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Jacinta Aboukhater (D.O.B. - ) Jacinta Aboukhater is a Melbourne writer. Her work has been published in the anthologies Motherlode, Hot Type, Australian Verse: An Oxford Anthology and New Music: Contemporary Australian Poetry.    Photo of poet by photographer, year. Jacinta Aboukhater's publications include: Poetry: Motherlode, (publisher unknown, year unknown), Hot Type, (publisher unknown, year unknown), Australian Verse: An Oxford Anthology, (publisher unknown, year unknown), New Music: Contemporary Australian Poetry, (publisher unknown, year unknown).

Annemaree Adams (D.O.B. - ) Annemaree Adams lives in Dulwich Hill, near Sydney, and works at Sydney University.    Photo of Annemaree Adams by photographer unknown, year unknown. Annemaree Adams's publications include: Poetry: The Dogs, (Five Islands Press, year unknown)

Arthur Henry Adams (1872 - 1936) Arthur Henry Adams was born in Lawrence, New Zealand, and educated at Otago University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and began studying law. He abandoned law, and worked as a journalist in Wellington, where he began contributing poetry to The Bulletin. He moved to Sydney in 1898, and took up a position as literary secretary to J.C. Williamson. In 1900 Adams travelled to China to cover the Boxer Rebellion as a journalist for several New Zealand papers. He would later return to New Zealand before moving to London in 1902, where he published several works including London Streets. He returned to Australia in 1906, he took over from A. G. Stephens as editor of the Bulletin's Red Page until 1909. In addition to his poetry, Adams wrote both plays and novels.    Photo of Arthur Henry Adams by photographer, year. Arthur Henry Adams's publications include: Maoriland: and Other Verses, (publisher unknown, 1899), Tussock Land, (publisher unknown, 1904), London Streets, (publisher unknown, 1906), Galahad Jones, (publisher unknown, 1910), A Touch of Fantasy, (publisher unknown, 1912), Collected Verses, (publisher unknown, 1913), Grocer Greatheart, (publisher unknown, 1915), Australian Nursery Rimes, (publisher unknown, 1917), The Australians, (publisher unknown, 1920), Fifty Nursery Rhymes with Music, (publisher unknown, 1924) and A Man's Life, (publisher unknown, 1929).

Robert Adamson (D.O.B. - ) Robert Adamson was born in Sydney, New South Wales. As a youth, he was sent to the Gosford Boys Home for juvenile misdemeanours, and while in jail in his 20s, he discovered his gift for poetry. In the late 1960s, he was a leading figure in the New Australian Poetry movement, was editor of New Poetry and founded Prism Books. With Dorothy Hewett, he was editor and director of Big Smoke Books, and later founded paper Bark Press in order to publish Hewett's Alice in Wormland. Adamson has received the NSW Victorian State Literary Award; The Victorian State Literary Award; The National Book Council's Banjo Award; The Grace Levin Prize for Poetry. He lives near the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales.    Robert Adamson by Jenni Mitchell, 1998. Robert Adamson's publications include: Poetry: Canticles on the Skin, (publisher unknown, 1970), The Rumour, (publisher unknown, 1971), Swamp Riddles, (publisher unknown, 1974), Cross the Border, (publisher unknown, 1977), Selected Poems, (publisher unknown, 1977), Where I Come From, (publisher unknown, 1979), The Law at Heart's Desire, (publisher unknown, 1982), The Clean Dark, (publisher unknown, 1989), Selected Poems, (publisher unknown, 1970-1989), Waving To Hart Crane, (publisher unknown, 1994). Prose: Zimmer's Essay, (fiction with Bruce Hansford) (publisher unknown, 1974), Theatre I-XIX, (publisher unknown, 1976), Wards of State, (autobiographical collection of prose and poetry), (publisher unknown, 1992). Anthology (Ed): Australian Writing Now, edited with Manfred Jurgensen, (publisher unknown, 1988).

