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Kate Fagan (D.O.B. - ) Kate Fagan is a Sydney writer, singer and songwriter. Her poems have been published in various literary journals including Salt, Meanjin and The Prague Review.    Photo of poet by photographer, year. Kate Fagan's publications include: Poetry: Return to a New Physics, (Vagabond Press, year?), The Long Moment, (Salt Publishing, unknown).

Diane Fahey (1945 - ) Diane Fahey was born in Melbourne, Australia. After spending a number of years living in Britain in the early eighties, she lived for six years in Adelaide, and now lives in Geelong, Victoria. Diane attended the University of Melbourne, and has subsequently combined writing with teaching in schools, universities, and in adult education. In 2002, she taught in the Professional Writing and Editing Course at the Centre for Adult Education, Melbourne. She holds a Diploma of Secondary Education and the degrees of B.A. and M.A. from the University of Melbourne, and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Western Sydney; its title is: 'Places and Spaces of the Writing Life'. Her poetry features both distinctively Australian, and European, settings and preoccupations. Dominant concerns are Greek myth, fairy tales, visual art and landscape, and increasingly, ecological themes. Her interest in mystery stories and in blending genres informs her recently completed The Mystery of Rosa Morland, the first of a trilogy of novels. Diane has won various awards including the Mattara Poetry Prize and the Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize. In 2001, one of her poems was shortlisted for the Davoren Hanna Poetry Prize in Ireland. Metamorphoses was shortlisted for the Victorian, and N.S.W., Premier's Awards in 1988, and Mayflies in Amber was shortlisted for the John Bray Poetry Award at the Adelaide Festival of Arts in 1994.    Photo of Diane Fahey by Beverly Hall, 2000. Listening to a Far Sea was shortlisted for the 'Age' Book of the Year Award, Poetry Section, in 1998. Since 1987, Diane Fahey has received three one-year Writer's Fellowships, a Writer's Project Grant, and a three-year New Work Grant from the Literature Fund of the Australia Council; two Writer's Grants from the South Australian government; and two Writer's Grants from the Victorian government. In 1993, Diane was a fellow at Hawthornden International Writers' Centre, and has been writer in residence at Ormond College, University of Melbourne, and at the University of Adelaide. In 1999, she was awarded a residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Co. Monaghan, Ireland. Diane Fahey's publications include: Poetry: Voices from the Honeycomb, (Jacaranda, 1986), Metamorphoses, (Dangaroo Press, 1988), Turning the Hourglass, (Dangaroo Press, 1990), Mayflies in Amber, (A & R/HarperCollins, 1993), The Body in Time, (Spinifex, 1995), Listening to a Far Sea, (Hale & Iremonger, 1998), The Sixth Swan, (Five Islands Press, 2001). Diane Fahey can be contacted at Email: difay (át) swift (dót) net (dót) au

Rona Fahey (D.O.B. - )

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W. S. Fairbridge (1918 - 1950)

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Anne Fairburn (D.O.B. - )

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David Farnsworth (1938 - ) David Farnsworth was born in Geelong and the family moved to Ballarat when he was two. Farnsworth attended primary and secondary school in Ballarat, and later the Ballarat teacher's College and University of Ballarat. After working for a time for the Commonwealth bank, Farnsworth started a teaching career that included posts at Cravensville, The Brother's, Bogong, Williamstown Tech. Sebastopol Tech. Mt Clear Tech/High and the School of Mines and Industries. He started writing poetry in 1972 and is President of FAW Ballarat. He is a member of the Ballarat Writing Council. Farmsworth has been published in magazines including; Poetry Australia, Overland, Scarp, Verandah, Hobo, famous Reporter, Centoria and Micropress Oz.    Photo of poet by photographer, year. David Farnsworth's publications include: Insert publications.

