Jordie Albiston (born 1961) is a contemporary Australian poet and academic. 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... The poor poet A poet is a person who writes poetry. ... Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ...

Jordie Albiston, grew up in Melbourne, studied flute at Victoria College of the Arts before turning to writing. Her first collection Nervous Arcs won the Mary Gilmore Award. Since then she has published two 'documentary' collections about the first women in the Botany Bay settlement, and Jean Lee the last woman executed in Australia. The first work evolving out of a Ph D she undertook in literature. In August 2006 an Opera of The Hanging of Jean Lee, composed by Andrée Greenwell, was performed at the Sydney Opera House. Melbournes CBD has grown to straddle the Yarra River in three major precincts. ... The Mary Gilmore Prize for the best first book of poetry is given to a first book of poetry from the previous two years; prior to 1998 it was awarded annually. ... For other Botany Bays see Botany Bay (disambiguation) Bicentennial Monument at Botany Bay Botany Bay is a bay in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, a few kilometers south of the central business district. ... The Sydney Opera House is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ...

She is married to poet Ian McBryde. Ian McBryde is an Australian poet. ...

Bibliography

• Nervous Arcs (Spinifex, 1995)
• Botany Bay Document (North Fitzroy: Black Pepper, 1996)
• The Hanging of Jean Lee (North Fitzroy: Black Pepper, 1998)
• The Fall (White Crane, 2003) reviewed

but this was not a great life as she had a mean sister called Kate and she is now teaching politic and causeing bad things to happen at a college is the south west, what will we do no one knows help us all ( this is by a follower of the big ham wearing socity) VOTE TORY

External links

• Six Villain-elles at softblow.com
• Soul vs Body a poem
• Things to do (Heart)

• Interview by Kate Middleton
• Short interview by Anne Tran