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Stephen Hagan (D.O.B. - )

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Helen Hagemann (D.O.B. - ) She was runner-up in a 1998 Perth PEN International Competition with a poem called ‘Permanent Aberrations’ about Australia’s notorious Christopher Skaze. She is included in the 2000 publication, ‘An Endless Afternoon’(Lioness Publications) – an anthology celebrating birth and mothering by Women in Publishing. She is passionate about the ‘other’ in her work and primarily focuses on the female experience. Helen graduated from ECU with a BA in Writing and works as a Coordinator on ECU’s Joondalup campus for the Peter Cowan Writers Centre. As a community arts administrator, she coordinated a Fringe Festival in November 2000 as part of the WA State Literature Centre’s, ‘Word of Mouth,’ Writers and Readers Day bringing such novelists as Nick Earls to the northern suburbs. She teaches poetry every Saturday afternoon at the Peter Cowan Writers Centre, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup campus. It is here that she recently won first prize in the 'Trudy Graham National Literary Awards 2002' for her poem 'Farmed Out.' Helen is interested in the sensual world of the female, the lyric and political writing.    Photo of Helen Hagemann by her friend Elizabeth, 1998. Helen Hagemann can be contacted at: Postal Address: PO Box 331, Wanneroo, Western Australia, 6946, Australia. Email: hagemann_helen (át) hotmail (dót) (com)   Go to Helen Hagemann's website

Michael Haig (D.O.B. - ) Michael Haig was born in Melbourne and educated mainly in Sydney. He went to Sydney University where he studied Arts and Law, gaining a First Class Honours degree in English Literature and Language. He won a scholarship from Sydney in 1986, the Arthur Macquarie Travelling Scholarship for a practising poet or sculptor to study overseas. While receiving this scholarship for two years he studied literature, mainly the work of Philip Larkin, at Cambridge University. He also pursues interests in music, particularly classical guitar and electrical keyboard, athletics, swimming and art. He took part in competitive athletics for a few years, eventually competing in the NSW titles in 800m and 1500m in 1995. He has been published in various Australian literary magazines and journals such as Centoria, Spindrift, Who on Campus (Who Weekly), Five Bells and PixelPapers. He has published quite a lot of reviews, for instance reviews of Australian poetry, fiction, films, plays and music, in Five Bells, PixelPapers, an ezine AntiPodium, and university publications. I've published poetry in the NSW Poets Union anthologies, Untilted, Love The Word and No River Is Safe. Michael Haig's publications include: Poetry: For The First Time, (Post Pressed, 2000).    Photo of Michael Haig by Newtown Express Photo, 2002.

Jenny Hale (D.O.B. - )

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Halfway HALFWAY were formed in Brisbane Australia in 2000. However at least half of the band were formerly of independent guitar band ST JUDE, three quarters of whom hail from the regional city of Rockhampton, Queensland, located on the Tropic of Capricorn. In 2004 they released their debut album Farewell to the faint-hearted, although fans of the band had the privilege of hearing the demos of this album in the guise of the "Golden Halfway" demo sessions CD. The album has garnered rave critical reviews, the most outstanding by Noel Mengel of Brisbane's Courier-Mail who not only rated it album of the month for October 2004, but also placed it in the Courier-Mail listing of top ten international albums of 2004, alongside albums by artists the calibre of Neil Young, Nick Cave & Franz Ferdinand.     Photo of Band Halfway with Rob Younger and Wayne Connolly at Rockinghorse Studio by Steve Sutherland, 2006. Halfway can be contacted at: Email: halfwaycountry (át) optusnet (dót) com (dót) au    Go to Halfway's website

Fiona Hall (D.O.B. - )

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John Hall (1943 - ) John Hall is a writer, poet with occasional involvement in the IT industry. He has been a teacher, radio announcer, actor, model making, stage manager, IT Consultant and selling anything that wasn't nailed down. He has been married and divorced with living memory of two beautiful daughters, one who survives. Both inspire him constantly to write more and revisit what they have shared, sometimes in poetry. His writng includes plays, film and TV scripts and other pieces that can be found on his website. Out of school he became a teacher, radio announcer and occasional actor, as he began to hone his writing skills. At other times he has been a Stage Manager, Stage Director and run workshop productions in student and fringe theatre. In the early 70s he began to explore the poet's land. He has also been involved in IT as a trainer and technical writer. One of his favourite quotes from Don Quixote, he applies to himself constantly: "He's a muddled fool, full of lucid intervals".    Photo of John Hall by photographer unknown, 2000. John Hall can be contacted at: Email: johnhalllast (át) froggy (dót) com (dót) au   Go to John Hall's website   Read John Hall's poetry here