Michael Farrell (D.O.B. - ) Michael Farrell was born in Bombala, N.S.W. and has lived in Melbourne since 1990. He won the Harri Jones Memorial Prize for 1999, and is an editorial assistant at Meanjin. His poems are forthcoming in Meanjin, Southerly, Overland, Southern Review, Cordite, Verse, and Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets; he is currently drafting a novel. His overseas publications include Spit and The Kit-Cat Review in the USA, and Printout in New Zealand. Michael has two poems and a memoir of Marianne Moore forthcoming in Verse, and has read on 5UV in Adelaide. He has written and directed a play which was performed at the Melbourne Fringe Festival and has also written other performance works. His major formative literary influences include Joyce, Brecht, Stein and cummings, the surrealists; later O'Hara, Ashbery, Perec and the Language poets. Otherwise he has been greatly influenced by New Musical Express, Yoko Ono, John Cage, Warhol and people like Rauschenberg. Not fogetting movies and Madonna. Michael spent much of his childhood on a farm, the reality coloured by a rural mythology provided by his grandparents and that is the rock upon which the (catholic) church of his poetry is based.    Photo of Michael Farrell by Detlev Jackson, 1997. Michael Farrell's publications include: Poetry: ode ode, (Salt Publishing, 2003).

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Kieran Finnane (D.O.B. - )

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Mary Finnin (D.O.B. - ????)

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Dr. Jeremy Fisher (D.O.B. - )

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R. D. Fitzgerald (1902 - 1987)

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Lionel Fogarty (c.1957 - ) Lionel Fogarty was born at Barambah, now known as Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve, in the semi-tropical northern Australian state of Queensland. Since the 1970s he has been active in many of the political struggles of the Aboriginal people, particularly in southern Queensland, from the Land Rights movement to setting up Aboriginal health and legal services to black deaths in custody. He is also an Australian poet who has opened up the new space of black Australian surrealist writing and done much to reformulate our understanding of poetic discourse and its roles in both black and white communities. Recently, his work as a legal and political activist and as a community leader has been focused on the reality of Aboriginal deaths in custody. Lionel Fogarty has been acclaimed as a strong and authentic voice emerging from a radical new generation of Australian Aboriginal writers.    Photo of Lionel Fogarty by photographer unknown, year unknown. Deliberately using the creole language of the Murri Aboriginal people in preference to standard English, Fogarty's poems are gauntlets thrown down in front of the white reader, and powerful litanies for his own people. In May 2003 Lionel commenced a two year fellowship through the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board of the Australia Council. Lionel Fogarty's publications include: Poetry: Kargun, (Cheryl Buchanan, 1980), Yoogum Yoogum, (Penguin Books, Australia, 1982), Kudjela, (Cheryl Buchanan, 1983), Ngutji, (Cheryl Buchanan, 1984), Jagera, (Cheryl Buchanan, 1990), Booyooburra: A Tale of the Wakka Murri (children's book illustrated by Sharon Hodgson), (Hyland House, Australia, 1993), New and Selected Poems: Munaldjali, Mutuerjaraera, (Hyland House, Australia 1995). Lionel Fogarty can be contacted at: Postal Address: PO Box 12085 George St; Brisbane Qld 4003 Australia. Email: lionel (át) feralarts (dót) com (dót) au

Tony Folley (D.O.B. - )

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Mary Hannay Foott (1846 - 1918)

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John Forbes (1950 - 1998) John Forbes was born in Melbourne, and attended school in Sydney. His father, Leonard Forbes, was a civilian meteorologist with the RAAF and the family, including his mother Phyllis and three younger brothers, also lived for short periods in northern Queensland, Malaya and New Guinea. He attended the University of Sydney in the 1960s and was part of the New Poetry group. Forbes published his first collection of poetry in the Angus & Robertson "Poets of the Month" series in 1976. Forbes also had poems published in journals and magazines and was a prolific reviewer of contemporary poetry. John Forbes died of a massive heart attack on January 23, 1998. He was still writing what proved to be his last collection of poems, Damaged Glamour, which has been published by Brandl and Schlesinger.    Photo of John Forbes courtesy of Brandl & Schlesinger, year unknown. John Forbes's publications include: Poetry: On The Beach, (Sea Cruise Books, 1977), Stalin's Holidays, (Transit Poetry, 1981), The Stunned Mullet, (Hale & Iremonger, 1988), New and Selected Poems, (Harper Collins, 1992), Damaged Glamour, (Brandl and Schlesinger, year unknown).

