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Neil Paech (D.O.B. - )

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Geoff Page (1940 - ) Geoff Page is a Canberra poet who has published thirteen books of poetry, two novels, a biography, a book of short stories and poems and edited two anthologies. With time off for occasional short grants or residencies Geoff Page has worked full time running the English department at Narrabundah College in the ACT since 1974. He has also either read his poetry or talked on Australian poetry at Bern, Switzerland (1984), Beijing (1988), London, Lecce and Bologna (1992), Guangzhou (1994), Singapore (1995) and New Zealand (1996). He was also one of four Australian poets on a reading tour of North America in 1985, He has been Writer in Residence at Wollongong University, the Australian Defence Force Academy, Curtin University and Edith Cowan University.    Photo of Geoff Page by Jenni Mitchell, 1989. Geoff Page's publications include: Poetry: Gravel Corners, (Angus & Robertson 1992), Human Interest, (Reed Books, 1994), The Secret, (Reed Books, 1997), Collateral Damage, (Indigo, 1999), The Scarring, (Hale & Iremonger, 1999), The Great Forgetting, (a book of poems and drawings on Australian history composed in collaboration with Aboriginal artist, Bevan Hayward Pooaraar), (Aboriginal Studies Press, 1996), Collateral Damage, (Indigo, 1999), My Mother's God, (mini-selected poetry), (Picaro Press, 2002), Darker and Lighter, (Five Islands Press, 2001), My Mother’s God, (Picaro Press, 2002), Drumming on Water (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2003), Cartes Postales (Picaro Press, 2004), Freehold, (Brandl & Schlesinger, forthcoming, 2005), Agnostic Skies, (Five Islands Press, forthcoming, 2006); Non-Fiction: A Reader's Guide To Contemporary Australian Poetry, (University of Queensland Press, 1995), Bernie McGann: A life in Jazz, (Kardoorair Press, 1997), Day After Day: Selected Poems of Salvatore Quasimodo (tranlations with R.F. Brissenden and Loredana Nardi-Ford, (editor), (Indigo, 2002), The Indigo Book of Modern Australian Sonnets (editor) (Indigo 2003). Geoff Page can be contacted at Email: geoffdpage (át) ozemail (dót) com (dót) au   Go to Geoff Page's website

Tony Page (D.O.B. - )

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Anthony Pahl (1950 - ) Anthony “Bushranger” Pahl enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force in 1967 at the age of 17 and served for over 20 years. He was stationed at numerous Air Force bases throughout Australia and served as a helicopter gunner in Vietnam with 9 Squadron RAAF in 1969 – 1970. He was based in Malaysia for 3 years (1973 -1976). He and Maria, his wife of over 35 years, have two married daughters and two grandsons, all of whom live in America. Retired due to ill-health since 1992, Anthony has been writing poetry since 1988 and remains occupied by maintaining and developing several websites including that of the International War Veterans’ Poetry Archives (http://iwvpa.net) and his personal website. He writes on all manner of subjects but as a Vietnam Veteran, he has an affinity for war/veteran related poetry, always striving to convey his Australian heritage with the unique and rich Australian version of English. An untrained and self-taught wordsmith, Anthony rarely writes to conform to “accepted” styles or formats, preferring instead to express as the mood and subject takes him, and to sculpt his works to reflect his motivations and perspectives as closely as possible.    Photo of Anthony Pahl by Anthony Pahl, 2003. Anthony was recently honoured by the International Community for the Relief of Starvation and Suffering – Canada with the ICROSS CANADA Humanitarian of the Year Award for 2004 for his artistic ability in the design and maintenance of the ICROSS CANADA Webpage (http://icross.iwvpa.net) and for spreading the word to the world about ICROSS CANADA’s efforts to help the HIV/AIDS Orphans and suffering poor in the 3rd World. Anthony Pahl's publications include: Webmaster: International War Veterans' Poetry Archives, ICROSS Canada (International Community for the Relief of Starvation and Suffering - Canadian Branch), Bushranger's Revetment, Army Mom's Safe Haven, Red Cowboy's Poetry, Small Eagles Eyrie, RAAF Vietnam Veterans' Association. Go to Anthony Pahl's website Anthony Pahl's creative work can now be used free of charge in the public domain under the Creative Commons License. Anthony Pahl supports the concept of free culture in Australia and on the world wide web.

