Professor Bronwyn Lea
School of Communication and Arts
b.lea@uq.edu.au
Professor Bronwyn Lea teaches and researches in critical and creative writing, with specialties in contemporary literature and publishing, poetics, narratology, research-led practice, and gender studies.
Bronwyn is the author of four books of poems: Flight Animals; The Wooden Cat and Other Poems; The Other Way Out; and The Deep North. Her poems are widely anthologised, appearing most recently in Thirty Australian Poets, Australian Poetry Since 1788, Sixty Classic Australian Poems, and The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry. As Poetry Editor at the UQP, her list included award-winning titles by Australia's most distinguished poets. As a Director of the Queensland Poetry Festival, she designed and implemented the Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award and the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. She was the founder and series editor (with Martin Duwell) of The Best Australian Poetry series, the inaugural editor of Australian Poetry Journal, and is currently the poetry editor for Meanjin Quarterly.
Bronwyn is a Board Director for UPLIT, which delivers the Brisbane Writers Festival, Word Play, Love YA and a number of regional literary initiatives. She has worked as a consultant and expert to numerous key organisations in the creative industries at a state and federal level, including:
Prime Minister's Literary Awards (Chair)
Queensland Literary Awards (Chair)
Australia Council for the Arts (Literature Board Member)
Australia Council International Marketing Development Program
Queensland Department of the Premier and Cabinet
Queensland Government Department of State Development
Arts Queensland
Poetry and poetics
Narratology
Publishing and book culture
Australian literature
PhD in English, The University of Queensland
Master of Arts, The University of Queensland
Bachelor of Arts, The California State University
Journal Article: Death of a salesman (Queensland Theatre)
Lea, Bronwyn (2019) Death of a salesman (Queensland Theatre). Australian Book Review, .
Journal Article: A life's work: Review of Collected Poems by Les Murray Black Inc, 736pp, $59.99 (HB)
Lea, Bronwyn (2018, November 17). A life's work: Review of Collected Poems by Les Murray Black Inc, 736pp, $59.99 (HB). The Australian, p.16-16.
Journal Article: Scenes from a marriage (Queensland Theatre)
Lea, Bronwyn (2017) Scenes from a marriage (Queensland Theatre). Australian Book Review, .
Distant Poets, Instant Presence: Understanding the Role of Digital Culture in Contemporary Australian Poetry
Grass Flower Head: Poetics of the Everyday
The Gurney: Poetry, Ekphrasis and the Abject Image
The deep north: a selection of poems
Lea, Bronwyn The deep north: a selection of poems. New York, NY United States: George Braziller, 2013.
The best Australian poetry 2009: A selection of the best poems from Australia's literary journals
Lea, Bronwyn and Duwell, Martin The best Australian poetry 2009: A selection of the best poems from Australia's literary journals. Edited by Alan Wearne, Bronwyn Lea and Martin Duwell St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 2009.
Brooks, David, Lea, Bronwyn and Duwell, Martin The best Australian poetry 2008: A selection of the best poems from Australia's literary journals. Edited by David Brooks, Bronwyn Lea and Martin Duwell St Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 2008.
The other way out
Lea, Bronwyn The other way out. Artarmon, NSW, Australia: Giramondo Publishing, 2008.
Lea, Bronwyn and Duwell, Martin The best Australian poetry 2007: A selection of the best poems from Australia's literary journals. Edited by John Tranter, Bronwyn Lea and Martin Duwell St. Lucia, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 2007.
Lea, Bronwyn and Duwell, Martin The best Australian poetry 2006: A selection of the best poems from Australia's literary journals. Edited by Judith Beveridge, Bronwyn Lea and Martin Duwell St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 2006.
Lea, Bronwyn and Duwell, Martin The best Australian poetry 2005: A selection of the best poems from Australia's literary journals. Edited by Peter Porter, Bronwyn Lea and Martin Duwell St Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 2005.
The Wooden Cat and Other Poems
Lea, Bronwyn The Wooden Cat and Other Poems. Warners Bay, New South Wales: Picaro Press, 2003.
The best Australian poetry 2003
The best Australian poetry 2003. Edited by Martin Duwell and Lea, Bronwyn St Lucia QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 2003.
Flight Animals
Lea, Bronwyn Flight Animals 1 ed. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2001.
Poetics and poetry
Lea, Bronwyn (2012). Poetics and poetry. In David Morley and Philip Neilsen (Ed.), The Cambridge companion to creative writing (pp. 67-86) United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CCOL9780521768498.007
Walking down Wickham Terrace
Lea, Bronwyn (2009). Walking down Wickham Terrace. In Joan Patricia Burton-Jones and Kathleen Moira Stewart (Ed.), Queenslanders all over (pp. 390-390) Robina, QLD, Australia: Bond University Press.
Poetry publishing
Lea, Bronwyn (2007). Poetry publishing. In D. J. Carter and A. Galligan (Ed.), Making Books: Contemporary Australian Publishing (pp. 247-254) Brisbane, Australia: University of Queensland Press.
Two ways out
Lea, Bronwyn (2007). Two ways out. In Peter Rose (Ed.), The Best Australian Poems 2007 (pp. 47-47) Melbourne: Black Inc..
Lea, Bronwyn (2004). A Place. In Les Murray (Ed.), The Best Australian Poems 2004 (pp. 112-112) Melbourne, Vic.: Black Inc..
Our Sun Has Fallen Beneath a Memory
Lea, Bronwyn (2003). Our Sun Has Fallen Beneath a Memory. In Page, Geoff (Ed.), The Indigo Book of Modern Australian Sonnets (pp. 49-49) Charnwood, A.C.T.: Ginninderra Press, 2003..
The Greek Foot
Lea, Bronwyn (2001). The Greek Foot. In Flight Animals (pp. 6-6) St Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press.
Death of a salesman (Queensland Theatre)
A life's work: Review of Collected Poems by Les Murray Black Inc, 736pp, $59.99 (HB)
Scenes from a marriage (Queensland Theatre)
Noises off (Queensland Theatre and Melbourne Theatre Company)
Lea, Bronwyn (2017) Noises off (Queensland Theatre and Melbourne Theatre Company). Australian Book Review, .
Bronwyn Lea (2017) Zeitgeist. Australian Book Review, 391 .
Australian poetry now
Lea, Bronwyn (2016) Australian poetry now. Poetry, 208 2: 185-191.
Blow Job (Kama Sutra)
Lea, Bronwyn (2016) Blow Job (Kama Sutra). Island, 144: 103-103.
Jeff Eating Ilona
Lea, Bronwyn (2016) Jeff Eating Ilona. Island, 144: 103-103.
A gift adrift: what the loss of RN's Poetica means to poets
Lea, Bronwyn (2014) A gift adrift: what the loss of RN's Poetica means to poets. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, The Conversation Media Trust.
Grand slam: Lally Katz's Doll's House at the Brisbane Festival
Lea, Bronwyn (2014) Grand slam: Lally Katz's Doll's House at the Brisbane Festival. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, The Conversation Media Trust.
Lea, Bronwyn (2013) Port Moresby. Antipodes, 27 2: 212-212.
Booker-Prize-Winner Eleanor Catton and Male Critics Aging Badly
Lea, Bronwyn (2013) Booker-Prize-Winner Eleanor Catton and Male Critics Aging Badly. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, The Conversation Media Trust.
Interrogating literature … and the language of who we are
Lea, Bronwyn (2013) Interrogating literature … and the language of who we are. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, The Conversation Media Trust.
Pleasures of Aporia
Lea, Bronwyn (2013) Pleasures of Aporia. Australian Book Review, 354: .
Floodtide in the Heart: Vale Seamus Heaney
Lea, Bronwyn (2013) Floodtide in the Heart: Vale Seamus Heaney. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, The Conversation Media Trust.
Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2013
Lea, Bronwyn (2013) Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2013. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, The Conversation Media Trust.
Michelle de Kretser Named Fifteenth Woman to Win the Miles Franklin
Lea, Bronwyn (2013) Michelle de Kretser Named Fifteenth Woman to Win the Miles Franklin. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, The Conversation Media Trust.
