Louise Crisp

Louise Crisp (born 1957) is a contemporary Australian poet.
Louise Crisp lives in East Gippsland (Victoria) with her partner and two daughters. Her first collection was The luminous ocean, a shared volume with Valery Wilde's In the Half-Light. She has published several more books of poetry and worked, among other occupations, as a fire tower watcher on which she has written in Pearl & sea fed. This volume was shortlisted for the 1995 C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry.

Poetry

• The luminous ocean. (Friendly Street Poets, 1988)
• Pearl & sea fed. (New Zealand: Hazard Press, 1994) ISBN 0-908790-79-1
• Ruby Camp: A Snowy River series. (Melbourne: Spinifex Press, 1998) ISBN 1-875559-83-3
• Three golden fish. (Wind and Water Press, 2004) ISBN 0-9585422-8-7