Ken Bolton

Ken Bolton (born 1949) is an Australian poet, editor, art critic, and publisher.

Early life and education

Ken Bolton was born in Sydney in 1949. He studied fine arts at the University of Sydney, where he also tutored.[1]

Career

In the late 1970s Bolton edited the poetry magazine Magic Sam, and began the small press Sea Cruise Books with Anna Couani.[2] Bolton's first book of poems, Four Poems, was published in 1977.

In 1982 he moved to Adelaide to work at the Experimental Art Foundation.[1]

He edited the now defunct literary magazine Otis Rush[1] and collaborated with Melbourne writer and poet John Jenkins on several books of poetry, verse novellas, and other works. His Selected Poems was published by Penguin in 1992.[1]

In 2005 Wakefield Press published his monograph on the contemporary sculptor Michelle Nikou.[3] His collection (At The Flash & At The Baci, 2006) was described by Heather Taylor-Johnson as "prov[ing] to us that Ken Bolton is a prime example of a poet breaking new ground in Australian poetry."[4]

Recognition and awards

Bolton's 2019 book Salute was shortlisted for the 2022 John Bray Poetry Award.[5]

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections and chapbooks
  • Four Poems. Sydney: Sea Cruise Books. 1977.[a]
  • Blonde & French. (Island, 1978) ISBN 0-909771-18-9
  • Talking to You: Poems 1978-1981. (Rigmarole, 1983) ISBN 0-909229-25-2
  • Blazing Shoes. (Open Dammit, 1984) ISBN 0-9591159-0-0
  • Airborne dogs, With John Jenkins. (Brunswick Hills, 1988) ISBN 0-9590929-3-5
  • The Ferrara Poems, With John Jenkins. (Experimental Art Foundation, 1989) ISBN 0-949836-21-4
  • Two poems. (Experimental Art Foundation, 1990) ISBN 0-949836-26-5
  • Selected Poems. (Penguin, 1992) ISBN 0-14-058688-1
  • Untimely Meditations & Other Poems. (Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 1997) ISBN 1-86254-432-8
  • At The Flash & At The Baci. (Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2006) ISBN 1-86254-692-4
  • The Circus. (Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2006)
  • A Whistled Bit of Bop. (Vagabond Press, Sydney, 2010) ISBN 978-0-98051-135-2
  • Sly Mongoose. (Puncher & Wattmann, Sydney, 2011) ISBN 978-1-921450-30-3
  • Selected Poems, 1975—2010. (Shearsman Press, Bristol, UK, 2012) ISBN 978-1-84861-209-9
  • Threefer. (Puncher & Wattmann, Sydney, 2013) ISBN 978-1-9221-8646-1
  • London journal London poem or "Pendant"(Vagabond Press, Sydney, 2015) ISBN 978-1-92218-161-9
  • Lonnie's Lament. (Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2017) ISBN 978-1-74305-472-7
  • Species of Spaces. (Shearsman Press, Bristol, UK, 2017) ISBN 978-1-84861-576-2
  • Starting at Basheer's. (Vagabond Press, Sydney, 2018) ISBN 978-1-92218-188-6
  • Salute. (Puncher & Wattmann, Sydney, 2019) ISBN 978-1-92578-040-6

Non fiction

  • Michelle Nikou. (Wakefield, 2005) ISBN 1-86254-676-2
  • Art Writing: Art in Adelaide in the 1990s and 2000s. (CACSA, 2009) ISBN 978-1-875751-34-1

Notes

  1. ^ Limited edition of 300 copies.

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Ken Bolton Contents Page". Australian Literature Resources (now Austlit). Archived from the original on 7 February 2007. Retrieved 29 March 2007.
  2. ^ Minter, Peter; Ken Bolton (29 April 2005). "Ken Bolton in conversation with Peter Minter". Jacket Magazine. Retrieved 29 March 2007.
  3. ^ Bolton, Ken (2005), Michelle Nikou / Ken Bolton (library catalogue entry), Wakefield Press, ISBN 1862546762, retrieved 12 April 2025 – via National Library of Australia
  4. ^ Taylor-Johnson, Heather (14 January 2007). "Heather Taylor Johnson reviews Ken Bolton". Cordite Poetry Review. Retrieved 13 July 2008.
  5. ^ "2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 19 January 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2022.

Further reading

  • Beesley, Luke (January–February 2021). "It Must Have Been Moonglow". Australian Book Review. 428: 53–54. (review of Salute)
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