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Glen Phillips (writer & academic)
Glenly (Glen) Roy Elliott Phillips is an award-winning poet and a landscape painter, currently an Honorary Professor who has worked at Edith Cowan University and its predecessors for some 55 years. His poetry concerns landscapes of Western Australia, Italy and China. His published academic papers number over 50 and he is general editor of the highly regarded E-journal, Landscapes.

Biography
Glen Phillips was born in 1936 in the outback gold-mining town of Southern Cross in Western Australia and lived most of his early life in the WA Wheatbelt and jarrah forests of the South-West. Much of his poetry therefore reflects rural life especially that of his farming grandparents in the Avon Valley near Beverley as featured in his two-volume poetry collection, Over the Hills & Far Away: Poems of the WA Wheatbelt. For two years during World War II the family were forced to live in Perth, then under the threat of Japanese invasion. They moved back to the country in1944. In elementary school he first began to write little plays and poetry for his schoolfellows.

He began his secondary education in Perth with the aid of a scholarship, attending the historic Perth Boys’ and Perth Modern Schools where he won a scholarship to study for a BEd honours degree at the University of WA. His studies of English poetry led him back to writing and publishing his own poetry and in1962, after teaching several years in a country high school he returned to Perth as a lecturer in English at the Graylands Teachers’ College.

Here in 1967 he first met well-known Welsh poet Bryn Griffiths who encouraged him to return to his distant Welsh origins and embark on a parallel career both as poet and teacher. Glen’s first books (published in 1969) included anthologies of contemporary world poetry intended for his students and published by Angus & Robertson and the University of WA Press. Intersections, his first book of poems, was published in conjunction with a group of lithographic artists in 1972.

After competing an MEd at UWA, Glen’s career as an academic and administrator led to his appointment in 1978 as an Assistant Director of the newly-formed Mount Lawley College of Advanced Education in Perth. He continued to teach creative writing and English while developing the School of General Studies at MLCAE with new courses in Intercultural and Indigenous Studies and ultimately BA degrees, bachelor, masters and PhD courses in Writing and Public Relations in the Faculty of Arts.

Glen’s writing career was meanwhile gathering pace as he became President of the Fellowship of Australian Writers and a member of the Australian Society of Authors. In Italy, where he was awarded a scholarship to study Italian at Perugia, he created and co-translated a joint collection of poems of Australian and Umbria with poet and impresario Dr Walter Cerquetti. Umbria e Australia Dorate e Verdi was published by Editrice Sigla Tre (Perugia) in 1986.

Some 70 of Glen’s books and chapbooks have followed, frequently joint-authored. As well, he has edited anthologies and large numbers of his poems have been published separately in journals and newspapers in Australia and overseas.

During this period he also made something of a name for himself in setting up with Bryn Griffiths, Shane McCauley and Alan Alexander, Poetry in Motion—an exclusively Celtic-origin poetry-reading group. With Australia Council for the Arts funding they toured outback and suburban WA and even overseas in Singapore and Thailand. Their anthology, Poetry in Motion (1986) soon sold out. ABC radio and television appearances followed. In 1988 they were commissioned by the Bi-Centenary Authority to create a major performance work on the theme of the Swan River, presented at the Fremantle Art Centre.

Ultimately in 2015 this was published as a book—The River: a Meditation on the Swan and Avon. It is in fact an historical and geographical biography of Perth’s Swan-Avon River system.

Continuing his academic career Glen Phillips became absorbed in the study of landscape according to the new theories of ‘ecocriticism’ spreading from the US and Britain. With artist Judith Dinham he began a project “Landscape and Artists” concentrating on the learning of landscape as a life skill. To test how learning a new landscape as opposed to one’s native landscape, they conducted a program of identifying the elements of a home or birth landscape that are embedded like a native language in early life. Then they set out to ‘learn’ a totally new landscape. As arts practitioners they tried to enhance that new learning experience within their work in print and on canvas. They chose Tuscany as a challenging contrast to the Australian outback. On their return to Australia they set up a post-graduate on-line course called “Landscape and You” supported by a 12-episode television series screened on national TV. Exhibitions and publications of their work followed.

Meanwhile, Glen also became interested in the emerging concept of Writers Centres. Glen led the establishment of WA’s first such example, the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre in the former home of Prichard in the foothills of the Darling Range east of Perth city. From this success, Glen helped to establish the Peter Cowan Writers Centre on the Joondalup campus of ECU north of Perth in 1995. This centre is housed within the re-erected home of Edith Cowan, Peter’s grandmother, first woman parliamentarian in Australia. Glen is still an active member of the Centre’s administration.

