Stephen House

Stephen house

Stephen House is an award winning playwright, poet and actor. He’s won two Awgie Awards (Australian Writer’s Guild), an Adelaide Fringe Award, Rhonda Jancovich Poetry Award for Social Justice, Goolwa Poetry Cup, Feast Short Story Prize and more. He’s been shortlisted for Lane Cove Literary Award, Overland’s Fair Australia Fiction Prize, Patrick White Playwright and Queensland Premier Drama Awards, a Greenroom acting Award and more. He’s received Australia Council literature residencies to Ireland and Canada, an India Asialink literature residency, and a Tasmanian Writer’s residency.  

“I’m a nomad and travel widely most of the time (until COVID); usually writing and performing as I go. Poetry, monologue, performance and the combination of all have been my main art-forms the last decade. When I saw “this breath is not mine to keep” call out, it grabbed me. The brief made me reflect on the current state of the planet, future, fragility of nature; and how much is in our control and how much isn’t. Questions about the planet’s survival and the uneasy chaos residing in our now lead me to write my poem, “over-kill”.

Find his poetry for _this breath here: