Tina Giannoukos

Tina Giannoukos has published two collections of poetry. Her second collection, Bull Days, was shortlisted in the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and longlisted for the 2017 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. She has a PhD in creative writing from the University of Melbourne, where she taught in the creative writing and in the publishing and communications programs. She has lived and worked in China, teaching at the Beijing University of Technology.

'Two new poetry series: MPU and the year of the pandemic' by Tina Giannoukos

Book Talk • 14 December 2020

When I became editor-in-chief of Melbourne Poets Union Inc (MPU) in January 2019, there was an opportunity to take its publishing program in new and exciting directions. MPU, a Melbourne-based arts organisation whose raison d’être ever since its inception in 1977 has been poetry, had published anthologies and chapbooks. The Union Poets Series of chapbooks was a staple of its annual publishing p ... (read more)