Timoshenko Aslanides

Timoshenko Aslanides (24 December 1943 – 6 January 2020) was an Australian poet.

Biography Timoshenko Aslanides was born on Christmas Eve, 1943, in the Crown Street Women's Hospital, in Sydney, to John Paul Aslanides (1901–1962), a 1925 immigrant to Australia from the Pontic Greek community in Kerasus (on the Black Sea coast) and Olive Emma Browne (1910–1993), daughter of a pastoralist family from Lockhart, New South Wales. Aslanides graduated BA (Music) from the University of Sydney in 1967 and B.Ec from the Australian National University in 1976. Though he felt that most, if not all of his poetry has its origin in love, the context of this affection is the celebration of the natural and built environments of Australia, and the history and imaginative genius of the people.

Timoshenko Aslanides worked as a full-time, professional poet from July 1985, when he resigned from the 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 2006. 196pp. Ruminations: Two Books of Lyric Mysticism, Port Adelaide, S. Aust.: Ginninderra Press, 2008. 72pp. Collected Sonnets, 1974-2004, Port Adelaide, S. Aust.: Ginninderra Press, 2010. 86pp. Stop Words, Ormond, Vic.: Hybrid Publishers, 2011. 87pp. Versatility or, a justification for poetry, Ormond, Vic.: Hybrid Publishers, 2013. 30pp. Includes CD of first performance. Temperament: twenty-four love poems, one in each key, Ormond, Vic.: Hybrid Publishers, 2013. 38pp. Letterature: Verse letters from Australian women, Ormond, Vic.: Hybrid Publishers, 2014. 80pp. Troubadour: poetry and original music for violin, Ormond, Vic.: Hybrid Publishers, 2016. 77pp.