M. T. C. Cronin

M. T. C. Cronin (born 1963) is a contemporary Australian poet.

MTC Cronin has published more than twenty books (poetry, prose poems and essays) including a collection jointly written with the Australian poet and translator, Peter Boyle and another with Melbourne-based librettist and poet, Maria Zajkowski.

Forthcoming books
  • A Ticket to Trilce (Shearsman, Exeter, UK, 2021)
  • Who Was by Alex Quel (co-written with Peter Boyle, Puncher & Wattmann, Newcastle, Australia, 2021)

Bibliography

Poetry
  • Zoetrope: we see us moving (Five Islands, Wollongong, Australia, 1995) ISBN 1-875604-34-0
  • the world beyond the fig (Five Islands, Wollongong, Australia, 1998, shortlisted CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 1999) ISBN 0864186118
  • Everything Holy (Balcones International Press, Temple, USA, 1998, shortlisted Jessie Litchfield Award for Literature 1997; shortlisted Age Book of the Year 1999; shortlisted Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry, Qld Premier's Literary Awards 1999; shortlisted Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2000; commended Wesley Michel Wright Prize for Poetry 1999) ISBN 1-891811-04-5 (review)
  • Mischief-Birds (Vagabond Press, Sydney, Australia, 1999)
  • Bestseller (Vagabond Press, Sydney, Australia, 2001, shortlisted John Bray Poetry Award, South Australian Festival Awards for Literature 2002; shortlisted Age Book of the Year 2002) ISBN 0-9578378-2-8
  • Talking to Neruda's Questions (Vagabond Press, Sydney, Australia, 2001, ISBN 0-9578378-2-8 online at www.shearsman.com
  • My Lover's Back (UQP, St Lucia, Australia, 2002, shortlisted John Bray Poetry Award, South Australian Festival Awards for Literature 2004) ISBN 0-7022-3284-X
  • The Confetti Stone and other poems (Picaro Press, Warner's Bay, Australia, 2002) ISSN 1444-8424
  • beautiful, unfinished ~ PARABLE/SONG/CANTO/POEM (Salt, Cambridge, UK, 2003, Book of the Month, Shearsman Books, UK, August 2003; shortlisted Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2004) ISBN 1-876857-29-3
  • <More or Less Than> 1-100 (Shearsman, Exeter, UK, 2004, shortlisted Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2005; shortlisted Age Book of the Year 2005; winner CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2005; winner Award for Innovation in Writing, South Australian Festival Awards for Literature 2006 ) ISBN 0-907562-47-7 excerpts 1-13, 88-100
  • The Flower, the Thing (UQP, St Lucia, Australia, 2006, shortlisted WARM Literary Awards Book of the Year 2007) ISBN 0-7022-3556-3
  • Our Life is a Box. / Prayers Without a God (Soi 3, Chiang Mai/Brisbane, Australia/Thailand, 2007)ISBN 978-0-9579411-4-4
  • Notebook of Signs (& 3 Other Small Books) (Shearsman, Exeter, UK, 2007) ISBN 978-1-905700-11-0
  • How Does a Man Who is Dead Reinvent His Body? (The Belated Love Poems of Thean Morris Caelli) (co-written with Peter Boyle, Shearsman Books, Exeter, UK, 2008) ISBN 978-1-84861-016-3
  • Irrigations (of the Human Heart) ~ Fictional Essays on the Poetics of Living, Art & Love (Ravenna Press, Edmonds, USA, 200) ISBN 978-0-9822115-3-3
  • Squeezing Desire Through a Sieve ~ micro-essays on judgement & justice (Puncher & Wattmann, Sydney, Australia, 2009, shortlisted Award for Innovation in Writing, South Australian Festival Awards for Literature 2010) ISBN 978-1-921450-12-9
  • The World Last Night [metaphors for death] (UQP, St Lucia, Australia, 2012, highly commended, Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2013) ISBN 978-0-7022-4951-8
  • in possession of loss (Shearsman, Exeter, UK, 2014) ISBN 978-1-84861-382-9
  • The Law of Poetry (Puncher & Wattmann, Sydney, Australia, 2015) ISBN 978-1-9221866-1-4
  • Causal ~ speaking the future (Spuyten Duyvil, New York, USA, 2018) ISBN 978-1-947980-51-8
  • Sometimes the Soul (The Sophia Lexicon Press, Maleny, Australia, 2019)
  • God is Waiting in the World's Yard (Puncher & Wattmann, Newcastle, Australia, 2019) ISBN 978-1-925780-06-2
  • What We Have Except When We are Lost (co-written with Maria Zajkowski, Spuyten Duyvil, New York, USA, 2020) ISBN 978-1-949966-79-4

In translation
  • Respondiendo a las Preguntas de Neruda in Spanish and English, trans. Juan Garrido Salgado (Safo, Santiago, Chile, 2004) ISBN 956-7661-04-9
  • Controcanto al Libro Delle Domande di Neruda in Italian and English, trans. Hans Kitzmuller (Braitan, Brazzano, Italy, 2005) ISBN 88-86950-11-X
  • The Ridiculous Shape of Longing: New and Selected Poems in English and Macedonian, trans. Igor Isakovski (Blesok, Skopje, Macedonia, 2005) ISBN 9989-928-51-7

External sources

References
  • MTC Cronin at Thylazine Artists and Writers Directory


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