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Frederick T. Macartney (1887 - ????)

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Noel Mscainish (1926 - )

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Kristina Mackay (D.O.B. - ) Born in Melbourne in 1964, I have travelled extensively throughout Australia living and working in all states. In 1987 I spent time in Indonesia, Thailand and India. I worked as a barmaid and a cleaner for 15 years, and with adults who have intellectual disabilities. I completed a Bachelor of Arts in 1992 majoring in Community Studies and English Literature and a teaching Diploma in 2000, qualifying me to teach English and Japanese. Over the last 14 years I have been a sole parent. I have worked voluntary in the community-housing sector, a resource centre, with youth services and in primary and secondary schools helping children develop their literacy. Six years ago I started living nomadically and am home-educating my daughter with the help of my boyfriend. We are currently living in Alice Springs where I am developing a healing business. I am writing a series of short stories about my life’s travels and healing journey, of which Three Core Problems is a part. My aim is to create a vehicle of social change through personal healing, and personal healing through social change may be more widely explored, understood and put into practice.    Photo of Kristina Mackay by photographer unknown, year unknown.

Dorothy Mackellar (1885 - 1968) Insert biographical details.    Photo of poet by photographer, year. Dorothy MacKellar's publications include: Insert publications.

Kenneth MacKenzie (1913 - 1955)

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Garth Madsen (D.O.B. - )

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Caroline Mageri (D.O.B. - )

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Jennifer Maiden (1949 - ) Jennifer Maiden was born in Penrith, N.S.W. She graduated from Macquarie University with a B.A. in 1974. She has published 14 books: 12 poetry collections and 2 novels. She has been awarded the Southerly English Association Prize, the Harry Jones Memorial Prize, the Grenfell Henry Lawson Prize, the N.S.W. Premier's Kenneth Slessor Prize twice, the Victorian Premier's C.J. Dennis Prize, and the F.A.W. Christopher Brennan Prize for a lifetime of achievement in literature. She has also been awarded several fellowships by the Australia Council.    Photo of Jennifer Maiden by Katharine Margot Toohey, 2001. She has been Writer in Residence at the University of Western Sydney, Australian National University, Springwood Highschool, and the N.S.W. Torture and Trauma Rehabilitation Unit, where she co-authored a literary workshop manual with the then director, Margaret Cunningham. Jennifer Maiden has conducted numerous writing workshops for literary and community organisations, and educational institutions. She has published many book reviews, stories, essays and poems, including in Southerly, Overland, Heat, Australian Book Review, Meanjin, Australian Literary Studies, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Bulletin, The Australian, Canberra Times, Scripsi, Makar, The Ear in a Wheatfield, Adelaide Advertiser, Southern Review, LinQ, New Poetry, Poetry Australia, Free Poetry, Westerly, Prairie Schooner, The Berkeley Poetry Review and Sud, and has been performed on ABC Radio. Jennifer Maiden's publications include: Poetry: Tactics, (UQP, 1974), The Problem of Evil, (Prism, 1975), The Occupying Forces, (Gargoyle, 1975), Mortal Details, (Rigmarole, 1977), Birthstones, (Angus & Robertson, 1978), The Border Loss, (Angus & Robertson, 1979), For the Left Hand, (South Head Press (issue 78 of Poetry Australia), 1981), The Trust, (Black Lightning, 1988), Bastille Day, (National Library of Australia, 1990), Selected Poems of Jennifer Maiden, (Penguin, 1990), The Winter Baby, (Angus & Robertson, 1990), Acoustic Shadow, (Penguin, 1993), Mines, (Paperbark Press, 1999); Fiction: The Terms, (novel), (Hale & Iremonger, 1982), Play With Knives, (Allen & Unwin, 1990), Play With Knives, was also published in German translation as 'Ein Messer im Haus' by dtv, Munich, in 1994.

Naomi Mairou (D.O.B. - )

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Ern Malley (1918 - 1943) Ern Malley was a hoax poet concocted by James McAuley and Harold Stewart in 1943. In a single afternoon, they claimed, they wrote 16 poems in an incoherent parody of the style of Dylan Thomas, Henry Treece and other modernist experimental poets, and sent them to Max Harris, the 22-year-old editor of Angry Penguins. Harris took the bait and published the poems in 1944, trumpeting them as the work of a recently-dead young genius. The hoax was soon exposed and the resulting world-wide publicity damaged Harris’s career. Malley’s work had a strong influence on many poets including the young John Ashbery, and has long been a focus of conflict and disagreement.    Photo of poet by photographer, year. Ern Malley's publications include: Insert publications.

John Malone (D.O.B. - )

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David Malouf (1934 - ) David Malouf grew up in Brisbane and taught school in England for a decade in the 1960s, and lectured at the University of Sydney in the 1970s. His first book of poems was Bicycle and Other Poems, (UQP, 1970) and he has gone on to write many more, though he is best known as a novelist. His eight novels have won many literary prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Prix Femina Etranger and the inaugural IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He has also written opera libretti, collections of essays, novellas, drama and short fiction. David Malouf lives in Sydney.    Photo of David Malouf by photographer unknown, year unknown. David Malouf's publications include: Insert publications.