Nettie Palmer (1885 - 1964)

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Vance Palmer (1885 - 1959)

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Louis de Paor (D.O.B. - )

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Joyce Parkes (1930 - ) Joyce Parkes has published poetry in order of 1st publication: Canberra Times, ACT; Lip-Service, WA; Breakaway, WA; Artlook, WA; POETRY Australia, NSW; Fling!, Vic.; The Weekend Australian, NSW; Overland, Vic; Sepia, England; Walker on the Top Rail, WA; Westerly, WA; Prints, VIC; Patterns, WA; Fremantle Arts Review, WA; Wordhord, WA; Celebrations, WA; The Road of Poems and Borders, Finland; (M)other Tongues, Canada; The Sydney Morning Herald, NSW; The Phoenix Review, ACT; The Midland Reporter, WA; Social Images, ACT; Stet, SA; Pen International, England; Kalla Yeedip Arts, WA; The Western Review, WA; The Western Word, WA; The New England Review, NSW; PEN-Perth, WA; It's a Woman's World, PEN Germany; Thylazine's Poets for Peace Project, N.T.; Alison Croggon's Poets Against War; Marginata, WA; ... continued.    Photo of Joyce Parkes by Jody Driscoll, 2002. Katherine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre, WA; m-a-g/ USA; The Journal, of the Australian Irish Heritage Association, WA; Word-Thirst; The Pixel Papers; The Best Australian Poetry 2005 2005; UQP QLD and Linq QLD. Subsequently she felt impelled to publish three books of poetry written by other writers. Though only two reached publication, one book was received with critical acclaim in The Bulletin and in the Sydney Morning Herald. She is a Member of the Fellowship of Australian Writers Writers' Centre, WA; a Member of the W.B. Yeats Society, WA; a Member of the Australian-Irish Heritage Association. Somewhere along the line Joyce also committed herself to being a Member of the Discrimination Committee of Western Australia, her brief: Employment; Editor of the Fellowship of Australian Writers, WA (Inc.); Archivist and President of International PEN-Perth Centre, WA. Joyce Parkes has a mention in the Who's Who of Australian Writers, first edition, D.W.Thorpe 1991, ISBN 0909532 81 8; in the Who's Who of Australian Writers, second edition, D.W. Thorpe, 1995, ISBN1 875589 20 1; and in the 14th International Authors and Writers Who's Who, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, ISBN 0948875 81 X. Joyce is an Australian writer with a Jewish-Dutch-Javanese accent. She began to write poetry on the 13th June, 1975, W.B. Yeats's 110th birthday, experiencing a natural high, after a 45-year long depression. Among earlier influences on her writing, apart from friends, foes, and family, were the works of Anton Chekhov; Herman Hesse; Victor Hugo; Bertrand Russell; Oscar Wilde; Charles A. Reich; W.B. Yeats; Edna O'Brien; Virginia Woolf; Emily Dickinson; Marianne Moore; Saul Bellow; Simone de Beauvoir; Santayana, Guillevic; Germaine Greer, Patrick White, before beginning to read other, truly excellent, Australian writers. In December '03 and January '04 Joyce will read, it's almost certain, Overland 4/2003; Meanjin 4/2003; The New England Review 2/2003; The Point, by Marion Halligan; What Darkness Covers, poems, by the Irish poet Tony Curtis. In 2004 J.P. published a Review of the book What Darkness Covers, by Tony Curtis, in The Journal of the Australian-Irish Heritage Association. She has also completed a term as a Member of the Cultural and Arts Policy Committee (the CAP-Committee) of Western Australia. Joyce Parkes's publications include: Poetry: (as J.E. Dubois, a family name) The Land of Sand and Stone, (self published, 1977), Silver and Gold, (self published, 1977) and Changes, (self published, 1977).