Ric Adamson (1959 - ) Ric Adamson has been writing poetry since he was 12. Those first poems were written in Seattle, USA, and were some lyrics about boys meeting girls written to melodies by a childhood friend who was yet to learn how to play his guitar. This budding song partnership was broken up when his family emigrated to Australia. The next poem he wrote was when he was 28 and living in Perth and was something to do with waking up drunk under a bush in the rain. It was accepted by a magazine that went under before it could publish his poem. He next wrote a poem at the age of 32 after moving to Sydney and hasn't looked back. He has done many things in his life, many types of work and play, but poetry is the thing he likes the best. His poetic influences are chiefly American: William Carlos Williams, William S Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Richard Brautigan, Jack Gilbert, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski - but also the Japanese haiku masters, Basho and Issa, as well as Wittgenstein, Kafka and Dostoyevsky. And the art of Marc Chagall. Ric Adamson's poems tend to be humourous, hopeful, offbeat and beat. He is amazed by the small details of life and how those small details can overwhelm us at any time.    Photo of Ric Adamson by photographer unknown, year unknown. Ric Adamson's publications include: Poetry: New Poets 5, (Five Islands Press, Australia, 1998), A Light in the Dark, (Spotlight Poets, United Kingdom, 2001), The Firedog Sings, Poems : 1989 to 2004 (Tuba Press, United Kingdom, 2005).

David Ades (D.O.B. - )

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Tamsin Ainslie (D.O.B. - )

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Adam Aitken (1960 - ) Adam Aitken was born in London. His mother was born in South Thailand, and in Bangkok she met an Australian on business in 'the far east', and married him in a London registry. Adam has been a poetry editor, a reviewer, and teaches English as a Second Language. He is now completing a Doctorate in Creative Arts at the University of Technology, Sydney.    Photo of Adam Aitken by Jenni Mitchell, 2000. Adam Aitken's publications include: Poetry: Letter to Marco Polo, (Island Press, 1985), In One House, (Angus and Robertson, 1996), Crossing Lake Toba, (Salt Publishing, 1999), Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles (Brandl and Schlesigner, 2000).

Chris Aitken (D.O.B. - )

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Jordie Albiston (1961 - ) Jordie Albiston was born in Melbourne. Her first poetry collection Nervous Arcs, won first prize in the Mary Gilmore Award, second in the Anne Elder Award, and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Award. Her most recent collection, The Hanging of Jean Lee, explores the life and death of the last woman hanged in Australia (1951). Jordie received the Dinny O'Hearn Memorial Fellowship in 1997, and was original editor of the poetry e-zine Divan. She holds a PhD in literature, and has two teenage children. She is currently writing full-time on an Australia Council grant.    Photo of Jordie Albiston by Jenni Mitchell, 1998. Jordie Albiston's publications include: Poetry: Nervous Arcs (Spinifex Press, 1995), Botany Bay Document: A Poetic History of the Women of Botany Bay (Black Pepper, 1996), The Hanging of Jean Lee (Black Pepper, 1998).

Kaye Aldenhoven (D.O.B. - ) Kaye Aldenhoven has lived and worked in the Northern Territory for many years. PressPress published Skin, a chap book in 2004. This includes poems that focus on her family's experiences in Wailpiri country at Yuendumu. In 2001, she self-published a collection of poetry inspired by Kakadu and western Arnhemland, titled, In My Husband’s Country. Kaye has been writing for many years and her poetry has been published in various anthologies and journals including, Bugs and Bliss, Northern Perspective and Landmark: Poetry from the Northern Territory. In 1993, she won the NT Literary Awards Red Earth Poetry Award. Kaye has read her poems on ABC radio, and in a variety of live forums: Darwin, Shoalhaven Poetry Festival, Wordstorm - NT Writers’ Festival. She enjoyed being a guest at Tasmanian Poetry Festival, 2006.    Photo of Kaye Aldenhoven courtesy of the NT Writers Centre, 2001. Kaye Aldenhoven's publications include: Poetry: In My Husband’s Country, (Environmental Media, 2001).

