Australian Dictionary of Biography

8 December, 1926
Eagle Junction, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

6 August, 1995 (aged 68)
Bulleen, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

cancer (bowel)

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• Reed, John Harford (friend)
• Reed, Lelda Sunday (friend)
• Nolan, Sidney Robert (friend)
• Hester, Joy St Clair (friend)
• Harris, Maxwell Henley (collaborator)
• Murray-Smith, Stephen (collaborator)
• Collinson, Laurence Henry (collaborator)

• Chermside State School (Qld) (student)
• Windsor State School (Brisbane) (student, ?-1939)
• Brisbane State High School (student, 1940-1943)

• magazine/journal editor (1943-1946) Queensland, Australia
• poet (1943-1995) Victoria, Australia
• librarian (1952-1982) Victoria, Australia
• magazine/journal editor (1952-1955) Victoria, Australia
• art critic (1960-1995) Victoria, Australia
• literary critic (1960-1995) Victoria, Australia
• magazine/journal editor (1965-1993) Victoria, Australia

• Member of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1983)

• Barrett Reid poetry award (Overland) (eponym)
• Barrett Reid scholarship (State Library of Victoria) (eponym)

• Barjai magazine (co-editor, 1943-1946)
• National Book Council (member, 1973)
• Australia Council for the Arts (board member, 1974-1978)
• Overland (magazine) (editor, 1988-1993)

• State Library of Victoria (librarian, 1952-1982)