Chris Mansell (1953 - ) Chris Mansell was born in Sydney, Australia. She has a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney. In 1978 she founded the literary magazine Compass poetry & prose with Dane Thwaites which she edited until 1987. Chris Mansell's collection of poems, Shining like a Jinx, won the Amelia Chapbook Award, USA. From 1987 until early 1989 she was a part-time lecturer in creative writing at the University of Wollongong. In 1988 she attended the National Institute of Dramatic Arts' (NIDA) Playwright's Studio. In 1989 she was a full-time lecturer in creative writing at the University of Western Sydney, Macarthur. She has lectured in writing at the University of Wollongong and the University of Western Sydney and been writer in residence at the University of Southern Queensland, Curtin University and with a number of theatre groups. She attended NIDA's Playwrights Studio. Her work has won some prizes and been short-listed for others. In 1993 she took up a Writing Fellowship from the Literature Board of the Australia Council. The following year she was awarded an Australia Council Community Writer's Fellowship in the Shoalhaven district of New South Wales. In 1995 she was a Community Artist with Shoalhaven City Council and wrote, with Mad Talent Theatre Group, their new play, Why?.    Photo of Chris Mansell by William Sturgess, 2000. Her play Some Sunny Day written for the Kiama Council for the Australia Remembers project was performed there in October/November 1995. The following year she was awarded an Australia Council Community Writer's Fellowship in the Shoalhaven district of New South Wales. Her collection of poems Day Easy Sunlight Fine was short-listed for the National Book Council's Banjo Awards. She is currently mentor to four poets under the Australia Council Mentorship Scheme and has just finished a prose manuscript called The Choice of Memory. She has been mentor to a number of up and coming Australian poets and is publisher of PressPress. Chris Mansell's publications include: Poetry: Delta (publisher unknown, 1978), Head, Heart, & Stone (Fling Poetry, 1982), Redshift/Blueshift (Five Islands Press, 1988), Raptors Blue (audio cassette with music by Rob Cousins), publisher unknown, year unknown, Shining like a Jinx (chapbook), (Amelia, year unknown), Day Easy Sunlight Fine in Hot Collation (Penguin Books, 1995), The Fickle Brat (Interactive Press, 2001), talking the Rainbow (PressPress, 2002), The Fickle Brat (audio + text CD poetry) (Interactive Press, 2002), Childrens: Little Wombat (New Holland, 1996).

John Manifold (1915 - 1985)

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Nicholas Mansfield (D.O.B. - )

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Billy Marshall-Stoneking (1947 - ) Billy Marshall-Stoneking was born in Orlando, Florida and has been living and working in Australia since the early 70s. In the early 1980s, he edited The Stories of Obed Raggett, the first collection of original stories written by an Aboriginal writer in his own language (published bi-lingually in Pintupi/English parallel text). Billy's poetry has appeared in The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse (ed. by Les Murray), The Penguin Book of Contemporary Australian Poetry (ed. by John Tranter), and Made in Australia. He is also featured in Pi O's cult anthology, Off the Record (Penguin Books, 1985). In 1991, he co-wrote and staged the first-ever poet-written, poet-acted and produced, verse play, Call It Poetry/Tonight, at the Sydney Theatre Company's Studio Theatre at the Wharf, that was subsequently aired Australian national television. Billy's first, full-length dramatic play, Sixteen Words For Water (published by Harper/Collins in 1991), has has enjoyed successful seaons in the USA, the UK and Australia/New Zealand. In the late 1990s, ABC Radio National produced a radio version. Much of Billy's work has been influenced and continues to be influenced by his long association with tribal Aboriginal people. He is conversant in several Aboriginal dialects, and his film documentaries - Desert Stories, Nosepeg's Movie, and Pride & Prejudice draw heavily on his time spent in the desert. Among his many script-editing credits is the Australian film, Chopper which topped the awards list at the 2000 AFI Awards in Sydney. Currently, he is head of the MA writing programme at the Australian, Film, Television and Radio School.    Photo of Billy Marshall-Stoneking by Billy Marshall-Stoneking, 2000. Billy Marshall-Stoneking's publications include: Singing the Snake (Harper/Collins, 1990), Lasseter: In Quest of Gold (Hodder & Stoughton, 1989), The Stories of Obed Raggett (editor), (Alternative Co-op Press, Sydney, 1980), Call It Poetry/Tonight (verse play) (Sydney Theatre Company's Studio Theatre at the Wharf, 1991), Sixteen Words For Water (play), (Harper/Collins, 1991), The Singing Land (play), (CAT production, 1993), Off Limits (play), (Sydney Opera House, 1992).

Charlee Marshall (D.O.B. - )

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David Martin (1915 - 1997)

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Philip Martin (1931 - )

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Lorraine Marwood (1953 - ) Lorraine Marwood was born and raised in Bendigo, Victoria. She trained as a primary school teacher and before marriage began to be briefly published as a poet. But raising six children put writing on hold until she turned 40, then the spill of words could not be held back. For the past ten years Lorraine has been widely published in journals throughout Australia, USA, UK, Canada. She has also been part of the editing team for Famous Reporter and is currently the Australian editor of the UK literary magazine Tears in the Fence. Loraine also holds a Graduate Diploma of Literacy and a Bachelor of Education. Lorraine's work is widely influenced by her rural life, but wants to write from a contemporary non-Henry Lawson vantage. There is scope to tell the rural life as it is. Her writing looks to the celebration of life. Lately Lorraine has also branched into children's writing and had her first volume of children's poetry published in 2002. Her work was recently anthologized in Random House publication 100 poems for Australian children. She has five children's books to her credit.    Photo of Lorraine Marwood by photographer, year. Lorraine Marwood can be contacted at: Email: lmarwood (át) lorrainemarwood (dót) com   Go to Lorraine Marwood's website