Gregory Alexander (D.O.B. - )

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Patrick Alexander (1940 - 2005) Respected Melbourne poet and spoken-word artist Patrick Alexander has died from a heart attack while walking near his terrace home in Fitzroy. A heavy smoker who suffered from emphysema, he was 65. Alexander is the only artist to have produced an event for every Melbourne Fringe festival since the festival began in 1983, and he was made a life honorary member of Fringe for his contributions, the only person to be accorded the honour. Furthermore, the Melbourne Fringe has decided that the festival award for spoken word performance will be called the Patrick Alexander Memorial Award. Alexander frequently read poetry by William Blake and Constantine Cavafy at the National Gallery of Victoria, and he was a featured reader at Melbourne poetry venues such as the Rochester Castle, The Perseverance, Monsalvat, The Spinning Room and the Dan O'Connell Hotel. He also frequently sang with the Paul Williamson Combo at The Rainbow Hotel to close the show. He is particularly remembered for his renditions there of Stormy Monday. Patrick Macgillicuddy Alexander was born in Dublin in 1940, one of two sons to Enid and Hugh. His father had a successful career in the British Foreign Office and was part of the team that cracked the Enigma code in World War 11. He was also a chess grand master and the British chess champion in the 1930's. Hugh's grandfather was James Macgillicuddy, one of the leading miners involved in the revolt at the Eureka stockade.    Photo of Patrick Alexander by photographer unknown, year unknown. From 1946 until 1959, Patrick Alexander lived in London, where he received some training as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. It was during this period that he began to write poetry. He arrived in Melbourne in 1960 and, apart from eight years in Sydney, lived there. Patrick had a prodigious memory that was a sign of great intelligence, but the bi-polar disorder he developed as a teenager meant his life could either be a fearless walk along a tightrope or a fall into the darkest of chasms. Dressed in large, colourful ties and wearing a brooch on a stylish jacket, Patrick was a loved Fitzroy character. His greatest luxury was having coffee with other local artists in Gertrude Street. " 'Should' is a word that we don't use in this kindergarten" was one of his favourite sayings. He died less than a week before his scheduled appearance at the 2005 Melbourne Fringe Festival in a performance titled Blake and the Romantics, so his friends decided that the event would become a tribute. Almost 150 Melbourne poets and artists attended this event in Fitzroy and shared their memories of Alexander. There were tears, old Irish songs and copious amounts of alcohol. Live recordings of his at past Melbourne readings were played- recordings that included included his own poetry and from the Songs of Experience by William Blake. Patrick Alexander published four books of his own poetry, including The Weight of the Glass (Earthdance, 1999) and Images, Reflections: gathering tributes (Earthdance 1995). His poetry was also published in The Age and many literary journals, and he will be remembered for his great artistic knowledge that became an invaluable resource for many young writers. Alexander's passing adds to a list of Australian poets who have died in recent years. They include Shelton Lea, Amanda Wilson, Sandon McLeod, Dorothy Hewett, Doris Leadbetter, Adrian Rawlins, Stephen Masture and Bruce Beaver. Patrick is survived by his niece, Helen, and two nephews, Conel and Dermot, and sister-in-law Traute. Peter Davis (The Age : Sat, October 1, 2005). A CD is called The Dragon Sings and has recordings of Patrick singing songs by Rogers/ Hart and also Marvell/ Strachey/ Link. It also has him performing his own poetry as well as poetry by W. Blake, C. Cavafy, E. Lear, E.E. Cummings, C. Mew, W. Shakespeare. It contains dedications to the late Australian poets Stephen Masture and Vicki Viidikas. Guitar instrumentals by Pat's Melbourne Fringe co-performer Paul Hughan. The CD has been digitally mastered. If anyone would like to buy a copy of the CD The Dragon Sings with cover photograph of a smiling Patrick, please contact: peterddavis5@hotmail.com Profits from this CD are being used to produce a final chapbook of Patrick's last unpublished poems. Patrick Alexander's publications include: Poetry: Thrown Shadows, (publisher unknown, 1976), Effects of Remembrance, (Earthdance, 1994), Images, Reflections Gathering Tributes, (Earthdance, 1995), The Weight of the Glass, (Earthdance, 1999) and Images, Reflections: gathering tributes (Earthdance 1995).

