Patrick Alexander (poet)

Patrick Macgillicuddy Alexander (20 March 1940 – 21 September 2005) was an Irish-born poet who settled in Australia.

He remained there, except for nine years in Sydney in the late sixties and early seventies.

He gave several readings of Blake, of the pre-Raphaelites, and of Japanese Poetry in Translation at the National Gallery of Victoria.

In honour of his contribution, the Festival has named the spoken performance prize the Patrick Alexander Memorial Award.

His papers are held by the State Library of Victoria, and include two travel diaries belonging to the writer Una Maud Lyle Smyth.