John Mateer (1971 - ) John Mateer was born in Roodepoort, South Africa. Since 1989 he has lived in Australia, first in Perth, then in Melbourne, where he works as an art critic. He has read his work at Poetry Africa 2001 in Durban, South Africa, at the Teater Utan Kayu in Jakarta, Indonesia, and at the 62nd World Congress of PEN, as well as at festivals and conferences in Australia. He has published a folio of poems for performance titled The Civic Poems. A number of his chapbooks have appeared in Australia, South Africa and Indonesia. He has been invited to read his work at Poetry Africa in Durban, South Africa, at the Teater Utan Kayu in Jakarta, Indonesia, at the 62nd World Congress of PEN, and at various australian writers festivals. In 1998-99 he was writer-in-residence at the Australia Centre Medan in North Sumatra, Indonesia. He will be Asialink's writer-in-residence in Kyoto, Japan in 2002. Currently he lives in melbourne where he teaches a poetry course at the University of melbourne and works as an art critic. His non-fiction and criticism include articles on the contemporary artists Bill Viola, Domineco de Clario and Brian Blanchflower, as well as the essays on his own work, 'The Use of Burning Swans: on iconoclastic language' and 'An African City: a poem and reflections on a ghoastdeamon'. In 2000 an essay on his work by Michael Heald, 'Talking with Yagan's Head', was published in the journal Australian Literary Studies.    Photo of John Mateer by Melissa Mateer, 2001. John Mateer's publications include: Poetry: The Civic Poems, (folio), [SC Editions, 1997, Perth), (ECHO), (chapbook) [The Zero Press, 1998, Johannesburg], Spitting Out Seeds, (chapbook), [Anatman, 1999, Melbourne], Mister! Mister! Mister!, (chapbook) [Australia Centre Medan, 1999, Medan], Makwerekwere, (chapbook) [The Zero Press, 2002, Johannesburg], Burning Swans, (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1994), Anachronism, (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1997), Barefoot Speech (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2000), Loanwords, (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2002).

Ray Mathew (1929 - )

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Harley Mathews (1889 - 1968)

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Furnley Maurice (1881 - 1942)

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Rebecca Maxwell (D.O.B. - )

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Robert Maxwell (1945 - ) Robert Maxwell has been a composer, musician, bookbinder and poet since his early twenties. He holds a BA from Melbourne University, two education diplomas and a Master's Degree in Counselling Psychology. Currently he works three days in a primary school helping young children and families to adjust to difficult situations. On the other days he plays and records music, writes poetry and recently began creating art in his home studio. Robert taught English, politics and music for over twelve years in Victorian community (free) schools. At one of these he met and befriended Tom the Poet (see Thom the World Poet below). In 2005 Robert started an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts at the Queensland College of the Arts. Currently he is working on a series of abstract landscapes for exhibition. He lives in Brisbane with his wife Jenny.    Photo of Robert Maxwell by Dawn Baker, 2002. Robert Maxwell's creative achievements include: Recorded Music: Three CDs as a guitarist with Thom the World Poet (2002-2004), a solo Classical Guitar CD (2001), a CD with Quanto (a classical guitar duo) playing six sonatas of F. Carulli and a CD compilation of Robert's compositions for a variety of instruments, voices and electronics (1972 - 2001). Broadcasts: His musical composition "Radical Education" for voice and electronics has been played on ABC radio (1975). Concerts: Robert has given solo concerts in Melbourne and appeared as a guitarist in the opera Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) in 1975. In Brisbane he has performed at regular community concerts with Quanto, as a solo guitarist and as a singer and bass player in the band "The Browngrass Boys" (30 concerts).    Photo of Robert Maxwell and Jenny by Karina Hall, 2005. The band also performs regular concerts to raise money for refugees and other disadvantaged groups. Exhibitions: He has included paintings in two group exhibitions at the Macgregor Summer School in Toowoomba, Queensland. The next stage of Robert's creative work will combine psychology, music and visual arts. Go to Robert Maxwell's website

Don Maynard (1937 - )

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Sally Mazak (D.O.B. - )

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Terry McArthur (The Cube) (D.O.B. - ) Terry McArthur is a Poet Songwriter Playwright. "..When I was twelve I wrote a poem and showed it to my mother. It was at this moment she realised her eldest son would tread the same path as my father, a Big River bush poet, who had taken to recording his poems on a two track over country and western licks. She was right. Except for the country and western part, took to recording my poems over beats, synths, and wild mercury guitars. I discovered Dylan, Zappa, Hendrix. I devoured Marquez and Kazantzakis. Primo Levi showed me secret paths to the self. Muktananda awoke the ancient kundalini serpent. Van Morrison stirred the Irish in me. I met Laurie Anderson in a Surry Hills lift. Ted Hughes, Leonard Cohen, and Robbie Robinson hovered like guardian angels. And so I wrote in the freeze of New England winters, by the monsoon rain of Belllingen summers, under the yawning blue of Bali sky, from the top floor of New York hotels, on the boardwalk overlooking St Kilda Beach, behind the doors of a Rozelle warehouse. This is my writing life.." Since 2001 Terry has been one half of The Cube, a Sydney based band melding spoken word with sung vocals and beats. The Cube have just released their debut album Permanent Scars on Bronze Records (MGM). Terry is currently working on Walking Skin, a book of poems and lyrics.    Photo of Terry McArthur by Lainie Brown, 2003. Terry McArthur's publications include: Print: Upland with Arthur Chaffey and Wayne Von Nida, (New England University Press), The Exile, (Fat Possum Press), Holes In The Evening, (an anthology of New England poets edited by Michael Sharkey (Fat Possum Press), The Tin Wash Dish, (an anthology edited by John Tranter ABC Books). Plays: Madelin, Setting Sail For Alpha, The Bearded Lady's Daughters, Naratic Visions* *with the assistance of the Australia Council. Songs: Communication recorded by John Farnham and Danni'elle Gaha (BMG) Always There recorded by Judith Durham as title track of her solo album (EMI ); Sugar Loaf Hill recorded by Felicity for album Felcity (EMI ); Taking It All Away/ Can We Meet Again recorded by Hello Hello (EMI); The Day Donald Wasn't by TDDW (Ra); Popular Romance/Ultimo recorded by network (Arrival Records); Common Ground recorded by Bruce Woodley for Anthem: A Celebration of Australia. (ABC Records). Terry McArthur can be contacted at Email: terrym (át) aol7 (dót) com (dót) au   Go to The Cube website