Ali Alizadeh (1976 - ) Born in Teheran. Migrated to Australia in 1991. His first English poem performed and published in 1994. Graduated with Honours in Creative Arts from Griffith University in 1998. He's taught writing and adult literacy, worked as a delivery driver and mural painter, and currently lives in Melbourne, studying a PhD in Professional Writing at Deakin University. His poems have been published in journals and performed as spoken word. He won the Verandah 2000 Poetry Prize. He's directed short films and written plays including Irene's Inquisition, Melbourne Fringe Festival 2001. Areas of research and interest: the epic and narrative poetry, medieval history and Joan of Arc, spirituality and dissidence, Persian poetry and Melbourne spoken word.    Photo of Ali Alizadeh by Safoura Alizadeh, 2000. Ali Alizadeh's publications include: Poetry: Elixir: a story in poetry (Grendon Press, 2002), Eyes in Times of War, (Salt Publishing, 2006). Ali Alizadeh can be contacted at Email: alializadeh3 (át) yahoo (dót) com (dót) au

James Alexander Allen (1889 - 1956)

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J. Alex Allen (1889 - ????)

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Daevid Allen (1938 - ) Australian `beatnik' poet and musician Daevid Allen was well known in Europe in the 1960s and 70s, where he travelled to further his career. Music became his main creative focus - in the 60s he wrote the score for a stage production of William S Burroughs' The Ticket That Exploded, and joined a group of Canterbury musicians called Soft Machine. In the psychedelic era of the late 60s, Soft Machine was in the forefront of a musical movement that included Pink Floyd. Allen moved to Paris after visa problems in the UK, and recorded two solo albums. In 1970, he formed the band Gong, going under the names of Dingo Virgin and Bert Camembert as the mood took him. He left Gong in 1974 to record more solo albums, and returned to Australia in 1984 to form a new band, the Ex. In 1988 he returned to the UK to reform Gong, and continues to record albums, better known in the UK and Europe than they are in Australia. Over the years, Allen has released a number of albums and singles under various band names. His poetry Dvd Gong@Monsterrat & Other Stories, includes six poetry based short films as well as historical performances on film by Daevid with his bands: Soft Machine and Gong.    Photo of Daevid Allen by Howie Cooke, year unknown. Daevid is currently living in the Byron Bay area and also performs overseas and is eternally available for performance poetry gigs. Daevid Allen can be contacted at Email: daevideo (át) aapt (dót) net (dót) au  Go to Daevid Allen's website and Go to Gas Publications

Pamela Allen (D.O.B. - )

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Leslie Holdsworthy Allen (1889 - 1956) Leslie was born on 21 June 1879 at Maryborough, was educated at state schools and Newington College, Sydney, then studied English and classics at the University of Sydney (B.A., 1904; M.A., 1920). He won a travelling scholarship, and at the University of Leipzig completed in 1907 a doctoral dissertation on the personality of Shelley. After his return to Sydney he lectured part time at the university until appointment in 1911 as senior lecturer in classics and English at the Teachers' College. On 22 December 1915 at Chatswood, Allen married Dora Bavin, a New Zealander. She was tubercular, and this led him to seek a post in the hills: in 1918 he became professor of English at the Royal Military College, Duntroon. His work was undemanding and allowed him to pursue his wide cultural interests. A friend of (Sir) Lionel Lindsay and an early admirer of Roland Wakelin, he collected works by Australian painters. He produced several plays at Duntroon and for the Canberra Society of Arts and Literature. He published a wide range of scholarly articles, translated German plays for Dent's Everyman's Library, and wrote several volumes of poetry and a book of children's verses. In 1931 Allen accepted the congenial post of sole lecturer in English and classics at the new Canberra University College.    Photo of poet by photographer, year. Next year his wife died; their only son had died in childhood. He became a member of the Commonwealth Book Censorship Advisory Committee in 1933, and chaired the Literature Censorship Board from 1937 and later its appeals committee. He died at Moruya, New South Wales, on 5 January 1964, survived by his only daughter. The Haydon-Allen building at the Australian National University is in part named after him. He had made a notable contribution to the cultural life of early Canberra. Leslie Holdsworthy Allen's publications include: Poetry: Gods and Wood-Things (publisher unknown, 1913), Phaedra: and Other Poems (publisher unknown, 1921), Araby: and Other Poems (publisher unknown, 1924) and Patria (publisher unknown, 1941).