Liz Hall-Downs (1961 - ) Liz Hall-Downs' poetry, stories and essays have appeared in fourWtwelve, Coppertales, small packages, Journal of Australian Studies, Alternative Australia: celebrating cultural diversity (Enabler, UK), Another kind of space: creating eco-dwellings and environments (Enabler, 2002), and Subversions: generations of contemporary poetry (papertigermedia 2001), as well as in the online journals DIVAN, mangrove, Thylazine, Brisbane Stories and The Drunken Boat. She has a BA in Professional Writing from Deakin University, and an MA (Creative Writing) from the University of Queensland. She lives in south-east Queensland, and works variously as an editor, freelance writer and reviewer, community artist and workshop leader. As a poet /performer/ singer, Liz has appeared at countless venues across Australia. Since the early 1980's she has been reciting and singing in public as well as publishing on paper. She has worked with various poetry and music groups, including 'The Word Warriors' (1990-1), 'Stand-Up Poets' (1992-4), and 'Ozpoets' (USA tour 1994, where she won the Texas Grand Slam at the Austin International Poetry Festival).    Photo of Liz Hall-Downs and Alice by Kim Downs, 2001. In recent years her performance work has largely been in collaboration with partner Kim in the music/poetry duo, 'Fit of Passion'. Since 2006 she has been singing and playing bush bass in an 'old time mountain music' trio, 'Cathouse Creek'. In 2001 she won the University of Queensland's A.E.E. Pearse Prize for an English Postgraduate Essay, and was awarded a writers' fellowship at Booranga Writers' Centre to work on My Arthritic Heart. Other works in progress include a realist novel, The Death of Jimi Hendrix. She is Poetry Editor for Thylazine. Her most recent poetry collection, My Arthritic Heart (postpressed, 2006), is an autobiographical illness narrative in poetry which deals with the experience of living with the chronic, auto-immune disease Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA.), in all its aspects. Liz writes: 'I feel this is some of the most important writing I have done; the lives and struggles of people with disabilities are so often hidden from the general community, and it is this which I address with this collection'. Liz Hall-Downs's publications include: Poetry: Conscious Razing: Combustible Poems (1986), Girl With Green Hair (Papyrus, 2000) and the historical/environmental poetry CD Blackfellas Whitefellas Wetlands. Liz Hall-Downs can be contacted at Email: lizhd6 (át) netscape (dót) net   Go to the Liz Hall-Downs's website

Rodney Hall (1935 - )

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Kathryn Hamann (1954 - ) Kathryn's poetry ranges from the spiritual, to the dramatic monologue, to the social comment to the satirical. She is hardly a conventional poet of her time and is said to have a distinctive voice. The strongly spiritual, narrative and ironic elements in her poetry set her apart. Kathryn has also been a committee member for the Association for Children with a Disability. She was the founding editor of the newsletter, The Swallow, and edited the first 14 issues. She spoke at the International Autism Conference in 2002 on Cross-Purposes and also gave a paper with Carmel Vandersman at the 2005 Autism conference in 2005. Kathryn's work has been published in a wide range of journals, including Blue Dog, A Stinging Fly (Dublin), New England Review, Muse, Centoria, Famous Reporter, The Mozzie, Takahe (NZ), Tears in the Fence (UK), wanderingdog, m.a.g., Hecate, Zadok Perspectives, Women-Church, Poetry Monash, Divan and Studio. Her work also appeared in Set Free (PCP) and Motherlode (PCP). Kathryn's poetry has also appeared in several other anthologies such as Said The Rat. Kathryn was awarded second prize in the New England Review competition in 2002. In 2001 her poem "Pinnochia" was commended in the Melbourne Poets competition. In 2001 she self-published An Arc of Promise. Her second book, Pelargoniums, a verse narrative was published by Autism Victoria in 2001. It was launched by Wendy Lawson at the Autism Conference in Adelaide that year. Kathryn was guest reader at the Friendly Street Poets, Adelaide in October 2005. She has also read at Melbourne Poets and Montsalvat. She has appeared on local radio and Southern FM. Kathryn is currently working on finishing her next book Generations of Women. Kathryn Hamann's publications include: Arc of Promise, (Kinetikon forum, 2000), Pelargoniums, (Autism Victoria, 2001), An Embrace of Morning (Poetica Christi Press, 2005).    A Photo of Kathyrn Hamann (Photo by photographer unknown, year unknown). Kathryn Hamann can be contacted at Email: hamann_k (át) optusnet (dót) com (dót) au

Philip Hammial (1937 - ) Born in Detroit, Philip Hammial migrated to Australia in 1972. His fourteenth book, Bread, was short-listed for a NSW Premier's Award in 2001. His poems have been included in 8 Australian poetry anthologies, 52 Australian literary magazines and newspapers and in literary magazines worldwide. Musician Colin Offord has used his text as repertoire in over 100 performances worldwide on 3 CDs. Hammial spent 10 years travelling "on the cheap" in 73 countries. He is also a sculptor who has had 25 solo exhibitions & has participated in over 50 group exhibitions. As the director of The Australian Collection of Outsider Art he has organised/curated 22 exhibitions of Australian Outsider Art in Australia, France, Germany and the U.S. Philip Hammial is an environmental and human rights activist.    Photo of Philip Hammial by Anne Welch, 2001. Philip Hammial can be contacted at: Read Philip Hammial's work here

Susan Hampton (1949 - ) Susan Hampton was born at Inverell, NSW. She has worked as a literary editor, poet, short story writer and teacher in creative writing and journalism courses, and has served several writer-in-residencies. She was Writing Fellow at the Australian National University in 1993. Hampton edits manuscripts for both new and published writers, and has edited poetry for The Canberra Times. Her book Surly Girls won the Steele Rudd Award for Short Stories in 1990. She edited the Penguin Book of Australian Women Writers in 1986 with Kate Llewellyn (published by Penguin). Susan Hampton's publications include: The Tall Women, (publisher unknown, year unknown), Rogue Song, (publisher unknown, year unknown); Prose: Surly Girls, (publisher unknown, 1990), Anthology (Ed): Penguin Book of Australian Women Writers, (Penguin, 1986).    Photo of poet by photographer, year. Susan Hampton can be contacted at: Read Susan Hampton's work here