Helen Parlin (D.O.B. - )

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Catherine Paton (D.O.B. - )

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Andrew Peek (D.O.B. - )

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Gwyn Perkins (D.O.B. - )

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Fiona Perry (1958 - )

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Ioana Petrescu (D.O.B. - )

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Louise Pfanner (D.O.B. - )

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Denise Piccore (D.O.B. - )

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Pio (IIO) (1951 - ) Born: Katerini/Greece. Raised: Fitzroy. Reason for living: Stupidity. Occupation: draughtsman. Has edited "925" magazine (magazine of workers poetry 1978-1983), Fitzrot magazine. A founding member of the POETS UNION. A founding member of COLLECTIVE EFFORT PRESS. Has performed at most venues in and around the south eastern portion of Australia. Represented Australia at the International Poetry Festival in Colombia in 1997 and toured the USA (16 cities) in 1985. By disposition and history he is an Anarchist and has been involved in the Anarchist movement in Australia since 1970. He is a MINOR poet from Fitzroy who will be winning the Nobel Prize for literature.    Photo of Pio by photographer unknown, 1989. Pio's publications include: Poetry: Fitzroy Brothel, (Collective Effort Press, year unknown), Panash (Collective Effort Press, year unknown), The Fucik Poems (Collective Effort Press, year unknown), The Fitzroy Poems (Collective Effort Press, year unknown), Street Singe (Collective Effort Press, year unknown), 24 Hours (Collective Effort Press, year unknown), The Number Poems (Collective Effort Press, year unknown), Off The Record (anthology/performance poetry), (Penguin Books, 1985), Missing Forms (anthology/Visual poetry with P.Murphy and A.Selenitsch), (Collective Effort Press, 1980).

James Picot (1906 - 1944)

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E. J. Pitt (1869 - 1948)

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Andrew Plant (D.O.B. - )

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Sonya Pletes (D.O.B. - )

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Rosemary Plummer (D.O.B. - )

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Marcella Polain (D.O.B. - )

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Dorothy Porter (1954 - ) Dorothy Porter was born in Sydney. She has published five books of poetry, three verse novels and two novels for young adults. Dorothy has traveled extensively and has a strong interest in wildlife and the environment (she is a keen birdwatcher). The Monkey's Mask, a crime thriller in verse, was winner of the Age Poetry Book of the Year award and the National Book Council 'Banjo' for Poetry, The Monkey’s Mask was also shortlisted for the NSW State Literary Awards, the Booksellers' Book of the Year and the Australian Literature Society's Gold Medal. In October 1995, it was published in the USA and Canada to great acclaim. In 1997, a UK edition of The Monkey's Mask was published by Serpent's Tail, London and nominated as one of the Best Books of the Year in The Times. It has also been published in Germany and Italy. The Monkey's Mask is now one of the fastest-selling works of poetry ever published in Australia. It has recently been performed as a stage adaptation, radio play and will be released as a feature film in 2000.    Dorothy Porter and Emma by Andrea Goldsmith, 1996. Crete, her first collection of poetry since 1989, has been breaking sales records for poetry and even running into the Australian newspaper's bestseller list. Crete was also shortlisted for the 1996 National Book Council Banjo awards and the Colin Roderick award 1997. In 1999 she published a new verse novel, What a Piece of Work (Picador 1999) set in Sydney’s Callan Park Psychiatric Hospital during the 1960’s. A play based on this book has been chosen for the Griffin Theatre’s 2000 season. Dorothy Porter has published six collections of poetry, four verse novels. Her verse novel, What a Piece of Work, was the first book of poetry fiction to be short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award in 2000. Dorothy Porter's publications include: Poetry: Little Hoodlum, (Prism, 1975), Bison, (Prism, 1979), The Night Parrot, (Black Lighting Press, 1984), Driving Too Fast, (UQP, 1989), Akhenaten, (UQP, 1992), Crete, (Hyland House, 1996), Other Worlds, (Picador, 2001). Verse Novel: The Monkey's Mask, (Hyland House, 1994, 2nd Edition, Picador, 2000), What a Piece of Work, (Picador, 1999),Wild Surmise, (Picador, 2002).

