Komninos Zervos

Komninos Zervos (born 1950) is a Greek-Australian performance poet and teacher. He was born in Richmond, Melbourne.

Life
Born in Melbourne in 1950, Komninos Zervos currently lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Komninos' poems are a playful combination of social commentary, autobiography and farce. He has performed poetry professionally in pubs, literary festivals, TV, radio, schools, streets, universities and prisons; published poetry in books, literary journals and anthologies; and authored animated and interactive multimedia poems for the internet. He is the recipient of numerous grants.



Awards

 * 1991 Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Poetry Award for Komninos
 * 1992 Australia Council/Ros Bower Community Artist of the Year.
 * 1997 Prix Ars Electronica, Austria, .Net Award, Highly Commended.
 * 2001 Electronic Literature Organisation Literature Award for poetry, Runner-up.

Articles on Komninos

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