Thylazine: The Australian Journal of Arts, Ethics & Literature #8/thyla8k
AUSTRALIAN POETS SERIES 8
Jack Drake, Joyce Parkes, Graham Catt, Susan Hawthorne, Kevin Gillam, Jennifer Compton, Warrick Wynne, Malobi Sinha, Andrew Taylor, Pamela Sidney
Selected by Coral Hull
Jack Drake
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National recognition came in 2001 when Jack Drake won the Australian Bush Poet of the Year Quest run by Asthma N.S.W. and the Womens Weekly magazine. Jack's two C.D.s The Cattle Dog's Revenge and Dinkum Poetry have both gained nominations for the Australian Bush Laureate Awards and after self publishing four books, he was picked up by Central Queensland University Press. His first professionally published book of Ballads and Yarns The Cattle Dog's Revenge was released in July 2003 and is in its second print. A second National Award was won in 2004 with the book The Cattle Dog's Revenge earning a Golden Gum Leaf Trophy from the Australian Bush Laureate Awards for the ... |
[Above] Photo of Jack Drake by Stella Matheson Drake, 2001.
Joyce Parkes
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Joyce Parkes has published poetry in the following; Canberra Times, ACT; Lip-Service, WA; Breakaway, WA; Artlook, WA; POETRY Australia, NSW; Fling!, Vic.; The Weekend Australian, NSW; Overland, Vic; Sepia, England; Walker on the Top Rail, WA; Westerly, WA; Patterns, WA; Fremantle Arts Review, WA; Wordhord, WA; Celebrations, WA; The Road of Poems and Borders, Finland; (M)other Tongues, Canada; The Sydney Morning Herald, NSW; The Phoenix Review, ACT; The Midland Reporter, WA; Social Images, ACT; Stet, SA; Pen International, England; Kalla Yeedip Arts, WA; The Western Review, WA; The Western Word, ... |
[Above] Photo of Joyce Parkes by Jody Driscoll, 2002.
Graham Catt
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Graham Catt was born in the UK. He arrived in Australia with his family in 1967. His interest in creative arts began in with cartooning, poetry, short stories and pop music. He spent most of the 1980s writing and performing his own music. He has been a member of Adelaide’s long established Friendly Street Poets since 1996, and currently serves on the Friendly Street Committee as Treasurer and Website Administrator. In 2002, he co-edited Blue: Friendly Street 27 with Kim Mann. Blue was launched in March 2003 by Tom Shapcott. In 2000, Graham left his employer of 19 years to devote more time and energy to creative ventures. He has since completed a collection of short stories and a novel ... |
[Above] Photo of Graham Catt by Lucy Catt, 2002
Susan Hawthorne
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Susan Hawthorne is a poet, novelist, academic and circus performer. Her books include a collection of poems, Bird (1999), a novel, The Falling Women (1992/2003), Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation and Bio/diversity (2002) based on her PhD as well as numerous anthologies, the latest of which are September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives (2002, co-edited with Bronwyn Winter) and Cat Tales: The Meaning of Cats in Women's Lives (2003, co-edited with Jan Fook and Renate Klein). She is a founding member of the Performing Older Women's Circus, co-founder with Renate Klein of Spinifex Press and a Research Associate in the Department of Communication, Language and Cultural ... |
[Above] Photo of Susan Hawthorne by NACED, 2003.
Kevin Gilliam
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Kevin Gillam is a West Australian writer, cellist, orchestral conductor and secondary-school music teacher. Since completing a Graduate Diploma in English (Creative Writing) at Curtin University, he has had poems published in numerous Australian, New Zealand, Canadian and U.K. journals, including Meanjin, Overland, Coppertales, SideWalk, Western Review, Five Bells, Southern Review and Famous Reporter. In 2000 he was Emerging-Writer-in-Residence at Tom Collins' House, and was granted the same position at the Katherine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre in 2002. His first volume of poetry, entitled Other Gravities and published by SunLine Press (Perth, R.R.P. $25, hardback) ... |
[Above] Photo of Kevin Gillam by photographer unknown, 2001.
Jennifer Compton
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Jennifer Compton was born in New Zealand and emigrated to Australia in 1972. She has been publishing poetry in magazines etc. since the age of 14 in New Zealand and Australia, and more recently in the UK, USA and Canada. Her first book of poetry From The Other Woman was published as part of the Five Islands new Poets series in 1993. In 1995 she was awarded the NSW Ministry for the Arts Fellowship. In the same year her poem 'Blue Leaves' won the Robert Harris Poetry Prize. Another stage play, The Big Picture, written with the aid of a grant from the Australian Council for ... |
[Above] Photo of Jennifer Compton by Harvey O'Sullivan, 1994.
Warrick Wynne
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Warrick Wynne has been writing poetry for about fifteen years and has been published in a wide variety of literary journals both in Australia and overseas. He won the Red Earth Poetry Prize in 1992 and has been a runner up in several other poetry awards including the Mattara Poetry Prize administered by the University of Newcastle. Warrick is a member of the Fellowship of Victorian Writers (FAW) and the Poets' Union. Warrick teaches English and Literature at Toorak College, a K-12 school for girls on the Mornington Peninsula, forty kilometres south of Melbourne in ... |
[Above] Photo of Warrick Wynne by Warrick Wynne, 2000.
Malobi Sinha
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I was born in India, but grew up in Kenya from the age of 3 years. It was a time of freedom, filled with trips to Mombasa, a town by the sea. We lived in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, for 10 years. In 1983 there was an attempted coup, and my Dad said it was again time to move. He was an Electrical Engineer, and got job offers from a few countries. We came to Australia in 1983, when I was 13. Now Australia is home. I have been here 19 years. I completed my Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering degree from Monash University in 1995. I worked as a Systems Engineer for about 7 ... |
[Above] Photo of Malobi Sinha by Ian Hood, 2002.
Andrew Taylor
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Andrew Taylor was born in Warnambool, Victoria, and is a graduate of Melbourne University, from which he holds a Doctor of Letters. He is the author of twelve books of poetry, a critical study of Australian poetry, the libretti of two operas (with the composer Ralph Middenway), and co-translator with Beate Josephi of an anthology of poetry by four German and Austrian women poets. He has also compiled several anthologies, and written numerous academic articles. He was regional winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1986, and of the Western Australian Premier's Prize for poetry in 1995, and is a Member of the Order of Australia. He has lived and taught at universities in ... |
[Above] Photo of Andrew Taylor by Sarah Josephi-Taylor, 2003.
Pamela Sidney
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Pamela was born and grew up in Brighton, Melbourne. Her performing/creative life began 1963 - Kenwood Theatre Studio Hawthorn - director, Ken Woodward. Stayed 5 years as principal actress, playing Shakespeare, Shaw, Bolt, Rattigan, Barrie. Did TV - Homicide, Hunter, Division 4. John Riddaell's Command Performers Theatre Company Richmond - Rodgers + Hammerstein musicals. 1974 - sang in Marjorie Spicer's rock opera 'Paul', Ballarat - Camberwell - Sydney Opera House. Auditioned successfully JC. Willamson's 'Irene' 1975, played Her Majesty's Theatre Sydney, 8 months. 1983 - Introduced to poetry at Café Jammin', run then by 'Tom the Street Poet'. Founded 1990, with Ken Smeaton ... |
[Above] Photo of Pamela Sidney and Barry by photographer unknown, year unknown.
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