous Arcs', won the Mary Gilmore Award and was short listed for the NSW Premier's Prize. Her work appears in numerous anthologies and her poetry has been set to music by a number of different composers. In 2006 Jordie Albiston's biographical verse The Hanging of Jean Lee was used as the text for an opera first staged at the Sydney Opera House. The libretto was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Prize for Best Music-Theatre Script.
  • Arts Hub website, viewed 3 March 2022 (Jordie Albiston, died Tuesday 1 March 2022) https://www.artshub.com.au/news/news/vale-jordie-albiston-2534457
  • Nervous arcs. The body in time, 1995 title page (Jordie Albiston) page 3 (born in and lives in Melbourne) Aus CIP (Albiston, Jordie, 1961-)
  • Austlit, viewed 20 June 2014 heading (a.k.a Jordi Albiston, born: 1961 Melbourne, Victoria, gender: female) biography (Jordie Albiston is an award winning Melbourne-based poet.
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)53602
  • 000000511268
  • abv13815784
  • (VSL)1597250
Cataloguing source:
  • AuCNLKIN eng rda DLC ANL
Authentication code:
  • anuc