Komninos Zervos
http://www.gu.edu.au/ppages/k_zervos
performance poet, 1985 – 1995, taking his poetry to schools, community groups, hotels, music venues, prisons, coffee lounges and universities, radio and television and now the internet.
Komninos, published poet, two adult collections of poetry with the University of Queensland Press, 1990 1994, a collection of poetry for children illustrated by Peter Viska and published by Oxford University Press, 1992, and a hard cover illustrated children’s picture book published by Harper/Collins, 1991.
In 1992 Komninos received the Australian Human Rights Award for Literature and in 1991 was awarded the Australia Council’s Ros Bower award for outstanding achievement in community arts.
In 1995 Komninos completed a Masters of Arts in Creative Writing at the University of Queensland, he authored a cd-rom of cyberpoetry for his dissertation. He is presently a PhD candidate.
In 1998 Komninos travelled to London to be Writer in Residence at Artec a multimedia training and resource centre in Islington where he authored a cd-rom, ‘cyberpoetry underground’.
Komninos Zervos convenes and lectures in the CyberStudies Major, School of Arts, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland.
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