Diane Fahey Explained

Diane Fahey
Birth Name:	Diane Mary Brotheridge
Birth Date:	2 January 1945
Birth Place:	Melbourne, Australia
Occupation:	Poet
Language:	English
Nationality:	Australian

Diane Mary Fahey (born 2 January 1945) is an Australian poet. She was born Diane Mary Brotheridge in Melbourne, Australia and lives in the Barwon Heads area, near Geelong.^[1]

A winner of the 1985 Mattara Poetry Prize, the 1987 Wesley Michel Wright Prize and many other awards, Fahey has been widely published in Australian and internationally and received writing grants from the Australia Council, Arts Victoria and Arts South Australia.^[2] She has been writer in residence at Ormond College, University of Melbourne and the University of Adelaide.

Her main creative concerns are nature writing, Greek myths, visual art, fairy tales and literary mystery novels. Her most recent collection Sea Wall and River Light (Five Islands Press) is a series of sonnets about Barwon Heads, tracing the year at that place.

Fahey holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Literature and a PhD in Creative Writing for her study, 'Places and Spaces of the Writing Life'.

Publications

Poetry collections

• Voices from the Honeycomb (1986)^[3]
• Metamorphoses (1988)^[4]
• Turning the Hourglass (1990)^[5]
• Mayflies in Amber (1994)^[6]
• The Body in Time (1995)^[7]
• Listening to a Far Sea (1998)^[8]
• The Sixth Swan (2001)^[9]
• Sea Wall and River Light (2006)^[10]
• Winter Solstice and Other Poems (2008)^[11]
• The Wing Collection : New and Selected Poems (2011)^[12]
• The Stone Garden : Poems from Clare (2013)^[13]
• A House by the River (2016)^[14]
• November Journal (2017)^[15]
• Glass Flowers (2021)^[16]
• The Light Cafe (2023)^[17]

Novella

• The Mystery of Rosa Morland (2008)^[18]

External links

• Diane Fahey at friendlystreetpoets.org.au

Notes and References

1. Web site: Austlit — Diane Fahey . Austlit. 28 March 2024.
2. Web site: Diane Fahey . 2023-10-21 . AustLit: Discover Australian Stories . The University of Queensland.
3. Web site: Voices from the Honeycomb . National Library of Australia. 28 March 2024.
4. Web site: Metamorphoses . National Library of Australia. 28 March 2024.
5. Web site: Turning the Hourglass . National Library of Australia. 28 March 2024.
6. Web site: Mayflies in Amber . National Library of Australia. 28 March 2024.
7. Web site: The Body in Time . National Library of Australia. 28 March 2024.
8. Web site: Austlit — Listening to a Far Sea . Austlit. 28 March 2024.
9. Web site: The Sixth Swan . National Library of Australia. 28 March 2024.
10. Web site: Sea Wall and River Light . National Library of Australia. 28 March 2024.
11. Web site: Winter Solstice and Other Poems . National Library of Australia. 28 March 2024.
12. Web site: The Wing Collection : New and Selected Poems . National Library of Australia. 28 March 2024.
13. Web site: The Stone Garden : Poems from Clare . National Library of Australia. 28 March 2024.
14. Web site: Austlit — A House by the River . Austlit. 28 March 2024.
15. Web site: November Journal . National Library of Australia. 28 March 2024.
16. Web site: Glass Flowers . National Library of Australia. 28 March 2024.
17. Web site: The Light Cafe . National Library of Australia. 28 March 2024.
18. Web site: The Mystery of Rosa Morland . National Library of Australia. 28 March 2024.