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Haskell has regularly delivered papers at academic conferences and to community groups, and he has given many invited readings of his own poetry, at various venues in many locations, including
Armidale, Brisbane, Cairns, Canberra, Perth, Sydney, Townsville, England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India,
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He also won the
Western Australia Premier’s Prize for Poetry and the A A Phillips Prize for distinguished contributions to Australian literature from the Association for the Study of Australian Literature. He was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Western Australia.
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and worked as an accountant or lecturer in business studies for almost a decade, in Sydney and London. He travelled and lived in Europe and North
America for two years from late-1970, marrying in London in 1972. He and his wife, Rhonda, who was also from Sydney, returned to the city in late-1972.
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Haskell and Rhonda had two sons. Rhonda was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in June 2006 and
Haskell took early retirement in July 2011; she died in February 2012. His book of poetry, *Ahead of Us* (2016), describes the cancer experience. His next collection, *And Yet…* (2020), includes poems that
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in 1973, studying
English and Philosophy; during this time, he lectured and tutored in Commerce at UNSW. He broke with accounting when he became a Tutor in English at Sydney University in 1977, completing his PhD (on W B Yeats) in English in 1980 (awarded in 1981). He was later Emeritus
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in 1984. He eventually became a
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He has been a visiting professor at universities in
England (Cambridge University), France, Germany, Hong Kong, The Philippines (University of The Philippines), Singapore, Thailand, and the USA (Georgetown University).
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Haskell was born into a working-class family in the western suburbs of Sydney; his father was a carpenter and his mother a florist. He attended primary schools in
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2003: shortlisted, New South Wales
Premier's Literary Awards — Gleebooks Prize for Critical Writing, for *Attuned to Alien Moonlight: The Poetry of Bruce Dawe*
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Kenneth Slessor: Poetry, Essays, War Despatches, War Diaries, Journalism, Autobiographical Material and Letters
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Myths, Heroes and Anti-Heroes: Essays on the Literature and Culture of the Asia-Pacific Region
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Tilting at Matilda: Literature, Aborigines, Women and the Church in Contemporary Australia
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Beyond Good And Evil? Essays on the Literature and Culture of the Asia-Pacific Region
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Ireland, Italy, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, The Philippines, and the USA.
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Wordhord: A Critical Selection of Contemporary Western Australian Poetry
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What Are You Doing Here? Selected Poems (The Philippines, 2015)
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Poems 2013: Volume of the Australian Poetry Members Anthology
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Westerly Looks to Asia: A Selection from Westerly 1956-1992
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Sightings: poems for International PEN 62nd World Congress
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