The final stage of Glen’s poetry career began when he retired from active teaching to become an Honorary Professor and Director of the International Centre for Landscape and Language, which he established at ECU with Professors Andrew Taylor and John Kinsella back in 1990. The ‘Landscape Centre’ has become well-known world wide, partly because it created one of the first ‘on-line’ academic journals, Landscapes, now in its tenth year of existence. The Centre also led to much of Glen’s current intensive involvement in Australian Studies in China. The Centre has hosted many visiting scholars from China working in the field of Australian literary studies and in turn, Glen has given lecture courses all over China at the many Australian Studies Centres in their universities. Additionally, his own poetry has become a common focus of translators (staff and student) in Chinese universities so that over 200 of his poems and stories have now been published there.

Now, with more than seventy books released, Glen has had quite an extraordinary ‘late flowering’ in his career as a writer and is moving to extend his talents to writing prose fiction and landscape paintings to accompany some of his work. His Collected Poems, In the Hollow of the Land (2018) in two volumes, contains more than 400 poems and 40 sketches. His two volumes of 40 short stories published in 2020-2021 have broadened his readership and book of 100 of his landscape paintings was published in 2021. In January 2022 the first exhibition of 75 of his Australian, Italian and Chinese landscape paintings was exhibited at Gallery 25 in Perth, WA. In September 2022 his second exhibition will be for the York Arts Festival. His next exhibitions are to be in Shanghai 2023 and Collie, 2024.

Awards & Prizes
1948       WA Education Department Secondary School Scholarship

1951       Claude Hotchin Prize for Young Artists, (highly commended)

1954       Commonwealth Scholarship for tertiary study

1957       Bertha Houghton Prize for Education, University of WA

1979       Tom Collins Poetry Prize, (highly commended)

1980       Italian Government Scholarship, University for Foreigners, Perugia, Italy

1981       Premier’s Prize for Bilingual Book, NSW Government, (highly commended)

1988       Mazzuchelli Poetry Competition, (third prize)

1988       Randolph Stow Poetry Award, (commended)

1989     Mazzuchelli Poetry Competition, (second prize)

2001     Appointed Patron, Katharine Susannah Prichard Foundation

2002 & 2003     Nominated for WA Citizen of the Year Awards  (Services to the Arts)

2007     Tom Collins Poetry Prize, Highly Commended

2010     Tom Collins Poetry Prize, Highly Commended

2011     Tom Collins Poetry Prize, Highly Commended

2017     Community Service Award for Dedicated Service to the KSP Foundation

2017     Nominated by Australia-China Friendship Association for Service to Australia-China relations

2020     Winner of Ros Spencer National Poetry Competition

Selected publications
Poetry Collections

Intersections (1972), Umbria Green/Australia Gold (1986), Poetry in Motion (1985), Sacrificing the Leaves (1988), A Suite of Rooms (1991) Lovesongs;Lovescenes (1991), Spring Burning (1999), Singing Granites (2008), The Moon Belongs to No One (2014), Shanghai Suite(2009), Redshift Cosmology 1 (2010), A Show of Colours (2011), Six Seasons (2012), Nanjing Threnody (2012), The Woman River (2012), Four Elementals (2012), Dugite Country (2012), Wo Ai Ni (2013), A Spanish Suite (2013), Heilongjiang Summers (2013), Morning Star to Evening Star (2013), Gold in Granite (2013), Etruscanini (2013), Kandimalal: Wolfe Creek Poems (2013), Alpi e Prati (2013), Dryandra Dreaming (2014), Winged Seed Songs (2014), Over the Hills (2017), And Far Away (2017), Three in the Campagna (2014), The River (2015), Slings and Arrows I (2015), Land Whisperings (2015), Slings and Arrows 2 (2016), Six City Sonnets (2016), Crouching Tigers, And Hidden Dragons (2017), Five Conversations with the Indian Ocean (2017), Salt-lakes and Salmon Gums (2017), Ten Zen Illustrated (2017), Primavariants (2017), Redshift Cosmology 2 (2017), In the Hollow of the Land: Collected Poems (2018), Intersections II (2021),!00 Landscapes (2021), Dramatic Women (2021), Fantasia Anthropocenia (2022), Seedsongs (2022).

Short Story Collections

Far and Wide (2020)

In the Presence of Greatness (2021)

Anthology Inclusions: Magic 2 (Singapore, 1977), Lip Service (1979), Almanaco Umbro (1983), Yilgarn (1988), Summerland (1980), The Tin Wash Dish (1989), Margins (1989, Wordhord (1989), Celebrations (1989), Sudden Alchemy (1989), Footprints on Paper (1996), A Selection of Chinese and Australian Poems (1994), Selected Australian Lyrical Poems (1992), Contemporary Australian Poetry (2007), The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry (2008), Lines in the Sand (2008), Sense Shape Symbol (2012), KSP 25th Anniversary Anthology (2010), Notes for the Translators (2013), Non So Raw As This Our Land (2013), The Quadrant Book of Poetry (2012) When the Moon is Swimming Naked: Australasian Poetry for the Chinese Youngster (2014), Western Australian Poetry (2017), The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry (2014), Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry etc

Special Collections: Poetry Australia, The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Literary Review, Salt, Landscapes, An Anthology for Kids, International Journal of Contemporary Humanities,Yilgarn: a History.