Birdh Handcock (1947 - ) I have been writing and been published regularly since 1974. Was involved with the Unknown Poets group (The Poetic Art club), and Melbourne Street Poets until they folded in the early 1980s. I ran the Electric Garden Poetry Program and co-presented No Limits (The Arty-Farty Hour) on 3CR from 1977-87. I write poetry, stories and plays. I am a Toastmaster (CTM-Gold), an editor (working freelance and at Poetry Australia Foundation), a baccalaureate (in Australian Cultural Studies, with a major in Professional editing and Script-Writing). I have work published in Australia and a few overseas. I was sub-editor in Poetry and Childrens Literature on the US e-zine The Writers Hood. In 1988 I self-published Poems of a Happy Bloke. There are some other publications of my work, but they are sold-out. In the pipe-line are, A Funtastically Fantabulous Fairy Book, Oh, Parnassus!, Brevity and Wit, and A Journey with Psalms. Published Poems (in DTE News, Grass Roots, Habitat and Heritage, Luna, Nimbin News, Sunshine News, William Cobbet, Zirius, etc), Performance Pieces (yes, many, if not all, lend themselves to out-loud performance) and Popular Encores, and some will be favorites of yours too-- Betcha!", reads the cheeky blurb. Of this book, Judith Wright said it was important, and that I "must keep my voice", and Murray Waters said: "not 'a happy bloke', but 'the happy bloke'".     Birdh Handcock (Photo by Anne Handcock, 2006). Birdh Handcock can be contacted at: Email: b_a_hancock (át) ozzienet (dót) net

Kristin Hannaford (1972 - ) Kristin Hannaford is a Queensland poet. Swelter (Interactive Press 2003) includes Kristin's first collection of poetry titled Inhale. Kristin's work has been published in many Australian journals and e-zines - most recently Papertiger, Famous Reporter, the Newcastle Poetry Anthology and forthcoming in Treci Trg (Belgrade). She has received awards for her poetry, including first prize for her poem "Grasslands" in the 2004 Leichhardt New Media Poetry Prize, and joint second prize for Shoalwater in Newcastle New Media Poetry Prize 2004. Both poems are from her multimedia sequence "Wetland Sonnets". Kristin is the current poetry editor for Central Queensland University's Idiom 23. She lives in Yeppoon in Central Queensland with her husband and two sons.    Photo of Kristin Hannaford by Shaune Sinclair, 2003. Kristin Hannaford can be contacted at: Email: kristinhannaford (át) hotmail (dót) com    Go to Kristin Hannaford's website

Janette Hanrahan (D.O.B. - )

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Clayton Hanson (D.O.B. - ) Clayton Hansen is a fiction writer and poet living in Warwick, Queensland. His short fiction and poetry has been published throughout Australia, in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Spain. Clayton has lived and worked in various locations around Queensland, beginning in Brisbane (Royal Womens - 1964) extending as far as the tropical north, plying his trade as a teacher and, for the past fourteen years, as a primary school principal. He was recipient of an Arts Queensland - Individual Professional Development Grant in 2000, and he was invited to read his work at the Queensland Poetry Festival and at the The Age - Melbourne Writer’s Festival. He was the winner of Verandah Magazine’s Short Fiction Prize in 2000 and highly commended in the Banjo Paterson Writing Awards in the same year. Clayton Hansen's publications include: Poetry: The Ventriloquist’s Child, (and short fiction), (Interactive Press, 2001).    Photo of Clayton Hansen by Shane Barr, 2000.

Dale Harcombe (D.O.B. - ) Dale writes children's and YA fiction, short stories and poetry. Karaoke Kate for younger readers was published in January 2007. Red Alert! is also scheduled for publication in 2007. Many of Dale's poems have appeared in literary journals and newspapers or anthologies in Australia and USA. She wrote a radio play 'Edge of Silence' which was broadcast on several stations in 2005. Dale conducts writing workshops. When not writing or conducting workshops, Dale is a manuscript assessor and book reviewer. For more information visit www.daleharcombe.com. Dale's latest book for young readers Karaoke Kate, available now from Wendy Pye Publishing. Also Kaleidoscope a collection of poems, from Ginninderra Press.    Photo of Dale Harcombe by Laura Harcombe, 2005. Dale Harcombe's publications include: Chasing after the Wind (Scholastic, 1997), Kaleidoscope (Ginninderra Press, 2005). Dale Harcombe can be contacted at Email: dharcombe (át) dodo (dót) com (dót) au   Go to Dale Harcombe's website

Paul Hardacre (1974 - ) Paul Hardacre was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1974. Paul's poetry has appeared in the anthologies In the criminal's cabinet: An anthology of poetry and fiction (nth position press, USA, 2004), The Second Wellington International Poetry Festival Anthology (HeadworX, New Zealand, 2004), Greatest Hits - JAAM 21: An Anthology of Writing 1984-2004 (HeadworX / Earl of Seacliffe Art Workshop, New Zealand, 2003), (Some from) Diagram: An anthology of text, art, and schematic (Del Sol Press, Washington, D.C., 2003), and Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry (Rattapallax Press, New York, 2002). His first collection of poetry, The Year Nothing, was published by HeadworX (Wellington, NZ) in 2003. His unpublished poetry manuscript, Love in the place of rats, was shortlisted for the Thomas Shapcott Award in both 2003 and 2004.    Photo of Paul Hardacre by Marissa Newell, 1999. Paul Hardacre can be contacted at Email: editor (át) papertigermedia (dót) com   Go to Paper Tiger Media

