Judith Bishop

http://www.judithbishop.net

Judith Bishop is the author of two award-winning poetry collections, Event (Salt, 2007) and Interval (UQP, 2018), and three limited edition chapbooks, including Here Hear (Life Before Man, 2022). A third poetry collection, Circadia, is forthcoming from UQP in 2024. Judith’s awards include the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize forInterval and the Peter Porter Poetry Prize (2006, 2011). Her poems have been used as lyrics for compositions including Jane Stanley’s ‘14 Weeks’ for the Glasgow School of Art Choir (2023), ‘The Indifferent’ for the Hermes Experiment (2024), Andrew Ford’s ‘Isolation Hymn’ (2021), and Mastaneh Nazarian’s ‘Aubade’ (2019). Judith lives in Melbourne, Australia, and has studied in the United States and Britain. She currently works in Advancement at La Trobe University and is writing a book about AI and human data.

'The Blind Minotaur', a new poem by Judith Bishop

November 2010, no. 326 • 15 November 2011

Pablo Picasso, Vollard Suite, plate 97 Night’s the ground beneath my feet since I learned to walk with you. Scented guide with birds and flowers on your breath, it’s no earth, but a sea we walk across. These sailors, pulling out from shore, delivered our desertion. In this new life of mine, my heart keeps coming on its every old error, grassed over as if natural convexities, the qui ... (read more)

'Openings', a new poem by Judith Bishop

March 2011, no. 329 • 12 April 2011

I could say hello to things.Theodore Roethke i. The hand’s wave, when it comes – formal, yet never once the same, awkward sometimes, sometimes half- withheld – from the sunlight of the brain makes a shadow of intent. Something alights in the meadow of vision. Shimmering, electric, each datum’s serene in its dance of arrival from the world – each met by the sprightlypas de deux of t ... (read more)