Journal, Magazine and Newspaper Inclusions: Chiron, Westerly, The West Australian, The Critic, Saturday Book Club, Artlook,, Poetry Australia, Australian Book Review Fremantle Arts Review, Margins, Tampa Review (USA), Australian Lyric Poetry (China), The West Australian, Poetry Review (UK), Western Writers, Text, Harambee, Lo Sparviero (Italy), Guardian Express, New Directions in Australian Studies (India), Al Volante, The Literary Review (USA), Marginata, Culbridge (China), API Network Journal, Thirst, Prosopisia (India),The Backpackers Magazine (Thailand), Stylus Poetry Journal, Blood Orange Review (USA), Florence News (Italy), Poetry d’Amour, Creative Connections, Voyages (Florence), An Anthology for Kids (Macau), Southerly, Cordite Magazine

Conference Attendances where Papers were presented

Seventh Annual Conference, Association of Australian Writing Programs, Melbourne. ‘Writing in Landscapes Downunder’, 2002.

Seventh Biennial International Conference, Australian Studies Association, Hebei (China). ‘Working Class Characters in WA Short Fiction’, 2002.

Eighth Annual Conference, Association of Australian Writing Programs, Sydney, 2003.

Poetics of Australian Space Conference, Sydney. ‘Configurations of the Palimpsest of Place, 2005.

Inaugural Conference of ASLE-ANZ, Melbourne. ‘Palilmpsest to Palliative Care: a ficto-critical proposition for the earth lover’, 2005.

Ninth Annual Conference, Association of Australian Writing Programs, Adelaide. ‘Some Considerations of the Relevance of the New Ecocritical Body of Theory to Both Writing Practice and the Teaching of Writing in Universities’, 2004.

Tenth Annual Conference, Association of Australian Writing Programs, Perth. ‘What’s the Link Between Writing Teaching and Publications Education?’, 2005.

‘2005ICPPTE’ Conference, Shanghai University of Science and Technology, Shanghai (China) ‘Australian University Publishing and Interdisciplinarity in Publications Education’, 2005.

Xth Bi-annual Conference, China-Australia Studies Association, ‘John Kinsella’s Pastoral Trilogy’, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, 2006.

10th Annual Conference of the Association of Writing Programs, Brisbane, ‘Engines Full Reverse: teacher bites bullet, the making of a PhD writing student’, 2006.

9th Biennial Conference of the European Australian Studies Association, ‘Feeling in the Dark’ and ‘Kinsella’s New Arcadia: anti-pastoral and ‘radical pastoral attacks on the Western traditions of the pastoral Eden in his Pastoral Trilogy’, Roskilde-Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007.

XIth  Bi-annual Conference, China-Australia Studies Association, with Ms Liu Pingping, ‘Chinese Perceptions of Australian Landscapes’, Beijing, 2008.

IVth Australasian-Asian Conference, Aussie Landscape—‘Love or Hate Relationship: an Ecocritcal Survey, 1788-2008’, Kandy. Sri Lanka, 2008.

EASA 2009 Conference, University of the Bealaric Islands, ‘Landscape in the Novels of Kim Scott’, Majorca (Spain), 2009.

XIIth Bi-annual Conference, China-Australia Studies Association, Kim Scott, Indigenous Novelist’s ‘That Deadman Dance’, East China Normal University, Shanghai, (China), October, 2010.

Globalisation Conference Hyderabad 2011

Patrick White Conference Hyderabad 2013

Deakin University Symposium December, 2013

XIIIrd Bi-annual Conference, China-Australia Studies Association, Windows on Western Wordlands, an E-Encyclopedia of Regional Literature of Western Australia.’ Mudanjiang Normal University, Mudanjiang, north China, July, 2014.

7th Annual Conference of the Asia-Pacific Writers and Translators, Bridging Cultures, “The Elusive Serpent: Snakes and Dragons in Australian Literature and their Associations with European and Asian Legends of the Dragon or Snake”, Singapore, July, 2014.

Symposium on Overseas Chinese Cultural Identity, Invited Poet, The Confucius Institute at The University of WA, 20-21 November, 2014.

Shanghai University for Science and Technology/ECU, ‘Becoming’ exhibition, October, 2013—Kandimalal (five framed visual art pieces in association with Dr Perdita Phillips