Lesbia Hardford (1891 - 1927)

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John Harding (D.O.B. - ) John Harding's publications include: Poetry: Johnny Harding's Little Black book of poems,(self published, 1994).    Photo of John Harding by Lisa Bellear, 2001. John Harding can be contacted at: Read John Hardings's work here

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John Harms (D.O.B. - )

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W. E. Harney (1895 - 1963)

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Charles Harpur (1813 - 1868)

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Edward Harrington (1896 - ????)

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Max Harris (1821 - )

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Robert Harris (1951 - 1993) Robert Harris was born in Melbourne and spent much of his adult life in Sydney. His first book was Localities (1973). He won the Harri Jones prize in 1975. Harris worked as an editor for New Poetry magazine during the 1970s and in the 1980s worked with Barrett Reid on Overland. He overcame a poor education and a working life of manual labour to become a highly regarded poet. His work is considered to be deeply spiritual tone. He suffered a heart attack and died in Sydney, aged forty-one, in 1993, without seeing his book Jane, Interlinear and Other Poems win the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry. Robert Harris's publications include: Poetry: Localities (publisher unknown, 1973), Jane, Interlinear and Other Poems (publisher unknown, year unknown).    Photo of Robert Harris from New Poetry by photographer unknown, 1977. For More Information on Robert Harris: Read Robert Harris's work here

Rory Harris (D.O.B. - )

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Brian Harrison-Lever (D.O.B. - )

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Jennifer Harrison (1955 - ) Jennifer Harrison has written three books of poetry. The first, Michelangelo's Prisoners, won the 1995 Anne Elder Award. Her second collection, Cabramatta /Cudmirrah, was highly commended by Poetry Book Club, Australia and her third, Dear B, was short-listed for both the 1999 Age Book of the Year and the NSW Premier's Award. She is currently working on her fourth collection assisted by a literary grant from the Australia Council. Her new work is inspired by Australian and European street-theatre traditions. Jennifer Harrison's publications include: Poetry: Michelangelo's Prisoners, (Black Pepper Press, 1994), Cabramatta /Cudmirrah,, (Black Pepper Press, 1996), Dear B, (Black Pepper Press, 1999).    Photo of Jennifer Harrison by Bruce Day, 1997.

Martin Harrison (D.O.B. - )

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J. S. Harry (D.O.B. - ) JS Harry is a Sydney poet who has held a variety of jobs, including educational bookselling and editing the ABC radio national poetry program A First Hearing, while pursuing a writing career. She has been a writer-in-residence at the Australian National University. She has received numerous awards for her poetry, some of which has been translated into Italian. Her work is included anthologies for primary and secondary school students, in an environmental studies kit and other secondary school educational material. She was awarded the PEN international Lynne Phillips Poetry Prize in 1987. Her Selected Poems was co-winner of the 1996 NSW Premier's Kenneth Slessor Award). Recently she has been involved with the Australian Society of Authors' Poets on the Web project.    Photo of J. S. Harry by photographer unknown, year unknown. J. S. Harry publications include: Poetry: The Life on Water and the Life Beneath, (publisher unknown, 1995); Selected Poems, (Penguin, 1995).

Kevin Hart (1954 - ) Kevin Hart was born in London and was brought to Australia as a child in 1966. He grew up in Brisbane, and studied at the Australian National University, Stanford University, and the University of Melbourne. He is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Monash University in Melbourne. He has won the Christopher Brennan Award, the Grace Leven Award, the Harri Jones Prize, the NSW Premier's Award, the Mattara Award, the Victorian Premier's Award, and the Wesley Michel Wright Award. In 1994 he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Kevin Hart's publications include: Poetry: The Departure, (University of Queensland Press, 1978), The Lines of the Hand, (Angus and Robertson, 1981), Your Shadow, (Angus and Robertson, 1984), Peniel, (Golvan Arts, 1991), New and Selected Poems, (HarperCollins, 1995), Dark Angel, (Dedalus Press, 1996), Wicked Heat, (Paperbark Press, 1999), Selected Poems, (Bloodaxe Books, 2000), Nineteen Songs, (pamphlet), (Vagabond Press, 1999), Madonna, (pamphlet), (Vagabond Press, 2000); Literary Criticism: The Trespass of the Sign, (Cambridge University Press, 1989); (expanded edition), (Fordham University Press, 2000), A. D. Hope, (Oxford University Press, 1992), Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property, (Cambridge University Press, 1999); Anthology: The Oxford Book of Australian Religious Verse (editor), (Oxford University Press, 1994), Guiseppe Ungaretti's selected poems: The Buried Harbour (editor/translator), (Leros Press, 1990).    Photo of Kevin Hart by Jenni Mitchell, 1991. For More Information on Kevin Hart: Read Kevin Hart's work here

Patrick Joseph Hartigan (1879 - 1952)

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William Hart-Smith (1911 - 1990)

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Andrew Hartley (D.O.B. - )

