Christopher Ringrose
After an academic career in Canada and the UK, Chris Ringrose moved to Melbourne in 2012.
He is currently a Research associate in literature at Monash University. He has published critical essays on modern poetry, modern fiction, children's literature and literary theory, and edits The Journal of Postcolonial Writing and the book series Studies in World Literature. He is a poetry reviewer for Australian Poetry Journal and writes for the human rights organization Write Now.
Chris's poetry has won the "Other Voices" award (Canada), the Peterloo Poetry prize (UK) and The Poetica Christi Prize (Australia), and been published in Fiddlehead, Australis, The Mozzie, Poetry Monash, The South Circular. and anthologies including Best Australian Poems and Finding Your Feet. He also writes short fiction and was one of the contributors to the Melbourne Subjective collection (1914) and the microfiction anthology Flashing the Square (2014).
His latest poetry collection is Palmistry (ICoE Press, 2019). Creative Lives: Interviews with 18 South Asian Writers was published in 2021 by Columbia University Press.
Visit Chris’ website for new poetry postings each month
Life in, and connection to, Hobsons Bay
Chris lives in Williamstown and belongs to The Williamstown Writers Group. He won the "People's Choice" award at the 2013 Williamstown Literary Festival. He has been on the Committee of the Festival since 2014.
Works
- “Widow” in Mascara Literary Review (2024)
- “I Wanted You” in Finding My Feet: An Anthology of Poetic Voices. (2024) Melbourne Poets Union.
- “Three on the Road”, “A European in the Simpson Desert” and “A Thankyou Note” (2023) in Journeys Poetica Christi Press.
- Creative Lives: Interviews with Eighteen South Asian Diaspora Writers” (2021) New York: Columbia UP
- “Palmistry” (2019) Melbourne: In Case of Emergency Press.
- “Three Poems by Ricardo Guiraldes translated from Spanish” (2018) in The Missouri Literary Review
- "Melbourne" and "The House of Bricks" in Melbourne Subjective (2014) The Cartridge Family
- "White Out" in Flashing the Square (2014) Spineless Wonders
- "Windows" in The Very End of the Affair (2013) Stringybark
- "McIntyre's Beach" in Fight or Flight (2013) Stringybark
- “Ben Okri's The Famished Road: A Reassessment” Commonwealth Essays and Studies 35.2 (Spring 2013), 33-44
- “New Historicism” and “Study Skills for Literature.” The English Literature Companion. Ed. Julian Wolfreys. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 33-55, 304-06
- “Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans” Kazuo Ishiguro. Ed Sebastian Grose. London: Macmillan, 2009. Ch13
- “New Historical Fiction for Children.” Children’s Literature: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 2009. 354-63
- “BB: The Secret Places.” BB: A Symposium (2009) Roseworld Press
- “A Journey Backwards: History as Style in Children's Fiction.” in Children's Literature in Education. 38. 3 (2007): 200-230
- "Assesssing Ben Okri's Fiction 1995-2005." British Fiction Today, Ed Rod Menghem and Philip Tew. London: Continuum, 2006. 78-90
- “Lying in Children's Fiction: Morality and the Imagination.” Children's Literature in Education. 37. 3 (2006): 229-36
- "Victorian Autobiography: Henry James, Harriet Martineau, John Ruskin'' The Encyclopaedia of Life Writing, FitzroyDearborn, 2001
- "Productivity: Literary Value and the Curriculum" English Studies December 2001
- "Getting Lost in a Book" Children's Literature in Education. 31. 3 (1996)