James McAuley (1917 - 1976 ) James McAuley was born in the Sydney suburb of Lakemba, and attended Fort Street High School and the University of Sydney. He wrote an MA thesis on the topic of Symbolism and poetics, and was awarded a university Medal. In his own poetry he steered away from symbolism as he grew into his thirties. He enjoyed his university years, being noted for his skills as a jazz pianist at parties, and was active as a writer and editor, though he failed to get the academic appointment he had hoped for, and initially worked as a schoolteacher. Eventually he found work with the Australian forces administering New Guinea during and after World War II. His attachment to New Guinea was strong strand in his early life and he was noted for his skilled scholarly and administrative work in the Pacific. In 1943 James McAuley and Harold Stewart, then in Melbourne with the Army, concocted sixteen poems (or seventeen, if you count a coda as a separate poem) in the name of a fictional recently-dead poet, Ern Malley, and sent them to Angry Penguins, an experimental magazine edited by the 22-year-old Max Harris.    Photo of poet by photographer, year. Harris took the bait, published and praised the poems, and found his reputation as an editor wrecked when the hoax was exposed. McAuley founded the anti-Communist political and cultural journal Quadrant in 1956, and worked on it tirelessly until his death. Like Encounter in Britain, the magazine was supported for many years by unacknowledged funds from the CIA channelled through the Ford Foundation. Quadrant’s energetic support for a bellicose role for Australian troops in the Vietnam war was central to the right-wing cause in Australia, and alienated many of the young Australian men who were liable for the military draft. Dozens of middle-generation and older poets protested against the war, including David Malouf and A D Hope, several young poets went to jail for their anti-conscription beliefs, including Alan Gould, and by the early 1970s an entire generation (and a majority of Australian voters) had turned against the values that McAuley and Quadrant exemplified. For most of his life McAuley suffered from dreadful nightmares and he sometimes claimed to fear for his sanity. The Catholicism to which he converted as a young man helped to calm his demons. Many of his middle-period poems, such as the lengthy “Captain Quiros”, about an early Pacific explorer, are rhetorically stiff and earnest, and seem to betray the promise of his early symbolist-influenced poems, which are vigorous and bright. His later poems, though, written during his losing battle with cancer, are restrained, bleak, cleanly-wrought and very moving. James McAuley's publications include: Insert publications.

Ian McBryde (1953 - ) Canadian-born poet Ian McBryde has been a long term resident of Australia. He is well-published both in Australia and many countries overseas, among them Germany, Japan, Greece, the UK, Belgium, Canada, and the USA. His poetry has also been translated into Greek, Spanish and Japanese. He has performed his work at a multitude of Australian venues and writers festivals including Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane over the past twelve years, and has featured live in Canada, the UK, and the USA. He has also read his poetry on radio and television in Australia and the USA.    Photo of Ian McBryde by Dennis Paterson, 2001. Ian McBryde's publications include: Poetry: The Shade of Angels, (Radial Press, 1991), The Familiar, (Hale & Iremonger, 1994), Flank, (Eaglemont Press, 1998), Equatorial, (Five Island Press, 2001).

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George Gordon McCrae (1833 - 1927)

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Hugh McCrae (1876 - 1958)

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Ronald McCuaig (1908 - )

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Frederick McCubbin - Artist (D.O.B. - )

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Nan McDonald (1921 - 1973)

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Roger McDonald (1941 - )

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Rosie McKague (D.O.B. - )

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Heath McKenzie (D.O.B. - )

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Chris McKimmie (D.O.B. - )

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Greg McLaren (D.O.B. - )

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Jill McDougall (D.O.B. - ) Jill McDougall writes poetry primarily for children. Her anthology Anna the Goanna and other poems was a Children's Book Council Notable Book in 2000. Jill has also had poems included in anthologies such as '100 Australian Poems for Children' (Random House). Her poems are regularly featured in magazines such as the NSW Schools Magazine and the NZ School Journal as well as those published by Pearson Longman. Her lively chant 'Traffic Light Rap' was published as a picture book in 2003. Jill also writes novels, chapter books and early readers for children. She is a full-time writer and manuscript assessor.    Photo of Jill McDougall by photographer unknown, year unknown. Jill McDougall's publications include: Insert publications.

Lorraine McGuigan (D.O.B. - )

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J. A. R. McKellar (1904 - 1932)

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Geraldine McKenzie (D.O.B. - )

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Colleen McLaughlin (D.O.B. - )

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Lex McLennan (D.O.B. - )

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Sandra Mcleod (1954 - 2004) Sandon Mcleod had all the wit and wisdom (and editing skills) to make her one of this country's great poets. Her poems that were steeped in the Australian landscape, the places she had seen and the people she had known - she was a sharp observer and rarely forgot a person or place. She also invested her poetry with same cheeky humour that those who know and love her remember so well. In her last few years before transcending her physical form she was responsible for the Overload Poetry Festival and Deadline poetry street-press. She has one son, Max, and a large extended family whose lives are still filled with her presence. Her partner Steve continues the work they began together as Overload Poetry Inc and hopes very much to do her proud.    Photo of poet by photographer, year. Sandra Mcleod's publications include: Insert publications. Steve Smart can be contacted at Email: overload_inc (át) yahoo (dót) com (dót) au   Go Overload Poetry Festival

Rhyll McMaster (1947 - ) Insert biographical details.    Photo of Rhyll McMaster courtesy of Brandl & Scheslinger, year unknown. The Rhyll McMaster's publications include: Insert publications.