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Gwen Harwood (1920 - 1995) Gwen Harwood was born in Brisbane, Queensland. Her father played the piano and violin, and Gwen took piano lessons, hoping to become a musician. She became a music teacher in Brisbane. She learned German and read widely in German poetry and philosophy, especially the philosophical writings of Wittgenstein. She married William Harwood in 1945 and moved to Tasmania, where she raised four children. She used the pseudonyms Walter Lehmann and Miriam Stone when she first began to publish poetry. Her first book was Poems (1963), and she published six more books of verse. She was awarded the Robert Frost award (1977) and the Patrick White (1978). Her fourth book Bone Scan (1989) won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Prize for poetry. She received Honorary Doctorates of Letters from the Universities of Queensland, Tasmania and La Trobe. Gwen Harwood's publications include: Poetry: Poems (publisher unknown, 1963) Bone Scan (publisher unknown, 1989).    Photo of Gwen Harwood by photographer unknown, year unknown. For More Information on Gwen Harwood: Read writings on Gwen Harwood's here

Dennis Haskell (D.O.B. - ) Dennis Haskell is a poet, critic and editor who teaches at the University of Western Australia. He has been an editor of the literary magazine Westerly since 1985, was for three years the poetry critic for 'Books and Writing.' Dennis Haskell's publications include: Poetry: Listening at Night, (poetry), Angus & Robertson, 1984, Wordhord (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1989), A Touch of Ginger, Poems by Dennis Haskell and Fay Zwicky, (Folio, 1992), Abracadabra (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1993), Tilting at Matilda (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1994), The Ghost Names Sing (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1997), Prose: The Poetry of John Keats (Sydney UP/Oxford UP, 1991), Kenneth Slessor: Collected Poems, ed. Dennis Haskell & Geoffrey Dutton, (Angus & Robertson, 1994), Australian Poetic Satire (Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, 1995), Samuel Johnson in Marrickville: Selected Poems, Arc, UK, 2001, Interactions: Essays on the Literature and Culture of the Asia-Pacific Region, (University of Western Australia Press, 2000), Attuned to Alien Moonlight: The Poetry of Bruce Dawe, (University of Queensland Press, 2002), Interactions: Essays on the Literature and Culture of the Asia-Pacific Region, (University of Western Australia Press, 2000).    Photo of Dennis Haskell courtesy of FACP, 2001. Dennis Haskell can be contacted at: Email: dhaskell (át) cyllene (dót) uwa (dót) au    Read More On Dennis Haskell here

Don Hatcher (D.O.B. - )

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Lyn Hatherley (D.O.B. - )

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Susan Hawthorne (1951 - ) 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 Studies at Victoria University, Melbourne. She has recently performed an aerials segment - Elisabetta's Story - as part of the annual Performing Older Women's Circus show at the North Melbourne Town Hall. Susan is currently working on a poetry collection titled Unstopped Mouths. Susan Hawthorne's publications include: Poetry: The Language in My Tongue in Four New Poets, (Penguin Australia, 1993), Bird, (Spinifex Press, 1999), Novel: The Falling Women, (publisher unknown, 1992/2003). Non-Fiction: Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation and Bio/diversity, (publisher unknown, 2002). Anthology: September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives, (co-edited with Bronwyn Winter, publisher unknown, 2002), Cat Tales: The Meaning of Cats in Women's Lives, (co-edited with Jan Fook & Renate Klein, Spinifex Press, 2003).    Photo of Susan Hawthorne by NACED, 2003.

Mike Heald (1959 - ) Mike Heald was born in Grimsby, England, and migrated to Australia with his family in 1972, aged 12. After an Arts degree at the University of Western Australia, he travelled in Europe in the early eighties, supporting himself by working as a professional squash player. Returning to Perth, he taught in secondary schools for a couple of years, before undertaking a PhD in contemporary Western Australian poetry, which he completed in 1998. He now live in Ballarat, and teaches at Trinity College, University of Melbourne. Mike Heald's publications include: Poetry: Occasions, (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1996), Body-flame, (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1999).    Photo of poet by photographer, year.

Ian Healy (1919 - ????)

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Tim Heffernan (D.O.B. - ) Tim Heffernan lives in Wollongong on a hill between the escarpment and the sea with Karen and their daughters Lucy and Elizabeth. He was born in Hay (New South Wales) in 1959, into a teaching family. He grew up in the country villages and towns of Swan Creek, Dalton, Uranquinty and Wagga and spent twenty years teaching English in high schools in the Riverina and South Coast. During this time he published educational research for the National Schools Network (Innovating and Changing Together, 1998) & (Reflection in Action, 1996) and was a workplace activist for the NSW Teachers Federation and contributor to their journal, Education. Tim began writing poetry at the end of the seventies while at university and was first published in 1985 in The Wagga Daily Advertiser (‘Windows’ and ‘Return’). In the same year his work was featured in an interview on the local television station, RVN 2. Recently the internet has become a seductive medium. Tim’s poem ‘Machined Words’ was selected for the OZPOET Showcase in January 2002 and his peace offering, ‘In my tree’, was part of the Poets Union’s anthology of poems delivered to John Howard prior to the invasion of Iraq. A second olive branch, ‘Disarming’, became part of The Thylazine Foundation’s Australian Artists & Writers for Peace in 2005. Tim left teaching in 2005 and now works as a carer for people with disabilities.    Photo of Tim Heffernan by Elizabeth Patricia Heffernan, 2005. Timothy Heffernan can be contacted at Email: tkheffernan (át) bigpond (dót) com