Richard James Allen (D.O.B. - ) Richard James Allen has combined a unique international career as a poet, performer, choreographer and filmmaker. His poetry, performance texts, and cross media works have been published, broadcast, performed and screened widely on three continents over the last twenty years. His seventh book of poetry, Thursday's Fictions was launched at the 1999 Australian Poetry Festival and was shortlisted for the 2000 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Poetry. He has recently completed a number of short films, including; Rubberman Accepts The Nobel Prize, which he co-wrote and starred in (shortlisted for Best Dance Film at the 2001 Australian Dance Awards) and No Surrender, which he wrote and directed (broadcast on ABC TV in 2002).    Photo of Richard James Allen by Magne Antonsen, year unknown. Richard James Allen's publications include: Poetry: Thursday's Fictions, (Five Islands Press, 1999), Performing the Unnameable: An Anthology of Australian Performance Texts (Currency Press/RealTime, 1999).

John Allison (1950 - ) John Allison was born in Blenheim, New Zealand and now lives in the Dandenongs. He has taught English and Geography at high school level and adult Creative Writing courses. In the last couple of years he has published reviews and essays on poetics in New Zealand periodicals. His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals worldwide, including London Magazine and Stand (UK), The Malahat Review and Prism International (Canada), Verse and Atlanta Review (USA), Landfall (NZ), and in Australia, Meanjin, Southerly, Southern Review, Island, Ulitarra, and Famous Reporter amongst others. He was the featured poet in Poetry NZ 14. Noted for the musical resonance of his voice, John Allison has participated in the lively Canterbury (New Zealand) Poets’ Collective readings for the past 10 years.    Photo of John Allison by Ann Davis, 2002. John Allison's publications include: Poetry: Dividing the Light: selected poems 1986-93, (Hazard Press, year unknown), Both Roads Taken, (Sudden Valley Press, 1997), Stone Moon Dark Water, (Sudden Valley Press, 1999).

Ludwika Amber (D.O.B. - ) Ludwika Amber was born in Poland and now lives in Australia.    Photo of poet by photographer, year. Ludwika Amber's publications include: Poetry: Our Territory, (Five Island Press, 1997).