Andrew McMillan (D.O.B. - )

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Julie McNeill (1963 - ) Julie McNeill arrived in Melbourne 1978 and wrote her first poems. Homeless at 16 managed to get through Yr 12 to the U18 dole. Wrote first journalism for 'Hard Times" newspaper for the Unemployed. Learned book-keeping for a year before getting depressed, moving to St.Kilda, discovered painting and writing for poetry performance. Founding member of 'Fringe Network' a resource for artists, and Youth Arts Co-ordinator for 'Melbourne Fringe Arts Festival' Met lots of life-long, loving poet friends at various reading venues. Performed multi-media 'Rites of Passage' 1985 in Melbourne theatres; inspired by birth of two daughters. Trained by husband Roy as a puppeteer, performing in schools and community venues throughout Australia for next 20 years. Continue to write poetry & prose & journalism for local online www.lowoodfernvalenews.com in Queensland. Recently using my creative skills and intelligence in work as Diversional Therapist in services for people with disabilities.    Photo of Julie McNeill by Roy McNeill, 2003. Julie McNeill's publications include: Insert publications. Julie McNeill can be contacted at Email: jewels (át) gil (dót) com (dót) au   Go to some of Julie McNeill's work

Philip Mead (1953 - ) Philip Mead was born in Brisbane and educated in Queensland, the UK and the US. He has been associated with poetry publishing, particularly little magazines, since 1972. From 1987 to 1994 he was Poetry Editor of Meanjin Quarterly magazine and Lockie Lecturer in Australian Writing at the University of Melbourne. He has edited, with John Tranter, the new Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry (1992). He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Journalism, and European Languages at the University of Tasmania.    Photo of poet by photographer, year. Phillip Mead's publications include: Insert publications.

Gina Mercer (D.O.B. - )

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Tim Metcalf (1961 - ) Born in 1961, Tim Metcalf is the author of three poetry books and recent recipient of the inaugural Rosemary Dobson award. He has published since 1989 in various literary journals in Australia, and his work has lately been solicited in the UK, USA, Singapore and India. He has held jobs ranging from cutting firewood and making soap to working as a flying doctor in the remote Northern Territory. He is poetry editor of Australian Family Physician and offers the literature of medicine to Australian National University medical students. He has presented a weekly community radio show, featuring poetry and local and visiting poets for 8 years in Bega, New South Wales, near which he lives with his partner and two daughters. He is secretary to the shire's Friends of the Libraries. Dr Metcalf is a GP psychiatrist for regional Community Health. Tim's book Into the No Zone, (Ginninderra Press, 2003) was highly commended ACT Publisher's Awards in 2004. His latest book is 'Verbal Medicine: 21 Contemporary Clinician-Poets of Australia and New Zealand' (Ginninderra Press July 2006).    Photo of Tim Metcalf by photographer unknown, year unknown. Tim Metcalf's publications include: Poetry: Corvus, (Ginninderra Press, 2001), Cut to the Word, (Ginninderra Press, 2002), Into the No Zone, (Ginninderra Press, 2003). Dr. Tim Metcalf can be contacted at Email: jke85628 (át) bigpond (dót) net (dót) au    Go to Tim Metcalf's website   Go To Ginninderra Press

Kate Middleton (D.O.B. - )

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David Miller (D.O.B. - )

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Ali Arjibuk Mills (D.O.B. - )

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Peter Minter (1967 - ) Peter Minter is a poet, editor and publisher living in Sydney. His first collection, Rhythm in a Dorsal Fin, was shortlisted for the 1996 New South Wales Premiers' Prize for Poetry, and he has since co-founded Cordite Poetry and Poetics Review and edited the Varuna New Poetry broadsheet series. His work has appeared in anthologies such as Landbridge: Contemporary Australian Poetry, (FACP 1999) and Catalyst, (Folio(Salt) 2000) and in numerous Australian and international paper and electronic journals, including The Atlanta Review, Boxkite, Heat, Jacket, Picador New Writing 4, PLASTIC, Poetry Review, The Prague Review, Salt, Slope, Southerly, Stand, Verse, & c. His second volume of poems, Empty Texas, was published by Paper Bark Press in 1999, and he is presently poetry editor for Meanjin, a contributing editor to Boxkite, and editor of the forthcoming Varuna Literary Review. His awards include the 2000 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship for Poetry, with which he will be travelling to Cambridge as an invited guest at the 2000 Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetics.    Photo of poet by photographer, year. Peter Minter's publications include: Poetry: Rhythm in a Dorsal Fin, (Five Islands Press, 1995), Empty Texas, a Selection, (Folio(Salt), 1998), Empty Texas, (Paper Bark Press, 1999), Morning, Hyphen, (chapbook), (Vagabond Press, 2000), Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets, (co-editor with Michael Brennan/poetry anthology), (Paper Bark Press, 2000).

Jenni Mitchell (1955 - ) Jenni Mitchell is best known as a painter of the Australian landscape and of Australian poets' portraits. She has traveled extensively throughout the inland regions of Australia, particularly the Flinders Ranges, Lake Eyre and Tibooburra. She is currently undertaking a Masters of Visual Art at Monash University in Victoria and is researching the visual similarities of the extreme desert landscapes of Lake Eyre and Antarctica. She has undertaken several field trips over a number of years to Lake Eyre and traveled to Antarctica during the Summer of 2002/03 as the Artist-In-Residence for the Australian Antarctic Division.    Photo of Jenni Mitchell by photographer unknown, 2002. Jenni's series of poets' portraits is another project involving historical documentation, commenced in 1981, on since 1981, over ninety paintings have been compled. Portraits include such notable poets as Prof. A. D. Hope, Judith Wright, Les Murray, Dorothy Porter, Emma Lew, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, John Kinsella, and Geoffrey Dutton. The portraits are to remain together as a permanent collection. They have been loaned for various exhibitions including a six-month touring exhibition of Tasmania, and will continue to be exhibited in part or in total. Publication of a book is planned, once the series is complete. Currently she is workining the landscape paintings and photography work with Antarctica and Lake Eyre. This will take her back into the field and another journey to Antarctica to experience an Antarctic 'twilight'. Preliminary exhibitions and a publication of the work has been shown in Melbourne and Tasmania. Jenni has had more than 40 solo exhibitions throughout Australia, and has been included in many group exhibitions. Her works are represented in public and private collections in Australia, and overseas, including USA, UK. and Japan. Jenni Mitchell's publications include: Art and Photography: TO THE ICE: Images from the Antarctic, (LINE Publications, 2003). Jenni Mitchell can be contacted at Email: jenni (át) jennimitchell (dót) com (dót) au   Go to Jenni Mitchell's website