Sally Heinrich (D.O.B. - )

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David Helfgott (1947 - ) David Helfgott is an Australian pianist whose life inspired Australian director Scott Hicks' Oscar-winning film Shine. He is as well known for having schizoaffective disorder as for his piano playing. Helfgott became known as a child prodigy after his father started teaching him the piano when he was six. When he was ten years old he studied under Frank Arndt, a Perth piano teacher, and won several local competitions, sometimes alone and sometimes with his elder sister Margaret Helfgott. When he was nineteen, he won a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Music in London, England for three years, where he studied under Cyril Smith. He also took part in several Australian Broadcasting Corporation concerts. In 1984, after performing for some years at a Perth wine bar called Riccardo's, he met astrologer Gillian Murray. Some months later they married, and he continued a successful playing career throughout the 1980s and 1990s in both Australia and Europe. David Helfgott now lives in Happy Valley in New South Wales with his second wife, Gillian. He continues to perform concerts at his home, 'Heaven'. In December 1999, David Helfgott was the opener for the "Geniuses, Savants and Prodigies" conference of Allan Snyder's Centre for the Mind. He also appeared on rock group Silverchair's album Neon Ballroom    Photo of David Helfgott by photographer unknown, year unknown. David Helfgott can be contacted at: Email: helfgott (át) bigpond (dót) (com)   Go to David Helfgott's website

Kris Hemensley (1946 - ) Kris Hemensley was born on the Isle of Wight in 1946 and came to Australia when he was twenty. Saw Australia as sailor in 1965, emigrated in 1966. Has always lived in Melbourne, and in Dorset/England since late 80s. He soon became a driving force in the Melbourne literary world, becoming involved in poetry workshops at La Mama, editing the roneod magazines Our Glass, The Ear in a Wheatfield, and many others, writing detailed and informative reviews and commentary on Australian and international poetry and arguing for a forward-looking, international and experimentalist approach. He has published more than twenty books of poetry, prose and writing for children and has written many experimental plays. He manages Collected Works bookshop in Melbourne. Books of poetry include an early selected poems, Domestications (1974); The Poem of the Clear Eye (1975); A Mile From Poetry (1979). Many chapbooks since 1968 published in Australia & England. Included in several anthologies including, Applestealers (1974), The New Australian Poetry (1978), Australian Verse (1998). Writes fiction & has been a playwright with stage & radio productions of his work since 1967. A commentator on & reviewer of poetry since the 1970s.    Photo of Kris Hemensley by photographer, year. Kris Hemensley is a member of collective which ran Collected Works Bookshop in melbourne since 1984 and its director since the group dispersed abt 1992. Received Christopher Brennan Award in 2005. Was invited by Betty Burstall to instigate the Poets' Workshop readings at La Mama theatre in 1968. Edited his own magazines from 1968 to 1985. Taught creative-writing in the adult education & TAFE sector between 1976 & 1987. Has been on writing organisation's boards, committees, & literary juries since the 1960s. Kris Hemensley can be contacted at Email: collectedworks (át) lycos (dót) com   Go to Kris Hemensley's website

Kristin Henry (D.O.B. - )

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Xavier Herbert (D.O.B. - ????) Insert biographical details.    Photo of Xavier Herbert by Jacqueline Mitelman, 1988.

Steven Herrick (1958 - ) Steven Herrick was born in Brisbane on New Years Eve. He has had eleven books published - mostly for children and young adults. The spangled drongo won the NSW Premiers Literary Award 2000 (Patricia Wrightson Prize) and his three other verse-novels were all shortlisted for the Nsw Premiers Literary Awards and the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards. Steven lives in the Blue Mountains with his partner, and two children. He plays striker for the Wentworth Falls 0/35 soccer team. Steven Herrick's publications include: Poetry: The spangled drongo, (publisher unknown, year unknown); Novel: Tom Jones Saves the World, (verse-novel), (University of Queensland Press, 2002), Do-wrong Ron, (verse-novel), (Allen & Unwin, 2003).    Photo of Steven Herrick by photographer unknown, year unknown. Steven Herrick can be contacted at:    Go here for information on Steven Herrick

Matt Hetherington (D.O.B. - ) I'm a writer and musician based in Melbourne. I've had over 150 poems and haiku published in journals, magazines, and anthologies throughout Australia, the UK, and America, including The Best Australian Poems 2004, Masthead, Blue Dog, Said the Rat!, Social Alternatives, Quadrant, Space, Spoken In One Strange Word: The Queensland Poetry Festival Anthology, SALT-LICK, Cordite, Writing Australia, Ars Poetica, SideWaLK, Tiny Epics, Mod-Piece, Famous Reporter, Hobo, Melbourne Poets Live, The Perfect Diary, New England Review, Frogpond, First and Second Australian Haiku Anthology. 'Spoken Word' pieces appear on the compilation CD's Going Down Swinging 2000, spoken in one strange word, and Poetry for Peace, and have been broadcast on television (Channel 31), and on radio shows 'Aural Text' (3RRR), 'The Sunday Show' (ABC 774 AM) and 'Artery' (JJJ). I've translated works from Persian (with Ali Alizadeh, in Eyes in Times of War, Salt Modern Poets, 2006), Spanish, French, and Turkish (the poetry of Hidayet Ceylan in bulayt bulayt: poetry in four languages, World Poetry anthology, 2006). My own poetry and haiku have been translated into Arabic, Russian, German (DAS GEWICHT DES GLUCKS, Kronach, Germany, 2004), and Dutch. I have written reviews and criticism for Cordite and in 2006, a selection of aphorisms from my notebooks appeared in the Seattle-based Impassio Press collection In Pieces: An Anthology of Fragmentary Writing. I'm a Committee Member of Clan Analogue Recordings Inc. and The Australian Haiku Society.    Photo of Matt Hetherington by photographer unknown, year unknown. Matt Hetherington can be contacted at Email: mattheth (át) gmail (dót) com   Go to Matt Hetherington's website

