{{Short description|New Zealand and Australian poet, playwright, and short story writer}} {{for|the American political consultant|Eric Beach (political consultant)}} {{EngvarB|date=May 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} '''Eric Beach''' (1947 – November 2024),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eric Beach |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A9168 |access-date=2025-02-12 |website=AustLit: Discover Australian Stories |publisher=The University of Queensland}}</ref> was a New Zealand and Australian poet, playwright, and short story writer.
Born in New Zealand, Beach lived in Tasmania and in Victoria from 1972.<ref>''Australian Poets and Their Works'', by William Wilde, Oxford University Press, 1996</ref> He was active in the Australian Performance Poetry scene, performing at workshops, readings and events around Australia.<ref>http://www.thylazine.org/directory/directb/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005142433/http://www.thylazine.org/directory/directb/ |date=5 October 2008 }} The Thylazine Foundation: Arts, Ethics and Literature.</ref>
His publication ''Weeping for Lost Babylon'' won the 1996 Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize, and was joint winner of the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/beach-eric/|title = Australian Poetry Library}}</ref>
He lived in Minyip, Victoria in Australia.
==Publications== * ''Weeping for Lost Babylon'' (HarperCollins, 1996) * ''Red Heart My Country'' (Pardalote Press, 2000) * ''Saint Kilda Meets Hugo Ball'' (Gargoyles Press, 1974) * ''In Occupied Territory'' (The Saturday Centre, 1977) * ''A Photo of Some People in a Football Stadium'' (Overland, 1978) * ''Hey Hey Brass Buttons'' (1990)
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