Biography

Born in Sydney

Sydney

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 to John Paul Aslanides and Olive Emma Browne, Timoshenko Aslanides studied music at the University of Sydney

University of Sydney

The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

 and economics at The Australian National University. He began writing poetry after he moved to Canberra

Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...

 in 1972. His first book of poems, The Greek Connection, was awarded the British Commonwealth Poetry Prize for 1978 for the best first book of poetry in English published the previous year in all the countries of the British Commonwealth, excluding England; he was the first Australian to win this prize.

Timoshenko Aslanides has worked as a full-time, professional poet since July 1985, when he resigned from the Australian Public Service.

Awards

• British Commonwealth Poetry Prize, 1978.
• Australian Bicentennial Literary Awards, (joint second prize), 1988
• The Canberra Times Artist of the Year, 2002.

Publications

• The Greek Connection, The author, Canberra 1977. 52pp.
• Passacaglia and Fugue, The author, Canberra 1979 and 1980 (two editions). 50pp
• Goulburn and Environs: A comprehensive guide with Jenny Stewart, Canberra, Olive Press, 1983. 152pp.
• One Hundred Riddles, Angus and Robertson, 1984. 72pp.
• Canberra and the Australian Capital Territory, with Jenny Stewart, Kenthurst, N.S.W., Kangaroo Press, 1988
• Australian Things, Ringwood, Victoria, Penguin, 1990. 72pp.
• Australian Alphabet, Springwood, N.S.W.: Butterfly Books, 1992. 78pp.
• AnniVersaries: 366 Linked Poems, one for every day of the Australian year, Rose Bay, N.S.W., Brandl & Schlesinger, 1998. 454pp.
• A Calendar of Flowers: Selected Poems 1975-2000, Wollongong, N.S.W.: Five Islands Press, 2001. 114pp.
• Occasions for words: poems for birth, marriage, death and much between, Adelaide, SA: Wakefield Press
  Wakefield Press
  Wakefield Press is an independent book publishing company in Australia, based in the Adelaide suburb of Kent Town, South Australia. They publish an eclectic list diverse in subject, tone and point, with strong suits in true stories, gastronomy, history, literature and gift books.-History:Wakefield...
  
  2006. 196pp.
• Ruminations: Two Books of Lyric Mysticism, Port Adelaide, S. Aust.: Ginninderra Press, 2008. 72pp.

External links

• Official website
• Six poems at Thylazine