Paul Mitchell (D.O.B. - )

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Ernest G. Moll (1900 - )

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Moodrooroo (1939 - ) Mudrooroo (Mudrooroo Narogin) is a Nyoongah from Cuballing, Western Australia. He started a prolific writing career in 1965 as Colin Johnson with Wildcat Falling, the first Aboriginal novel. Six novels, three poetry collections, two critical works and a non-fiction guide to Aboriginal mythology followed, along with extensive critical and creative contributions to international anthologies, journals and mass media. Mudrooroo is active in Aboriginal cultural affairs, having co-founded with Jack Davis the Aboriginal Writers, Oral Literature and Dramatists Association, and served on the Aboriginal Arts Unit committee of the Australia Council. He was also a founding judge of the UQP David Unaipon Award for new Aboriginal writers, and piloted Aboriginal literature courses at Murdoch University, The University of Queensland, The University of the Northern Territory and Bond University. He has travelled extensively throughout Australia and the world, and lived in India for seven years.    Photo of poet by photographer, year. Moodrooroo's publications include: Insert publications.

Meg Mooney (1953 - ) Meg Mooney has been living in central Australia for 15 years, four of them on remote Aboriginal communities, and her work generally focusses on places and communities there. Meg first got to love the Australian deserts working as a geologist. After a spell as a Literature Production Supervisor at Papunya School and having a son, she has edged her way back towards the natural sciences, always a great love. For a few years she has been working on landcare with remote Aboriginal communities. Currently, she helping to develop a two-way environmental education program for children in remote community schools. She have a day off a week, and spend the morning writing.    Photo of poet by photographer, year. Meg has been writing poetry for 20 years - ever since she enrolled in a poetry workshop at a tertiary institution and found out it meant writing her own poetry, not studying other peoples'. Her poetry has had a great boost in the last four years, from having a 'free period' every week for writing, and feedback and support from the Alice Springs Writers' Group. Meg Mooney's poems often have a strong narrative and attention to detail. Meg says 'In a way I am 'mapping' this desert country and its people.' Meg Mooney's publications include: Insert publications.

T. Inglis Moore (1901 -)

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Ashley Morgan-Shae (D.O.B. - )

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Kathleen Morgan (1969 - ) Born and raised in suburban Sydney, the writing of poetry began seriously at the age of eight years old, inspired by the desire to express emotion, following a traumatic event. Relocation to the lower mid-north coast of NSW for eleven years inspired the co-founding of the Great Lakes Fellowship of Australian Writers (NSW), the Great Lakes Young Writers Group, and membership with the Poets Union, Sydney (since 1996). Publication in various anthologies, newspapers, and newsletters (regional, national, and international) followed, with the first publication of poetry occurring in a local newspaper (1992), followed by the first publication within an anthology (1994), and first performed public reading of original works at the NSW Writers Centre, Sydney (1991). While employed as a Teachers Aide, the establishment of creative writing groups for gifted and talented students within a number of NSW public and independent schools was undertaken, while also utilising poetry to develop literacy skills in special needs' students. Other occupations which have interacted with the writing experience include working as a Library Assistant, Yoga Teacher, Cultural Heritage Consultant, Tour Guide, and Environmental Worker.    Photo of Kathleen Morgan by David Hammer, 2004. Issues and interests commonly explored include death/spirituality, environmental,/cultural heritage, self/identity and political/social themes. Presently developing works within the realm of cyberculture,while also exploring the relationships between the word and the symbol, and working on self publishing a first collection of poems. Currently based in Sydney and employed as a part time childcare worker, while also writing, researching, and living a creative life with her visual artist partner David Vincent Hammer, and their son Nathan. Kathleen Morgan's publications include: Insert publications. Kathleen Morgan can be contacted at Email: morganpoet (át) hotmail (dót) com   Go to Kathleen Morgan's website

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Sally Morgan - Writer (D.O.B. - )

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Romaine Moreton (D.O.B. - )

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Sara Moss (1967 - ) Sara Moss was born in Somerset England and migrated to the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia in 1979. On leaving school she moved to Sydney and studied history and politics at Macquarie University, fuelling an interest in public affairs, social justice and the environment which is still reflected in her writing. Sara returned to Queensland in the early 90's and has been writing, publishing and performing poetry for almost ten years. Her first individual collection, A Deep Fear of Trains, was released in 2000 by Interactive Publications and was the first title in the Interactive Press Emerging Authors Series'. Sara has also published in numerous journals in print and online including: imago, Linq, Coppertales, New England Review, Social Alternatives, Salt-Lick Quarterly, The Drunken Boat, Papertiger new world poetry and Stylus Poetry Journal. She has also appeared at successive Queensland Poetry Festivals and cafe and pub venues in Sydney and Brisbane. She's currently working with digital artist Scart (aka Shane Carter) in the Synaptic Graffiti Collective. They debuted a live multimedia performance of poetry, flash animation, artistic images and instrumentals in 2003 performing for the Arc Arts Cooperative on the Gold Coast and the Queensland Poetry Festival.    Photo of Sara Moss by Shane Carter, 2003. In 2004 they extended the collective and are currently seeking submissions for the first Synaptic Graffiti Multimedia CD, Synaptic Graffiti: Slam the Body Politik. In addition to her own creative efforts, Sara has worked for the Brisbane-based publisher, Interactive Publications since 1997. Sara Moss's publications include: Poetry: A Deep Fear of Trains, (Interactive Publications, 2000). Sara Moss can be contacted at Email: saramoss (át) iprimus (dót) com (dót) au  Go to Sara Moss's website