Ethel Campbell Anderson (1883 - 1958) Ethel Campbell Anderson was born on 16 March 1883 at Lillington, Warwickshire, England, eldest of four children of Cyrus Mason, squatter, and his wife Louise Campbell, née Scroggie, both Australian born. Ethel was brought up in Sydney and on her grandfather's station, Rangamatty, near Picton. Small and dark, with green eyes 'flecked with brown', Ethel was endowed with charm, a sense of humour and a zest for living. On 8 October 1904 at Christ Church, Ahmednagar, Bombay, India, she married 36-year-old Major Austin Thomas Anderson (1868-1949), Royal Artillery. Born on 28 August 1868 on Mauritius, he studied at Eton and served in India and Queensland (1899-1902). Ethel adored many things about India. She accompanied Austin from the remote North-West Frontier to the Himalayan foothills. Their daughter was born in 1907. On the outbreak of war, in 1914 Anderson sailed with the 7th (Meerut) Division for France, and his family for England. Ethel lived at Cambridge and attended drawing classes at Downing College.    Photo of poet by photographer, year. Retiring from the army in 1924, in September Brigadier Anderson settled with his family in Sydney; they bought a house, Ball Green, at Turramurra, which Ethel filled with Indian bric-à-brac. Ethel 'delighted in a life which was made up of a macedoine of governors, artists and writers'. Assisted by others, she also painted jewel-coloured frescoes in the crypt of St James's, Sydney. Drawing on her experiences in Australia, India and Worcestershire, Ethel Anderson contributed to the Pioneer and the Civil & Military Gazette in India, the Spectator, Punch and the Cornhill Magazine in England, the American Atlantic Monthly, and the Sydney Morning Herald and Bulletin. She edited the letters of Patrick Hore-Ruthven, Joy of Youth (London, 1950). Although Ethel Anderson's love for Australia was deep and complex, she was too sophisticated and too individual to fit comfortably into any stream of Australian writing. Steeped in English, French and classical literature, Ethel also appreciated the moderns. She experimented constantly with metre and form. Her verse is polished, glittering, and deceptively fresh and simple; her prose a mixture of fantasy and comedy, permeated with wit and delicate irony. She saw the world with a painter's eye. She loved gardens and lyrically described trees, flowers and fruit. Yet, she could also write with power and restraint, as in her story, 'Mrs James Greene'. Her poem, "The Song of Hagar" (1957), was set to music as an oratorio by John Antill. Ethel Campbell Anderson's publications include: Poetry: Squatter's Luck (publisher unknown, 1942), Sunday at Yarralumla (publisher unknown, 1947); Essays and Short Stories: Adventures in Appleshire (publisher unknown, 1944), Timeless Garden (publisher unknown, 1945), Indian Tales (publisher unknown, 1948) and The Little Ghosts (posthumously, 1959).

GD Anderson (D.O.B. - )

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John Anderson (1948 - 1997) John Anderson grew up on an orchard in Kyabram, Victoria. In a writing career spanning 25 years he published three volumes of poetry. The main subject of his poetry was the Australian landscape, and he examined it closely: the stones, the soil, the water and the living things, both large and small. He reclaimed the neglected places of this continent as well as the well-known ones, and from them he forged a new account of it. His literary sources ranged from Wordsworth to John Shaw Neilson to Francis Ponge and Charles Olson, and he made common cause with all poets who celebrate nature. Though he travelled in Europe, South-east Asia and New Guinea, Anderson's real inspiration came from his native land. From his Melbourne base he explored the continent, seeking out the secrets of desert landscapes, of roadsides and forests and waterways. He knew the seasons of the gums, the grasses and the insects. He described the interconnectedness of things, of stars drawing towards the earth and reaching down to the trees and stones, the leaf-forms and the landforms. John Anderson died, after a short illness, in 1997 - not long after the publication of his third collection, The Shadow's Keep, which contained a series of lines retrieved from dreams and presented as one-line poems and pantoums. His acclaimed second book, the forest set out like the night had earlier brought his understandings and sensibilities to the forefront of contemporary Australian poetry.    Photo of John Anderson by Emma Lew, 1997. John Anderson's publications include: Poetry: the bluegum smokes a long cigar, (Rigmarole, 1978), the forest set out like the night, (Black Pepper, 1995), The Shadow's Keep, (Black Pepper, 1997), John Anderson Selected Poems 1978 - 1997, (Thylazine Publishing Australia, 2000), John Anderson Selected Poems 1978 - 1997 (2nd Edition), (Zeus Publications, 2002).

Pamela Anderson (D.O.B. - )

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Katharine Annear (1973 - ) Katharine Annear was born in North Adelaide, in South Australia; she is a Developmental Educator, a lecturer, artist and writer. Katharine is autistic and was institutionalised at the age of 19, having survived this she is now an advocate for the rights of people with disabilities. She is co-convener of the Australian Network of Autistic Self Advocates. Katharine's poetry explores relationships, politics and the land, her academic writing discusses disability culture, sexuality, autism and minorities. She has been published in local anthologies Vernacular and The Colonial Athens, The One Heart, One World International Poetry Collection and BirlZine! Phoenix, Arizona. Her artwork (photography and sculpture) has been exhibited throughout South Australia and has been purchased by national collectors. Katharine works as a consultant with the South Australian Government, developing quality educational practice for students with autism spectrum disorder. She runs social development programs for people with autism and Asperger syndrome. Katharine Lectures in Disability Work at DMIT and is assistant lecturer for the Masters topic "Autism: Theory and Practice" at Flinders University.    Photo of Katharine Annear by Katherine Annear, 2005. Katharine Annear can be contacted at Email: girl_interrupted (át) dodo (dót) com (dót) au   Go to Katharine Annear's website

