Audrey Longbottom Explained

Audrey Clarice Longbottom (c.1922 – 1986) was an Australian poet.^[1]

Life

Longbottom was born in Coramba, New South Wales,^[1] around 1922. After leaving school aged fourteen,^[2] she later attended the University of Wollongong as a mature student. She then began to write poetry and prose.^[1]

Longbottom won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1980, and the Grenfell Henry Lawson Prize in 1981.^[1] She died on 21 April 1986 at Cremorne, New South Wales.^[2]

Works

• Relatives and reliques. Sydney: Wentworth Books, 1979.
• (with Susan McGowan and Kathryn Purnell) Trillium : a selection of poetry. Newtown, Vic.: Neptune Press, 1983.
• The solitary islands. Sydney: Ollif Pub. Co., 1985.

Notes and References

1. Book: William H. Wilde. Joy Hooton. Barry Andrews. The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature. 1994. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-553381-1. 477.
2. https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A2932 Audrey Longbottom