Sue Moss (1945 - ) Sue Moss was born in Melbourne and spent her childhood in the Latrobe Valley. She graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1966 and taught in Victorian secondary schools before working in Papua New Guinea. In 1974 she moved to Tasmania, taking up a lecturing position at the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. She completed an honours degree in dance and aesthetics in the United Kingdom in 1978. Her writing career began through song writing. She then moved to poetry, performance and theatre texts. Her poetry and performance pieces have been included in the following anthologies: The Exploding Frangipanni (New Women's Press, 1990), Neo: Picador New Writing ( Picador, 1993), Motherlode (Sybylla Feminist Press, 1996) and Moorilla Mosaic, (Bumblebee Books, 2001). Her literary musical May I Have This Dance Miss Stein? received an Arts Tasmania Adult Theatre Grant in 1997. Her work with visual artists include the exhibition Will the Real Australia Please Stand Up? (1996) curated by Christl Berg, and the Poets & Painters Exhibition (1996 & 2001) where she collaborated with Barbie Kjar and Patricia Brassington.    Photo of Sue Moss by Morven Andrews, 2001. She has worked with musicians including percussionist Patricia Borrell, (bard & band) and Andrea Breen, viola and voice. In 1999 they were Tasmanian semi-finalists in the ABC's National Improvisation Award. Since 1998 she has performed with guitarist / vocalist Wendy Hartshorn as the spoken work / music duo Basic Black & Ready To Go. Her most recent project is co-editor, with Karen Knight, of the anthology Interior Despots: Running the Border to be published by Pardalote Press in August 2001. Sue Moss's publications include: Poetry: The Upwardly Downward Mobility Blues, in Hot Collation,, (Penguin Books Australia, 1994).

Debbie Moutzios (D.O.B. - )

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Ian Mudie (1911 - )

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Lynne Muir (D.O.B. - )

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R. D. Murphy (1910 - )

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Liz Murphy (D.O.B. - ) Lizz Murphy was born in Belfast, Ireland, but now lives in Binalong, a small village in rural New South Wales. Lizz is widely published in literary journals, magazines and anthologies including Antithesis, Ars Poetica, Blast, The Canberra Times, Going Down Swinging, Hecate, Imago, LiNQ, Mainichi Daily News, Muse, Poetrix, Redoubt, Sydney Morning Herald, Ten Irish Poets - Potpourri, (USA), The White Page: Twentieth-Century Irish Women Poets (Salmon Publishing, Ireland),Billabong, (PIW, Poland). ABC Radio National's Poetica produced a program on her latest collection. Her fourth poetry collection, Stop Your Cryin, is waiting in the wings. She has worked on two major art in the workplace publications, Everyone Needs Cleaners, Eh!, highlighting injury and accident among migrant women cleaners and House at Work, an exposé on working life in Parliament House, Canberra. Lizz coordinated Poets in Court, a program of performance-workshops touring to 13 venues in SE NSW in 2001, also featuring Venie Holmgren and Jennifer Martiniello.    Photo of poet by photographer, year. Other literary programs include Shoalhaven Poetry Festival 2003, NT Writers Week 2001, Canberra Spring Poetry Festivals 1999 and 2002, Adelaide Fringe, Canberra Word Festival/Writers at Tilley's. Lizz has worked as a publicist, marketing manager and editor and is currently the Regional Arts Development Officer (RADO) for the Southern Tablelands and Highlands in SE NSW, promoting arts and community cultural development in communities across eleven local government areas. Lizz was the Southern Tablelands Regional Arts Development Officer, servicing arts practitioners and communities across eleven local government areas in SE New South Wales in 2002. Liz Murphy's publications include: Poetry: Two Lips Went Shopping, (Spinifex Press, 2000), Pearls and Bullets, (Island Press, 1997), Do Fish Get Seasick, (Polonius Press, 1994). Anthology (Ed): Wee Girls: Women Writing from an Irish Perspective, (reprint Spinifex Press, 2000).

Les Murray (1938 - ) Les Murray was born at Nabiac, New South Wales, and grew up on his grandfather's small dairy farm at Bunyah. His mother died when he was 12 years old. He attended Bulby Brush school and Taree High School before going to Sydney University in 1957. He married Valerie Morelli in 1962, and they have five children. The Murrays moved to Canberra in 1963, where the poet worked as a translator at the Australian National University until 1967. After travelling in Europe, he served as editor of Poetry Australia (1973-1979), and as poetry editor at Angus and Robertson (1976-1990). Murray has been literary editor of Quadrant since 1990, and his many reviews and columns for newspapers and journals have been gathered in several prose collections. The Murrays moved back to Bunyah from Sydney in 1986 and continue to live there on the 40-acre block which has featured strongly in much of the poet's work. Murray has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships over his career, and has been writer-in-residence at a number of universities. In addition to his many Australian prizes and awards, he has more recently won the Petrarch Prize (1995), the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry (1998), and the T.S. Eliot Prize (1997).    Photo of Les Murray by Valerie Murray, 1997. Peter Alexander's biography of the poet Les Murray: A Life in Progress, (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2000), illustrates how Murray's work absorbs or reworks a wide variety of literary forms from short lyric to verse novel, points up his diverse linguistic and thematic explorations, and how his writing is underpinned by the spirit of the Australian landscape, his republican sentiment and respect for the 'bush values' of traditional Australia (absorbing his own pioneering Gaelic ancestry, and Australian vernacular culture), and his Christian belief. A large number of Murray's manuscripts and papers, and a number of oral history interview recordings, are lodged with the National Library of Australia. Film: A video, The Daylight Moon: A Film about the Poet Les Murray was produced in 1991 by Don Featherstone, and shows the poet and family at the Bunyah property and environs, and reading some of his poems. Les Murray's publications include: Poetry: The llex Tree, (with Geoffrey Lehmann), (ANU Press, Canberra, 1965), The Weatherboard Cathedral, (Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1969), Poems Against Economics, (Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1972), Lunch & Counter Lunch, (Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1974), Ethnic Radio, (Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1977), The Boys Who Stole The Funeral, (Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1979), The People's Otherworld, (Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1983), The Daylight Moon, (Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1987), Dog Fox Field, (Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1990), Translations from the Natural World, (Isabella Press, Sydney, 1992), Subhuman Redneck Poems, (Duffy & Snellgrove, Sydney, 1996), Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse, (Duffy & Snellgrove, Sydney, 1998), Conscious & Verbal, (Duffy & Snellgrove, Sydney, 2000), Poems the Size of Photographs, (Duffy & Snellgrove, Sydney, 2002), Collected & Selected Poems: Selected Poems: The Vernacular Republic, (Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1976, 1979), The Vernacular Republic: Poems 1961-1981, (expanded and revised) (Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1982, 1988), Collected Poems, (Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1991), Collected Poems, (William Heinemann Australia, Port Melbourne, 1994), New Selected Poems, (Duffy & Snellgrove, Sydney, 1999), Collected Poems, (Duffy & Snellgrove, Sydney, 2002), (includes CD of the poet reading a number of poems); Prose: The Peasant Mandarin: Prose Pieces, (UQP, St. Lucia, 1978), Persistence in Folly: Selected Prose Writings, (Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1984), The Australian Year: The Chronicle of our Seasons and Celebrations, (photographs by Peter Solness & others), (Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1985), Blocks and Tackles: Articles and Essays 1982 to 1990, (Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1990), A Working Forest: Selected Prose, (Duffy & Snellgrove, Sydney, 1997), The Quality of Sprawl: Thoughts about Australia, (Duffy & Snellgrove, Sydney, 1999).

