Danielle Shelley Carr

Background

Ethnicity: Ancestry, 1850s Gold Rush Australia, Irish, Scottish, Cornish and Jewish on father's side. Ossett, Yorkshire on mother's side (née Peace), Scottish, Irish, Cornish.

Danielle Carr was born on 11th September, 1970, in Melbourne, Australia, the daughter of award winning artist Gerald Carr, and teacher Cheryl Carr NEE Peace. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in Media Studies, majoring in Film, then a Master of Arts in Writing and Literature, at Deakin University. She authored the thesis, Psychological Reflections on Post-Modernist Gothic Literature, which includes an analysis of her stories, The Conservatory, and The Lady of Tangiers, based in psychological theory of Literary Studies. She currently studies French Literature at RMIT University.

Education

Danielle Carr attended Bayswater North Primary School, in Victoria, where her mother was teacher of junior primary, during the 1970s. She attended secondary school at Aquinas College, Ringwood, and won First Prize for poetry at the age of fourteen, in a national competition in writing judged by acclaimed journalist and head of the Australian Film Commission, Phillip Adams.

Career

Awarded first prize in poetry at the age of fourteen nationally, Danielle Carr wrote novels from the age of twelve. Her novel Anjelican Sunrise is based on her memories of the farm where her mother was raised in Cohuna, Victoria. Her collection of poetry, Ellipse includes ballads, epics and villanelle. Blom - A Woman's Journey is a novel in verse. She has extended her writing to song lyrics, with The Red Room, from Jane Eyre the Musical, and into Indian music with Shanti Shahram, which she heard in a dream, sung by George Harrison. She edited a volume of collected Australian writing of academics, entitled 'Australis' which includes her short story, 'A View to Wonder'. She is also the author of Blood for St Valentine, a thriller based on true crime stories set in Melbourne.

Works

• book

  • Danielle Shelley Carr

    (Austlit)

• epic

  • Ellypsus-an epic

• French ballade

  • Ballade of the Wray Witch

• poem

  • The Doll House

  • Cinema of Sky

  • Linear Neon

  • Voices In The Dark

  • The Immortal Canvas

  • Reprised Legend

  • True Stories-Demon in the Circle

• poetry

  • The Evolution of Ourselves

  • Arc of Sky

  • The Love State

• song

  • Sapphi and the Symphonious Garden

• sonnet

  • Sonnet to a Seraph

• verse

  • Captured (The journal of Dariah Drakenshire)

• Villanelle

  • Villanelle of the Grey Gypsy

• Other Work

  • Times Past Recreated Like Life

  • Future Past

  • Our Street Ended in Sky

  • The Universal Fiddle

  • To Arietta

  • The Wedding at the Church of Lost Lament

  • Como House

  • The Red Room (Jane Eyre - A Musical)

  • The Eternal Dreamscape

  • The Apothecary

  • Farthest Antipodes

  • The Land In Between

  • Dowager

  • The Red Room (Jane Eyre)

  • Shanti Shahram

  • Interim

  • The Hidden Garden

  • Threshold of Night

  • The Cold and the Quiet

Interests

• Dance, Art, foreign languages

• Philosophers & Thinkers

  Carl Jung

• Writers

  John Fowles, Thomas Hardy

• Artists

  Pablo Picasso, Jean Millet, Paul Gauguin

Connections

Single, never married.

Father:

Gerald Carr

References

• Notes on Ellipse-a collection of poetry By Sharmeen Razvi - English student, Loyola University of Chicago, U.S.A. A quote from Notes on Ellipse- a collection of poetry, by Sharmeen Razvi - on 'The Eternal Dreamscape' - This poem is a beautiful combination of history and the arts. The author draws a comparison between the location she discusses in the poem, Australia, and Africa to get the readers thinking about creation and origin of man.
  2016