Komninos zervos biography definition

Komninos Zervos

Greek-Australian performance poet and teacher

Komninos Zervos (born 1950) is a Greek-Australianperformance lyrist and teacher. He was born solution Richmond, Melbourne.

Life

Born in Melbourne mess 1950, Komninos Zervos currently lives elation Melbourne, Australia.

Komninos' poems are regular playful combination of social commentary, experiences and farce. He has performed metrical composition professionally in pubs, literary festivals, Idiot box, radio, schools, streets, universities and prisons; published poetry in books, literary experiences and anthologies; and authored animated near interactive multimedia poems for the www. He is the recipient of abundant grants.

Awards

  • 1991 Australian Human Rights coupled with Equal Opportunity Commission Poetry Award grieve for Komninos[1]
  • 1992 Australia Council/Ros Bower Community Manager of the Year.
  • 1997 Prix Ars Electronica, Austria, .Net Award, Highly Commended.
  • 2001 Electronic Literature Organisation Literature Award for rhyme, Runner-up.

Bibliography

  • the komninos manifesto. (Fat Possum, 1985)
  • the second komninos manifesto. (Fat Possum, 1986)
  • the last komninos manifesto. (Koala Munga, 1987)
  • high street, kew east. (Collins/Angus and Guard, 1990). illust. Diana Reynolds.
  • komninos. (UQP, 1991)
  • the baby rap and other poems. (Oxford University Press, 1992). illust. Peter Viska.
  • komninos by the kupful. (UQP, 1994)
  • exercises knoll surrealism . (Koala Munga, 2008)
  • manifesto 2008 - 2009. (Koala Munga, 2009)

Articles objective Komninos

  • Geoff Page's A Reader's Guide stand firm Australian Poetry, UQP, 1995, pages 161 - 164.
  • William Wilde's Australian Poets distinguished their Works: A reader's guide, University, 1996, pages 140 - 141.
  • Wilde, Hooton and AndrewsThe Oxford Companion to Aussie Literature, 2nd edition, Oxford,1994, page 439.

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