Neil Murray (1956 - ) Song writer/musician/poet/author. In 1983, when the Warumpi Band's "Jailanguru Pakarnu"(Out From Jail) was first heard on the airwaves, few listeners in Australia understood the lyrics, but there was no denying a quiet revolution had taken place. It was the first rock song in an Aboriginal Language (Luritja) to be released and was co-written by founding member Neil Murray. The Warumpi Band's formidable live performances and 3 albums over two decades blazed a trail that a host of indigenous bands are still following. The Warumpi Band's influence was confirmed by their inclusion in the "Long Way to the Top" ABC Documentary series on Australian popular music. Through the Warumpi Band and his own solo career Neil Murray has earned his reputation as one of our most respected singer/songwriters. He has been described as a passionate man with a message who writes from the true heart and soul of Australia. Those who have heard his albums, "Calm & Crystal Clear, These Hands, Dust and The Wondering Kind" or read his book "Sing for me Countryman" and "One Man Tribe" or seen his play "King For This Place" acknowledge his affinity for the land and insight into indigenous themes.    Photo of Neil Murray by Jessie Marlowe, 2002. In 1995, Neil Murray was awarded the APRA song of the year for "My Island Home" originally written for the Warumpi Band and re-recorded by Cristine Anu. It became a huge hit for Christine whose talent was first nurtured in Neil's backing band The Rainmakers. "My Island Home" has become something of an unofficial anthem and featured in the closing ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympics. "Blackfella Whitefella" co-written by Neil Murray and George Rrurrambu for the Warumpi Band also enjoys anthemic status for the reconciliation movement. It has been covered by Powderfinger and Jimmy Little. More recently songs such as "Late this Night" and "Good Light in Broome" have received widespread regional and national airplay. Neil Murray performs regularly at festivals and live music venues in Australia and overseas and divides his time between his native "Tjapwurrung Country" in western Victoria and the Northern Territory. He is currently recording his fifth solo album to be released in 2003. Neil Murray's publications include: CDs: Big Name No Blankets, Warrumpi Band (Festival, 1985), Go Bush, Warrumpi Band, (Festival, 1987), Calm and Crystal Clear, (Festival, 1989), These Hands, (Mushroom, 1993, re-released independantly in 1999), Dust, (ABC Music, 1996), Too Much Humbug, Warumpi Band, (Caama Music, 1996), The Wondering Kind, (ABC Music, 2000). Written Publications: Startling Procedure, (poetry), (Paunya Literature Production Centre, 1980), Sing For Me Countryman, (novel), (Hodder & Stoughton, 1993), One Man Tribe, (poetry and prose), (NTU Press, 1999). Stage Play: King For This Place, (Deckchair Theatre, 1999).

Peter Murphy (D.O.B. - )

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David Musgrave (1965 - ) David Musgrave was born in 1965 in Sydney. He studied at Sydney University where was awarded a PhD in literature in 1997. He has continued to write prose as well as poetry and has published articles on Australian and European literature. His list of awards and prizes includes the Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize, the Broadway Poetry Prize, the Sidney Nolan Gallery Poetry Prize and the Henry Lawson Poetry Prize. He was awarded an Australian Society of Authors Mentorship in 2001 and an Emerging Writer's grant from the Australia Council in 2002. David is currently working on a collection of poems, titled Bodies of Water, in collaboration with his wife, photographer Fiona Robards, as well as another book gathering his poems from the last four years. In 2005 he started the publishing house Puncher & Wattmann, which publishes contemporary Australian poetry and prose. His work has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies in Australia. He is currently the Treasurer for the Poets Union Inc and cites his influences as Paul Muldoon, Elizabeth Bishop, Joseph Brodsky, Francis Webb, Seamus Heaney, John Ashbery, Fernando Pessoa, Marina Tsvetaeva and Pablo Neruda.    Photo of David Musgrave by James Ostinga, year unknown. David Musgrave's publications include: Poetry: To Thalia, (Five Islands Press, 2004), On Reflection, (Interactive Press, 2005), Watermark, (Picaro Press, 2006). David Musgrave can be contacted at Email: davidbmusgrave (át) bigpond (dót) com   Go to David Musgrave's website   Go To Puncher & Wattmann

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