Ambiguous Agnes
Lea, Bronwyn (2013) Ambiguous Agnes. Australian Book Review, 351: .
This year's Miles Franklin is "all woman"
Lea, Bronwyn (2013) This year's Miles Franklin is "all woman". Melbourne, VIC, Australia, The Conversation Media Trust.
Lest we forget: Binyon's Ode of Remembrance
Lea, Bronwyn (2013) Lest we forget: Binyon's Ode of Remembrance. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, The Conversation Media Trust.
Carrie Tiffany wins a Stella Prize of her own
Lea, Bronwyn (2013) Carrie Tiffany wins a Stella Prize of her own. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, The Conversation Media Trust.
A Packet of Salted Peanuts
Lea, Bronwyn (2013) A Packet of Salted Peanuts. Australian Book Review, 348 56-57.
Gasps as Nancy Huston scoops 2012 Bad Sex Award
Lea, Bronwyn (2012) Gasps as Nancy Huston scoops 2012 Bad Sex Award. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, The Conversation Media Trust.
My money's on economist Paul Mason to win Bad Sex Award
Lea, Bronwyn (2012) My money's on economist Paul Mason to win Bad Sex Award. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, The Conversation Media Trust.
Another Man Booker for Hilary Mantel's mantle
Lea, Bronwyn (2012) Another Man Booker for Hilary Mantel's mantle. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, The Conversation Media Trust.
Chinese gold: Mo Yan wins 2012 Nobel Prize in literature
Lea, Bronwyn (2012) Chinese gold: Mo Yan wins 2012 Nobel Prize in literature. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, The Conversation Media Trust.
Queensland announces literary award winners, no thanks to Newman
Lea, Bronwyn (2012) Queensland announces literary award winners, no thanks to Newman. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, The Conversation Media Trust.
The mammaries linger on
Lea, Bronwyn (2012) The mammaries linger on. Sydney, Australia, Nationwide News (The Australian).
End of empire: vale Gore Vidal
Lea, Bronwyn (2012) End of empire: vale Gore Vidal. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, The Conversation Media Trust.
The blood became sick: Luke Davies' Interferon Psalms
Lea, Bronwyn (2012) The blood became sick: Luke Davies' Interferon Psalms. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, The Conversation Media Trust.
Poetry bestsellers and other oxymorons
Lea, Bronwyn (2012) Poetry bestsellers and other oxymorons. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, The Conversation Media Trust.
How fiction makes something happen
Lea, Bronwyn (2012) How fiction makes something happen. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, The Conversation Media Trust.
Anna Funder takes the Miles Franklin
Lea, Bronwyn (2012) Anna Funder takes the Miles Franklin. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, The Conversation Media Trust.
Powers we pretend to understand: Anna Funder's All That I Am
Lea, Bronwyn (2012) Powers we pretend to understand: Anna Funder's All That I Am. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, The Conversation Media Trust.
Judges return the XX chromosomes to the Miles Franklin
Lea, Bronwyn (2012) Judges return the XX chromosomes to the Miles Franklin. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, The Conversation Media Trust.
The mere self
Lea, Bronwyn (2012) The mere self. Australian Book Review, 1 341: 64-64.
Paul D. Carter, 32, wins the Vogel, but what's age got to do with it?
Lea, Bronwyn (2012) Paul D. Carter, 32, wins the Vogel, but what's age got to do with it?. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, The Conversation Media Trust.
Political poetry took down Guenter Grass ... but is it any good?
Bronwyn, Lea (2012) Political poetry took down Guenter Grass ... but is it any good?. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, The Conversation Media Trust.
Dubious lessons
Lea, Bronwyn (2012) Dubious lessons. Australian Book Review, 1 338: 27-27.
Stalled in transit: The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
Lea, Bronwyn (2011) Stalled in transit: The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje. Australian Literary Review, 6 9: 16-16.
Love against Max Hardcore
Lea, Bronwyn (2011) Love against Max Hardcore. Australian Literary Review, 6 6: 19-19.
