Paul Hetherington

Quick Facts

Full Name	Paul Hetherington
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Mar 6, 1958(1958-03-06)
Age	66
Birthplace	Rose Park
Country	Australia
Birth City	South Australia
Horoscope	Pisces

Paul Hetherington Biography

Paul Hetherington is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on March 6, 1958 in Rose Park, South Australia, Australia.

Paul Hetherington (born 6 March 1958) is an award-winning Australian poet and academic, who also worked for 19 years at the National Library of Australia. He is Professor of Writing at the University of Canberra where he heads the university’s International Poetry Studies Institute (IPSI) which he co- founded. He is an editor of the international journal Axon: Creative Explorations and co-founder of the International Prose Poetry Project.

After achieving journal and magazine publication of his poems throughout the 1980s, the National Library of Australia published Hetherington’s poetry chapbook, Mapping Wildwood Road in 1990 and Fremantle Arts Centre Press published Acts Themselves Trivial, his first full-length poetry collection in

1991. Molonglo Press in the ACT published his next four poetry books, including Shadow Swimmer, which won the 1996 ACT Book of the Year Award. Pandanus Books at the ANU then released his verse novel Blood and Old Belief in 2003. It Feels Like Disbelief was published in 2007 by Salt Publishing (Cambridge, UK). Three recent volumes, Six Different Windows (2013) – which won the 2014 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards (poetry) – and Burnt Umber (2016) – shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry – and Moonlight on Oleander: Prose Poems (2018) have been released by UWA Publishing. Hetherington has said that Burnt Umber marked something of a new departure for him ‘in a couple of ways … One of them is the presence of prose poetry in the collection … The other thing that’s different is the ekphrastic poetry in the book.’ Moonlight on Oleander extends Hetherington’s interest in the prose poem form and is one of relatively few books consisting solely of prose poetry to have been published in Australia in the last decade. In 2002 Hetherington was awarded a Chief Minister’s ACT Creative Arts Fellowship and in 2012 was awarded one of two places on the Australian Poetry Tour to Ireland, accompanied by Melbourne poet Petra White. In 2014 he was awarded an Australia Council for the Arts Literature Section Residency in the BR Whiting Studio in Rome for a practice-led research project entitled ‘Roman Paintings’ and while in Rome read at the Keats-Shelley House. In 2017 he won the Individual Research Excellence Award, Humanities and Creative Arts at the University of Canberra.

Paul Hetherington Net Worth

Paul Hetherington is one of the richest Poet from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Paul Hetherington 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Paul Hetherington’s parents are Robert Hetherington (1923–2015) and Penelope Hetherington (née Loveday) (1928–). He grew up in Adelaide with his twin brother Mark and his younger sister Naomi (1961–) until his family moved to Perth in 1966 when his father accepted a job in the fledgling Politics Department of the University of Western Australia. His father later became a Western Australian member of parliament. His mother was an academic historian with particular interests in African History and Women’s History, who worked at the University of Western Australia.

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He has played a significant role in the ACT cultural community, serving on numerous boards and helping to found the ACT Writers Centre in the mid-1990s and chairing its inaugural committee of management. He also chaired the ACT Cultural Council (2005–13) and the ACT Public Art Panel (2006–11). He is a former Deputy Chair of the ACT’s Word Festival. He was a board member for the arts magazine Muse. Nationally he was a member of the Board of Australian Book Review (2004–12).

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In reviewing Hetherington’s Acts Themselves Trivial (1991), Simon Patton writes that ‘the insight is certainly compelling. The desire to remember is established in these poems as a vital aspect of our humanity’. Shirley Walker writes of Shadow Swimmer (1995) that ‘This is poetry of glowing sensuality, of urgent narrative pace, of tact in its exploration of intimate experience.’ Glenda Guest remarks of the verse novel, Blood and Old Belief (2003) that ‘Hetherington’s writing is immaculate; he finds the hidden nuances at the core of each person’, while Paul Kane characterises Hetherington’s style in It Feels Like Disbelief (2007) as ‘similarly lucid in voice, diction and image. This felicitous combination gives his poems the feel of poise, intelligence, grace and finish.’ Peter Pierce comments that Six Different Windows (2013) is ‘one the finest collections of poetry this year’ and Mags Webster writes that Burnt Umber (2016) ‘is a fine example of language – and poetry – “doing itself right”‘: ‘If paintings can be “read” like text, then Hetherington’s fusion of word and image bring to mind Howard Nemerov’s suggestion that “both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language”. Hetherington’s poems are tender, sometimes playful, sometimes self- deprecating, and in the case of ‘Painting 22: Portrait of a Count’, which appears in tribute to the poet’s father, achingly poignant’.