Frances Macaulay Forde (1950 - ) Sue Coughlan writes under the name of Frances Macaulay Forde to honour the names of both her mother and father. In 1994 Frances won the inaugural Furphy for the Best, Unpublished Children's Manuscript for her story 'The Swimming Pool People'. She's written many other children's stories, poems and scripts, including an animated television series. In 2001 Frances graduated with a BA in Writing and supporting major in Media Studies from Edith Cowan University in Mt. Lawley. Throughout her degree, she wrote, published and read or performed poetry. Her writing has appeared in the Broadsheet of Lunchlines, various newsletters, websites and is on the web page of Peter Cowan Writer's Centre. Frances' story 'Write to Romance' is also included in 'Urban Scrawl', a recently published anthology of writers in the northern suburbs of Perth. She has self-published two pamphlets and a book Hidden Capacity - a poet's journey, through MMB Publishing, Ireland in June 2002. Frances spent 14 months writing and attending festivals, seminars and workshops in Ireland. During 2005 she organised events in the State Library for National Poetry Week and served on the 2005 Spring Poetry Festival committee. Frances is now focused on scriptwriting - mostly screen adaptations but also short episodes for an innovative TV series and her own original ideas. Frances writes; "I'm totally immersed in the writing life and couldn't be happier."    Photo of Frances Macaulay Forde by Padraig Coughlan, 2003. Frances Macaulay Forde can be contacted at: Email: frances (át) francesmacaulayforde (dót) com   Go to Frances Macaulay Forde's website

William Forster (1918 - 1882)

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John Foulcher (1952 - ) John Foulcher has been writing and publishing poetry for nearly thirty years. He has published seven books of poetry. He won the National Library Poetry Award in 1998 and his New and Selected Poems won the 1994 ACT Book of the Year Award. He was the recent recipient of a Literature Board Established Writers Fellowship (2003) and is at present working towards another volume of poetry. He is Head of Drama at Bishop Druitt College in Coffs Harbour on the NSW Mid-North Coast.    Photo of Helen Ferry by photographer unknown, year unknown. John Foulcher's publications include: Poetry: 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, (Indigo 2000), The Learning Curve, (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2002).

Geoff Fox (D.O.B. - ) Geoff Fox is a Melbourne poet/photographer in love with the best of Indonesia. Over a period of seventeen years writing poetry in Indonesia, he has focussed for seven years on the work of Indonesian women poets and for ten years on asmaul husna (99 arabic names for God) He has performed with singers at many Melbourne venues including Monsalvat, Chapel off Chapel and Revolver. His poetry/music videos have been screened in Melbourne at Federation Square, Glitch Cinema, Barbuka and Solidarity Salon. People with whom Geoff has performed include: Amien Rais (former chairman of inodonesia's house of review style parliamentary body), Neno Warisman (who sang to Miterrand and Reagan when they visited Indonesia), Arief Budiman (professor of Indonesian studies at melbourne university), Tim Costello (former president of the Australian Baptist Union and australian CEO of World vision ), Robert Mate Mate (who was an indigenous story teller from Queensland) and Peter Neville (a percussionist who has toured with the Electric Light Orchestra and Elton John). His poems have been published in Australia in Overland, Mattoid, Northern Perspective, Fremantle Arts Review, Thylazine and others, in New Zealand in Spin, in the UK in the Global Tapestry journal, in America in the California Quarterly and Northland Review. Geoff's book is Bent Rocks, (with illustration), published by Possum Paw Press, 1991. He meets his economic needs as a midwife.    Photo of Geoff Fox by Pamela Sidney, year unknown.

William Fox (D.O.B. - ) William Fox is a 19 year-old poet, currently studying Arts at Melbourne University. His work has been published in the online journals Thylazine, Conspire, Poetrynow and Transparent Words, the CD-rom journal Paper Tiger, and the print journals Voiceworks, Sidewalk, and Centoria, as well as The Age. Work is forthcoming in Overland, Core, New England Review, and Slope. Major influences at this stage include Crane, Roethke, Marvell and Shakespeare, and in particular the Australian poets John Forbes, Gig Ryan, John Scott, and John Tranter. Also indebted to Sonic Youth, The Flaming Lips, and Stanley Kubrick.    Photo of William Fox by photographer unknown, year unknown. William Fox's publications include: Insert publications.

Lesley Fowller (D.O.B. - )

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Richard J. Frankland (D.O.B. - )

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Megan Fraser (D.O.B. - )

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Mary Fullarton (1868 - 1946)

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