Lea, Bronwyn (2011) The flood. Australian Literary Review, 6 5: 21-21.
Jury still out for Mad Mel
Lea, Bronwyn (2011) Jury still out for Mad Mel. Australian Literary Review, 6 4: 8-8.
Masked marauder
Lea, Bronwyn (2011) Masked marauder. Australian Literary Review, 6 2: 18-19.
Curious fruit
Lea, Bronwyn (2010) Curious fruit. Australian Book Review, 1 324: 70-70.
Annual poetry review 2009-2010
Lea, Bronwyn (2010) Annual poetry review 2009-2010. Westerly, 55 1: 21-38.
Lea, Bronwyn (2008) Women of a certain age. Australian Literary Review, 3 11: 25-25.
Insufficient knowledge: For The Australian Voices
Davidson, Robert and Lea, Bronwyn (2008) Insufficient knowledge: For The Australian Voices. Grosvenor Place, NSW, Australia, Australian Music Centre.
The Poetry Bestseller
Lea, Bronwyn (2008) The Poetry Bestseller. The Australian author, 6-9.
Trends in poetry publishing: 1995-2008
Lea, Bronwyn (2008) Trends in poetry publishing: 1995-2008. Five Bells, 15 4: 61-64.
The Bodhisattva's hand: India, c. 1st century A.D.
Lea, Bronwyn (2007) The Bodhisattva's hand: India, c. 1st century A.D.. Antipodes: A global journal of Australian/New Zealand literature, 21 2: 147-147.
Lea, Bronwyn (2007) The other way out. Antipodes: A global journal of Australian/New Zealand literature, 21 1: 52-52.
Learning the language
Lea, Bronwyn (2007) Learning the language. The Age, A2.29-A2.29.
The Peeping Tom and other voyeurs
Lea, Bronwyn (2007) The Peeping Tom and other voyeurs. Age, A2.10-A2.11.
One of the horses of Marly: Guillaume Coustou, 1745
Lea, Bronwyn (2005) One of the horses of Marly: Guillaume Coustou, 1745. Southerly, 65 3: 140-140.
Lea, Bronwyn (2005) Palinode. Southerly, 65 3: 141-141.
Insufficient knowledge
Lea, Bronwyn (2004) Insufficient knowledge. Quadrant, 48 11: 70-70.
Bronwyn Lea (poetry)
Lea, Bronwyn (2004) Bronwyn Lea (poetry). Heat, 07 92-93.
The Nightgown (poetry)
Lea, Bronwyn (2004) The Nightgown (poetry). Heat, 07 96-96.
Lea, Bronwyn (2003) This Day. Journal of Australian Studies, 77 139-139.
Lea, Bronwyn (2002) Why I Write. Jacket: International Poetry and Prose Magazine, 16 .
Absolute Pear
Lea, Bronwyn (2002) Absolute Pear. Journal of Australian Studies, 75 109-109. doi:10.1080/14443050209387809
Lea, Bronwyn (2002) Cheap red wine. Overland, 166 166: 54-54.
Poem for Seferis
Lea, Bronwyn (2002) Poem for Seferis. Salt, 15 114-114.
Sylvia Plath's Bed
Lea, Bronwyn (2002) Sylvia Plath's Bed. Island, 91 Summer: 142-143.
Lea, Bronwyn (2002) The Nest. Heat, 4 145-145.
These Gifts
Lea, Bronwyn (2002) These Gifts. Heat, 4 146-146.
Lea, Bronwyn (2001) Antipodes. Journal of Australian Studies, 25 68: 154-154. doi:10.1080/14443050109387673
Tomorrow I Will Plant Flowers, Find a New Place to Hang My Keys
Lea, Bronwyn (2001) Tomorrow I Will Plant Flowers, Find a New Place to Hang My Keys. Sidewalk, 7/8 80-80.