Paul Hetherington (D.O.B. - ) Paul Hetherington lives in Canberra. His poems have been represented in numerous Australian and international literary journals and magazines and have been widely anthologised. He won the 1996 Australian Capital Territory Book of the Year Award (for Shadow Swimmer) and the 1997 ANUTECH Poetry Prize. He was awarded a Chief Minister’s ACT Creative Arts Fellowship for 2002. His PhD on the poetry of Emily Dickinson was completed at The University of Western Australia and he is currently Director of the Publications and Events Branch at the National Library of Australia. He is editor of the monthly magazine National Library of Australia News (since 1990), and was founding editor of the quarterly humanities journal Voices, 26 issues of which were published by the National Library from 1991 to 1997. He is a former editor of the monthly multi-arts magazine Fremantle Arts Review and former Poetry Editor for the Australian Capital Territory’s major daily newspaper The Canberra Times. Paul Hetherington's publications include: Poetry: Mapping Wildwood Road, (Pamphlet Poets, series one, no. 4), (National Library of Australia, 1990), Acts Themselves Trivial, (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1991), The Dancing Scorpion, (Molonglo Press, 1993), Shadow Swimmer, (Molonglo Press, 1995), Canvas Light, (Molonglo Press, 1998), Stepping Away: Selected Poems, (Molonglo Press, 2001).    Photo of Paul Hetherington by Loui Seselja, 1995.

Dorothy Hewett (1923 - 2002) Dorothy Hewett was born in Perth, Western Australia, was brought up on a wheat and sheep farm. She wrote poems from an early age and was educated by correspondence lessons until she turned twelve. Much of her poetry is still influenced by these early years. Her father, a convinced conservationist, strongly influenced her life, teaching her the names of native birds, plants and animals. For years he tried to influence the West Australian Agricultural Department to give the farmers free trees to plant and nurture in a plan for reaforrestation to contain the rising salt, but was met only with derision. She has published 11 volumes of poetry, 3 novels, and an autobiography. Most of her 21 plays have been performed by theatre companies in Australia. She wrote The Empty Room, the second volume of her autobiography and a play, Nowhere, for the 25th anniversary of the Playhouse Theatre in Melbourne. She has won many awards for her work, been writer-in-residence at many Australian Universities, and lectured extensively on Australian Literature. Last year she opened the Adelaide Writers' Festival with an attack on the present government for their attitudes to the Arts, the environment and Aborigines. She is a long-time supporter of Aboriginal land rights, the greening of Australia and the importance of the Arts. She has received a life time emeritus grant from the Australia Council.    Photo of Dorothy Hewett Merv Lilley, 1983. Dorothy Hewett can be contacted at:    Go here for information on Dorothy Hewett

Jack Hibbard (D.O.B. - )

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Kelly Hickey (D.O.B. - )

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Charles Higgam (1931 - )

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Steve Hills (D.O.B. - )

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Leigh Hobbs (D.O.B. - )

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Philip Hodgins (1959 - 1995) Philip Hodgin's was winner of the New South Wales Premiers Prize for Poetry (1986) for his first book, Blood and Bone, and winner of an Australian Bicentennial Literary Award with Down the Lake with Half a Chook (1988). His latest collection was nominated as the Times Literary Supplement International Book of the Year. Hodgins reputation in Australia was boosted by the inclusion of his work, Dispossesed, on the VCE syllabus. His growing reknown overseas was fostered by the publication of his work in such outlets as the Paris Review, the New Yorker and the TLS. Hodgins fought a long and determined battle with leukemia.    Photo of Philip Hodgins courtesy of Duffy and Snellgrove, 2002.

Liz Hoffman (D.O.B. - )

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Lucy Holt (D.O.B. - ) Lucy Holt is a Melbourne-based writer and undergraduate student in History and Gender Studies. Her first poetry collection, Stories of Bird, will be published in late 2005 as part of a Poets Union (NSW) Emerging Writers' Fellowship. Her 'Self-Portrait with Red Bird' won the 2005 Woorilla Prize. Her poems can be found in international journals softblow (Singapore), nthposition (Canada & UK), Feminist Studies (USA), Annetna Nepo (USA) and Stylus (Australia), and national publications Meanjin, Verandah, Poetrix and My Perfect Diary.    Photo of Lucy Holt by photographer unknown, 2005. Lucy Holt can be contacted at Email: lucykholt (át) optus (net) (dót) com (dót)au

