Thylazine: The Australian Journal of Arts, Ethics & Literature #10/thyla10k
AUSTRALIAN POETS SERIES 10
Brenda Saunders, Sam Green, Karen Knight, John Foulcher, Janine Baker,
Sandra Thibodeaux, Andrew Burke, Janice Bostok, Jeff Guess, Rosanna Licari
Selected by Coral Hull
Brenda Saunders
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Brenda Saunders (formerly known as Palma) is an Aboriginal artist, activist and writer. Her family are from the Wiradjuri nation in Central New South Wales, Australia. Her work is drawn from personal experience and politics as well as her knowledge of Aboriginal history and culture. Brenda is also a visual artist who uses digital imaging technologies to project current issues such as Aboriginal land rights and the social inequalities within the Aboriginal community of Australia. Her poetry was published in two anthologies in Sydney in 2002; From the Anabranch published by the Poets Union Inc. and Life in Gadigal Country, Gadigal Press, Sydney. Her ... |
[Above] Photo of Brenda Saunders by photographer unknown, 2002.
Sam Green
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Sam Green first started writing as a child, where he was truly inspired by the "skits" the scouts use to sing around the campfires. 'At school I was dyslexic. Things I wrote didn't make much sense, and I was always being told off by the teachers for using incorrect grammar,' Sam recalls. 'Then one teacher corrected my spelling and took the trouble to correct the way I wrote certain letters of the alphabet. He liked what I had written and wanted to pin it up on his wall. I was 12 at the time, it was the first time I had ever been praised for my work. 'Because songwriting does not rely a great deal on grammar, more from a creative side, this craft has give Sam a new scope to his life.' Sam ... |
[Above] Photo of Sam Green by photographer unknown, 2004.
Karen Knight
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Karen Knight's poetry continues to be published in Australian anthologies, newspapers and literary journals, including Blue Dog, Verandah, Sidewalk, Linq and Mattoid. She has also been published widely in UK and USA. With Sue Moss, Karen is the Co-Editor of Interior Despots - Running the Border, an anthology of women poets released by Pardalote Press in 2001. Her collections include Singing in the Grain (Walleah Press, 2001) and My Mother Has Become (Picaro Press, 2003). Karen has received two writer's development grants from Arts Tasmania to complete collections of poems, the most recent being Under the One Granite Roof - Poems for Walt Whitman (Pardalote Press, 2004) which relates to ... |
[Above] Photo of Karen Knight courtesy of The Mercury Newspaper, 2001.
John Foulcher
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John Foulcher has been writing and publishing poetry for nearly thirty years. He has published seven books of poetry, the most recent being The Honeymoon Snaps (Harper/Collins, 1996), Convertible (Indigo, 1999) and The Learning Curve (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2002). He is Head of Drama at Bishop Druitt College in Coffs Harbour. John Foulcher's books include; Light Pressure (Angus & Robertson, 1983), Pictures from the War (A & R, 1987), Paperweight (A & R, 1991), New and Selected Poems (Harper/Collins, 1993), The Honeymoon Snaps (Harper/Collins, 1996), Convertible ... |
[Above] Photo of John Foulcher by photographer unknown, year unknown.
Janine Baker
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Janine Baker is a South Australian mother, scientist, and poet (in no particular order!). She was born in Queensland, and raised as an itinerant, living in various cities, towns and on islands around Australia and New Guinea, for the first 2 decades of life. Environmental change, human isolation, and scales of time and space are recurring themes in her work. anine's favourite Australian poets are Bruce Dawe, Ian C. Smith, MTC Cronin, Jean Frances, and Richard Hillman. About 50 of Janine's poems have been published in various poetry magazines and journals (such as Spindrift and Poetrix), and a couple have appeared in the Friendly Street Reader ... |
[Above] Photo of Janine Baker by photographer unknown, 1989.
Sandra Thibodeaux
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Sandra Thibodeaux writes plays that sound like poetry and poems that perform like plays. Sandra has previously published one volume of poetry, Sonata for Solo Mother, whilst numerous national and international journals and anthologies have published her work. Sandra has performed her poetry extensively, both in Darwin, and in national and international arenas. She has been a guest poet at the Spring Poetry Festival, ACT, and the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, Bali. Sandra's work has been broadcast on ABC Radio (Northern Territory), Radio National's Poetica and Radio National's The Deep End. Sandra has written nine plays, six of which have been staged as part of the Darwin ... |
[Above] Photo of Sandra Thibodeaux by InFocus, 2002.
Andrew Burke
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Andrew Burke is an Australian poet who has lived most of his life on the west coast in Perth. Born in Melbourne in 1944, Burke's family moved west to expand the family business eighteen months later. In his teens, Burke read Kerouac and Ginsberg and other 'Beat' writers, and they gained his interest more than the Hardy and company he was studying at school. He started to ape their style in all he wrote, and published his first short story at 18. He has written on a daily basis ever since - stories, plays, poems, and - to feed wife and children - ads and videos, annual reports and press releases. Since 1990, Burke has taught creative writing and allied subjects at ... |
[Above] Photo of Andrew Burke by Miles Burke, 2004.
Janice Bostok
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Janice M. Bostok was born at Mullumbimby, NSW. Education: schooling at Mullumbimby, BA from University of Queensland. She has been published in many anthologies in Australia, Japan, the USA, England, Canada, Greece, Poland and Romania. In the 1970s she edited and published Tweed. Since then she has edited for Hobo, Paper Wasp, Scope, Yellow Moon, Red Moon (USA) and Stylus ezine. She co-edited The First Australian Haiku Anthology on the HaikuOz website. She also writes. and has published, short stories, non-fiction and general verse. She has given workshops, talks and been guest poet at Poetry Festivals in Australia and New Zealand. At Katikati in New ... |
[Above] Photo of Janice Bostok by Bruce Divine, 1995.
Jeff Guess
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Jeff Guess teaches English in country and metropolitan secondary schools, the Adelaide Institute of TAFE, and tutors at the University of South Australia. His first book Leaving Maps, published in 1984. Samela Harris (The Advertiser) has written of his latest collection Winter Grace 'Methinks he is the finest living Australian poet.' He has had eight collections published. Jeff has written two textbooks on teaching poetry and edited eight poetry anthologies. His poetry has been published widely. He has written a textbook for tertiary students entitled Writing Poetry, published by the Adelaide Institute of TAFE. There are entries for him in the ... |
[Above] Photo of Jeff Guess by photographer unknown, year unknown.
Rosanna Licari
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Rosanna Licari is a Queensland poet and editor of Stylus Poetry Journal. Her interests include haiku and its related forms, as well as page and performance poetry. Her haiku has been published in The First Australian Haiku Anthology (2003), and she recently collaborated with Queensland arranger/composer, Kenny Floyd to produce Chronicles of Desire: Fragments [Singapore Mix] a poetry and music CD based on the voices of women of myth and history including Frida Kahlo, the Emperor’s Concubine, Sappho of Lesbos and Medusa, exploring the themes of love and desire. In 2004 she performed at the ... |
[Above] Photo of Rosanna Licari by Jools Weller, 2002.
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