Al-Antony (D.O.B. - ) Al-Antony Moody is a published poet who likes to explore creative techniques of writing, using spiritual, poetic and thought invoking methods in challenging the reader to think beyond their spiritual realm. Growing up in the multi-cultural environment of the inner city of Melbourne Al-Antony has tasted many wonderful and enchanting traditions, and rituals from many different backgrounds. Al-Antony's work can be opinionated, confrontational and artistically cryptic (much like life) to give an abstract tapestry of word art that can be woven into secret and hidden meanings.    Photo of Al-Antony by photographer unknown, year unknown..

Alex Apfelbaum (D.O.B. - )

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Jude Aquilina (D.O.B. - )

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Jim Arkell (1963 - ) Poet/cartoonist. Lives and works in Newcastle, out of love and habit. Clerk, mailman, storeman, shop assistant, proof reader, private tutor. Publications include: Centoria, Famous Reporter, Idiom 23, Illness (A Journal of Personal Experience), Newcastle Herald, New England Review, Pelt, PoeticA, Redoubt, Sidewalk, Social Alternatives, Studio, The Tablet.    Photo of Jim Arkell by Annette Arkell, 2000.

Louis Armand (1972 - ) Louis Armand was born in Sydney. His poetry, essays and short prose have appeared in numerous journals internationally, including Sulfur, Meanjin, Heat, Antipodes, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Review and Stand, as well as in the literary anthologies; Infernal Cinders (Kangaroo, 1993), The Zone (UNEASA, 1994), Catalyst (Folio, 2000) and 28 Australian Poets (Paper Bark Press/Craftsman House, 2000). In 1997 he was awarded the Penola Festival's Max Harris Award for Poetry (Adelaide). Since 1994 he has lived and worked in Prague, in the Czech Republic, where he currently teaches in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University. He is the editor of a literary broadsheet, PLATIC (SEMTEXT), a member of the editorial board of Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge and Strange Attractions, and poetry editor of The Prague Revue.    Photo of Louis Armand by Giovannide Caro, 1994. Louis Armand's publications include: Poetry: Seances, (Twisted Spoon Press, 1998), The Viconian Paramour, (x-poezie, 1998), Anatomy Lessons, (x-poezie, 1999), Erosions, (Vagabond Press, 2000), Synopticon, (with John Kinsella), (Vagabond Press, 2000), Inexorable Weather, (Arc Publications, 2000), Experimental prose: The Garden, (Folio/Salt Publishing, 2000).

Leah Armstrong (D.O.B. - )

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Melissa Ashley (D.O.B. - ) Melissa Ashley is a poet and fiction writer who lives in Melbourne, Australia. She is currently writing the second draft of a novel (working title "the weird sisters.") She is the former assistant director of the Subverse: Queensland Poetry Festival (1998-2001), and co-ordinator of The Arts Queensland Award for Unpublished Poetry. Her work has been published throughout Australia and overseas in various journals and magazines. In 2002 she completed an honours thesis in contemporary Australian poetry at the University of Queensland.    Photo of Melissa Ashley by Stephen Booth, 2001. Melissa Ashley's publications include: Poetry: the hospital for dolls, (PostPressed, 2003). Melissa Ashley can be contacted at Email: mjashley (át) bigpond (dót) com