STUDENT BELIEFS AND ATTITUDES FROM POETRY WRITING IN STATISTICS
Bulmer, M, Lea, B and Rolka, K (2006). STUDENT BELIEFS AND ATTITUDES FROM POETRY WRITING IN STATISTICS. In: PME 30: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 30TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL GROUP FOR THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MATHEMATICS EDUCATION, VOL 1,. 30th Conference of the International-Group-for-the-Psychology-of-Mathematics-Education, Prague CZECH REPUBLIC, (229-229). JUL 16-21, 2006.
Edited Outputs
Australian Poetry Journal
Australian Poetry Journal (2012) Volume 2 Issue 2
The way into stone ; To dwell in possibility : social roles of the poet
Lea, Bronwyn (2005). The way into stone ; To dwell in possibility : social roles of the poet PhD Thesis, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland.
Handing Back Time
Lea, Bronwyn (2000) Handing Back Time. Toowoomba, Queensland, University of Southern Queensland.
Dr Natalie Collie
Desire: On Sex, Trauma and Form
Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Dr Karin Sellberg
Anthony Lawrence: In the Image of His Father
Professor Peter Holbrook
Functions of Body in Eco-Poetics
Creative research project: Force of Gravity: Meeting an Event in the News With an Event in Poetry
Dr Martin Duwell
The Apex Essays
Dr Richard Newsome
¿All a poet can do today is warn¿: Language as warning in the (new) nuclear age
Julie: the development and analysis of the creation of a new musical theatre work.
Dr Eve Klein
Green as the Sky is Blue: A Story of Translation
Dr Venero Armanno
Dr Ruth Blair
White Swan Black: Fonteyn, Guillem and Copeland
(2019) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Dr Jessica White
Horizontal Vertigo: Essays on Australia and Latin America
Dr Roberto Esposto
Mourning of Oblivion: describing Jacopo Pontormo and the gap between
A Permanent Supply of Dreams
Facing North: Representation of Memory in Fiction
The Birdman's Wife
Dr Melissa Harper
A Minor Fifth
Dr Daniel O'Neill
Three Types of North
Associate Professor Stephen Carleton
Relating Experience: Spiritual Practice and the Poetry of Judith Beveridge, Kevin Hart, Robert Gray and Michael Heald
The Semantics of Silence in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens
"An Absence of Saints"
The Flame in the Fire
Time and Subjectivity in the Short Novel
Rooftops in Karachi
Straw Sandals, Two Pairs
Dr Bronwen Levy
The Welfare of My Enemy
Incomplete Works: The Life and Death of Diego García Santiago
'The Taint': Major Dissertation 'Questions of Ownership': Critical Essay
Emeritus Professor Carole Ferrier
Learning How to Breathe
Questions to Answers
SOUNDING THE OTHER LIGHT
() Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
The Vulnerable Machine: Writing a Personal Illness discourse
OPENED IN BRAZIL
DARK HUSK OF BEAUTY
ELECTRICITY FOR BEGINNERS
THREE ACTS OF WAITING
latecomers
THRILL SEEKERS AND IN SEARCH OF A GENRE OR WHAT EXACTLY IS IT THAT I'VE WRITTEN?
Wisdom Tree and the Novella in the Twenty-First Century
Associate Professor Kim Wilkins
Poets on the Air: Authorial Presence and National Identity in ABC Radio National's Poetica
Dr Lisa Bode
Making the Dead Speak: Writing Dialogue in Historical Fiction
Making the Past Present: Tense and Temporality in Family Memoir
Geoffrey Hill: Poetry, Faith, Politics
Under the Sint & Revolutionary Road and the Art of Pacing
The Milkmother
'The Blue Poppy Sea': Reflections on writing from the leaky boat of an ethnographic novel.
The Beachcomber's Bed
Wild Spirit: Halfway Through Africa
WHOSE STORY IS THIS ANYWAY?
Narrative, Publishing, Editing, Poetics, Creative writing, Writing, Australian literature, Australian poetry, Poetry, American poetry, Literary Studies
ResearcherID: M-6346-2013
Google Scholar ID: K3V2Mp4AAAAJ
Personal Profile: Link
Bronwyn Lea's website
Bronwyn Lea at Academia
Dr Helen Marshall
Dr Liangchen Liu
Performing Arts and Creative Writing