Gershon Holtz (D.O.B. - ) Gershon Holtz is the nom de plume of Gary Maller playing the role of historical muse. In 2004 Gary was awarded a major grant from Arts Queensland to write a collection of poems exploring narratives and themes in Renaissance Italian art. His previous collections Nights in the Gardens of Spain (Post Pressed, 2002) and Night Breathing (Metro Arts Press, 1993) continue to receive excellent reviews in Australia and abroad. A founding member of the Queensland Poetry Association, Gary was an active participant in Amnesty Poetry readings at Metro Arts Brisbane during the early 1990s. Residing in Maleny, Queensland, in addition to poetry Gary writes for publications and corporations in Australia and the USA. He holds a first class honours degree in the philosophy of language.    Photo of Gershon Holtz by Natalya Maller, 2004. Gershon Holtz can be contacted at: Email: gary (át) literati (dót) (com) (dót) au    Go to Gershon Holtz's website

Alec Hope (1907 - 2000) A. D. Hope as born in Cooma, in the Southern tablelands of New South Wales. His father was a Presbyterian minister, and Hope spent his childhood in New South Wales and the remote Tasmanian countryside. He studied at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1928, and took up a scholarship to Oxford University. Like James McAuley, he failed to gain an academic post at first, and after a hesitant start became a lecturer in education at the Sydney Teachers’ College. Eventually he took up academic posts in Melbourne and Canberra, where he held the chair of English at the Australian National University. In his later years his office was situated in the eponymous A D Hope Building. His first book, The Wandering Islands, was published in 1955 when he was in his late forties, and he went on to publish over fifteen collections of poetry and many critical reviews and essays, winning many prizes and awards in the process. His poetry is considered technically orthodox and formally conservative, with a strong sexual element. He was married with three children.    Photo of A. D. Hope by Jenni Mitchell, year unknown.

Ada Verdum Howell (1902 - 1981)

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Janet Howie (D.O.B. - )

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Peter Hopegood (1881 - ????)

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Robert Hughes - Writer, Historian (D.O.B. - )

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Dr. Coral Hull (1965 - ) Dr. Coral Hull is an established writer and photographer who has authored over fifty books of poetry, fiction, artwork and digital photography. Born with Autism in 1965, she was raised under disadvantaged circumstances in the working class suburb of Liverpool in Sydney's outer west. Coral became concerned with issues of social justice and spirituality from an early age. She wrote her first poem about a rainforest at age thirteen. She became a vegan and an animal rights advocate, who has since spent much of her life working voluntarily on behalf of animals and the environment, both as an individual and for various non-profit organisations. Coral is the Director of The Thylazine Foundation: Arts, Ethics & Literature and is the Executive Editor and Publisher of Thylazine; an annual ezine featuring articles, poetry, interviews, reviews, photographs and the recent work of Australian writers and artists with a special interest in indigenous issues, arts and disability, landscape and animals. Coral is a supporter of 'free culture' and keeping art and information in the public domain for educational purposes. Coral Hull's books are now published through her own label Artesian Productions, with all profits going to charitable work of The Thylazine Foundation assisting animals and children in The Northern Territory. Coral holds a Doctor of Creative Arts Degree (Creative Writing Major) from the University of Wollongong in NSW.     Coral Hull, Elliot Hotel, Elliot, Northern Territory, Australia (Photo by Coral Hull, 2001). Dr. Coral Hull can be contacted at: Postal Address: Artesian Productions GPO Box 1480, Darwin, NT, 0801, Australia. Email: artesianproductions (át) thylazine (dót) (órg)   Go to Artesian Productions   Go to Coral Hull's website Dr. Coral Hull's creative work can now be used free of charge in the public domain under the Creative Commons License. Dr. Hull supports the concept of FREE CULTURE both in Australia and on the world wide web.

Barry Humphries (1934 - ????)

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Julie Hunt (D.O.B. - )

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L. J. Huppatz (D.O.B. - ) D. J. Huppatz is a writer who lives in Melbourne, Australia. He has published a wide variety of writing including articles and reviews on contemporary art, catalogue essays, book reviews, poetry and fiction. His catalogue essays have accompanied exhibitions at 200 Gertrude St.(Melbourne), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), 1st Floor (Melbourne) and the Hong Kong Heritage Museum. His art writing has appeared regularly in KArt/Text, Frieze (UK), Broadsheet, LOG (New Zealand), Art AsiaPacific and GLOBE e-journal. His critical and creative writing have appeared in the literary journals Sulfur (US), Tinfish (US), Heat, Meanjin, Southerly, Overland, Ulitarra and Blast. In 1994 he became a founding member of 1st Floor, an artist-run gallery in Melbourne. 1st Floor is an art space which focuses on contemporary art, such as collaborations between artists and writers. Out of this experience with 1st Floor he founded Textbase, a collective of writers working in contemporary art spaces and has coordinated many visual art projects with writers. He also teaches at Swinburne University of Technology in the Design History and Critical Theory Department and has a PhD on contemporary design in Hong Kong. D. J. Huppatz's publications include: Poetry: The Week Sonnets, (chapbook), (Textbase Publications, 1999), Sealer's Cove, (chapbook), (Textbase Publications, 2000), American Songs, (chapbook), (Textbase Publications, 2001).    Photo of D. J. Huppatz by photographer unknown, 2000. D. J. Huppatz can be contacted at: Email: textbase (át) textbase (dót) (net)   Go to Textbase

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