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Timoshenko Aslanides (1943 - ) Timoshenko Aslanides has been a full time professional poet since July 1985. He lives in Canberra. His first book of poems, The Greek Connection, won the British Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1978. Australian Things, published in 1990, was joint second prize winner for book-length poetry collections in the Australian Bicentennial Literary Awards, in 1988. Timoshenko was named The Canberra Times Artist of the Year, for 2002.    Photo of Timoshenko Aslanides by Timoshenko Aslanides, 1998. Timoshenko Aslanides's publications include: Poetry: The Greek Connection, (The author, 1977); Passacaglia and Fugue, (The author, 1979 and 1980); One Hundred Riddles, (Angus and Roberston, 1984); Australian Things, (Penguin Books, 1990); Australian Alphabet, (Butterfly Books, 1992); AnniVersaries: 366 linked poems, one for every day of the Australian year, (Brandl & Schlesinger, 1998); A calander of flowers, (Five Islands Press, 2001). Occasions for Words, is due out from Wakefield Press in 2006. Prose: Twenty-two Balmain Crescent, Acton: the story of a house and its people, (POC Children's Centre, 1991); Goulburn and Environs: a comprehensive guide, (The Olive Press, 1983) and Canberra and the ACT, (Kangaroo Press, 1988), (both guide books co-authored with Jenny Stewart). Timoshenko Aslanides can be contacted at Email: timoshenko (át) actewagl (dót) net (dót) au   Go to Timoshenko Aslanides's website

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Thea Astley (1925 - 2004)

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Karen Attard (D.O.B. - ) Karen Attard is a winner of the Blue Mountains City of the Arts one-week fellowships for her poetry. Her science fiction short stories have appeared in many Australian genre publications, such as Eidolon and Aurealis. She has also a number of competitions held by these publications.    Photo of poet by photographer, year. Karen Attard's publications include: Insert publications.

Sara Attfield (D.O.B. - )

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Dorothy Auchterlonie (D.O.B. - )

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Albert Gordon Austin (1918 - 1990)

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Jude Aquilina (D.O.B. - ) Jude Aquilina lives in the Adelaide Hills where she keeps free-range geese and bantams (as pets). She enjoys full-moon bush walks and photography, and has two teenage children who 'never want to go to another poetry reading again'! Her poetry has been published in newspapers and literary journals across Australia and in the UK and US. She has published two collections with Wakefield Press: Knifing the Ice in 2000 (Winner of the Friendly Street Single Poet's Collection) and On a moon spiced night in 2004. Jude's poems also appear off the page: framed in a city café; and on a series of wine labels by Coriole Wines. Part of one poem 'I Want More' is included in a recent edition of The Kama Sutra. Jude is Office Manager of the SA Writers' Centre, where she feels privileged to meet writers daily and hear about their writing projects and life experiences. She also runs creative writing Workshops for school students and adults, and has edited others' poetry together with a number of anthologies including Friendly Street #24. She won the Satura Poetry Prize in 1998, the Country Arts Poetry Prize in 2000 and the ABC Mildura Writers' Festival Poetry Prize in 2005. She has mentored for the Smith Family and for the SA Youth Arts Board, and is a member of The Poets' Union and PEN (Poets, Essayists and Novelists - for imprisoned writers). Jude believes in 'Poetry for the masses' and finds great pleasure in bringing non-poets (people who are sometimes put off at school and have never gone back to poetry) to contemporary poetry.    Photo of Jude Aquilina by Britanny Ramsey, 2006. She is currently part of a poetry duo titled 'WomanSpeak', a collaboration with Adelaide poet Louise Nicholas. Together they write about women's bodies, health and issues, often with a humorous slant. They perform to women's community groups and to the health sector, having recently been hired by SA Cervix Screening to read and speak at their conferences, and commissioned to write a poem for the launch of the new vaccine against cervical cancer. Jude is a regular reader at Friendly Street Poets and is thankful to be part of Adelaide's exciting poetry community. Jude Aquilina's publications include: Knifing the Ice, (Wakfield Press, 2000), On a moon spiced night, (Wakfield Press, 2004). Jude Aquilina can be contacted at Email: jude_poet2 (át) yahoo (dót) com (dót) au

Stephen Axelsen (D.O.B. - )

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