Saxby Pridmore
Saxby Pridmore is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Tasmania. He has written several textbooks and over two hundred academic papers. Saxby was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to psychiatric treatment and research.
He is a also a poet, with almost 300 poems published regularly since 1986 in diverse publications including Quadrant, Studio, Famous Reporter, Blue Dog, Overland and Island. A select anthology of these poems, White-out, was published by Lacuna in 2016.
Saxby was hewn by the Australian bush poets, sand-papered by Les Murray and W B Yeates, polished by Bruce Dawe and Mary Oliver, and is given an occasional light dust-off by Michael Leunig.
He and his wife Mary have a son and a daughter, and three grandchildren.
Previous publications and prizes
- Studio National Poetry Prize, Runner-up, 2007
- Australia Remembers Literary Award, Highly Commended, 1995
- Erle Joseph Poetry Award, Highly Commended, 1986
- Contest of the Decade, Highly Commended, 1990
Poetry anthologies:
- Primary Care, edited by Angela Belli and Jack Coulehan (University of Iowa Press, 2006)
- Verbal Medicine, edited by Tim Metcalf (Ginninderra Press, 2006)
- The Quadrant Book of Poetry 2001–2010, edited by Les Murray (Quadrant Books, 2012)
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