Hal Porter (1917 - )

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Peter Porter (1929 - ) Born in Brisbane, Queensland. Peter worked at Brisbane Courier-Mail as a reporter in 1957. Since 1968 he has made his living as a freelance reviewer and journalist in Britain, chiefly for magazines and the BBC. Whilst living in Central London Peter Porter has returned to Australian often, sometimes more than once a year since 1974. Porter has published some fifteen original books of poetry as well as four especially written to be accompanied by the artworks of the late Arthur Boyd. In 1983, his Collected Poems first appeared; and in 1999 a revised version in two volumes, totalling more than 800 pages was published, in time for his 70th birthday.    Photo of Peter Porter and grandaughters by photographer unknown, 1996. Peter Porter's publications include: Poetry: Jonah, (in collaboration with the artwork of Arthur Boyd), (publisher unknown, year unknown), The Lady and the Unicorn, (in collaboration with the artwork of Arthur Boyd), (publisher unknown, year unknown), Narcissus, (in collaboration with the artwork of Arthur Boyd), (publisher unknown, year unknown), Mars, (in collaboration with the artwork of Arthur Boyd), (publisher unknown, year unknown), Once Bitten, Twice Bitten, (Oxford University Press, 1961), Poems Ancient & Modern,, (OUP, 1964), A Porter Folio, (OUP, 1969), The Last of England, (OUP, 1970), Preaching to the Converted, (OUP, 1972), Living in a Calm Country, (OUP, 1975), The Cost of Seriousness, (OUP, 1978), English Subtitles, (OUP, 1981), Collected Poems, (OUP, 1983, reissued 1988), Fast Forward, (OUP, 1984), The Automatic Oracle, (OUP, 1987), Possible Worlds, (OUP, 1989), A Porter Selected, (OUP, 1989), After Marital, (OUP, 1972), The Chair of Babel, (OUP, 1992), Millennial Fables, (OUP, 1994), Dragons In Their Pleasant Places, (OUP, 1997).

Andrea Potter (D.O.B. - )

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Craig Powell (1940 - ) Craig Powell was born in Wollongong NSW and grew up in Sydney. He graduated in medicine from Sydney University and later specialised in Psychiatry. 1972-82 he lived in Canada where he trained with the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis. He now lives in Sydney where he is a psychoanalyst in private practice and a Visiting Medical Officer, Mental Health, at the Prince of Wales Hospital. He won the 1983 Mattara (Newcastle) Poetry Prize and was a co-winner of the 45th International Poetry Competition (1989), Quarterly Review of Literature, Princeton New Jersey. He has published eight books of poetry, the most recent being Music and Women's Bodies, (Five Islands Press, 2002). He is married, with two children.    Photo of Craig Powell by Matthew JC. Powell, 2002. Craig Powell's publications include: Music and Women's Bodies, (Five Islands Press, 2002).

Margaret Power (D.O.B. - )

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Ron Pretty (D.O.B. - ) Ron Pretty has been publishing his poetry for more than 30 years. He has published four books of poetry, the most recent being Of the Stone: New and Selected Poems which was published in 2000. His book of the writing of poetry, Creating Poetry, was first published by Edward Arnold and was reissued this year in a revised edition. He was editor of the literary/arts magazine scarp from 1984 until its demise in 1999. He has taught writing in schools, universities and community groups throughout Australia and in US, England and Austria. From 1983 until he took early retirement in 1998 he was head of writing in the Faculty of Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong. He is the director of Five Islands Press, the leading publisher of contemporary Australian poetry, which, since its inception in 1987, has published over 130 books of contemporary Australian poetry. With John Millett, he has set up the Poetry Australia Foundation, a community based, non-profit-making organisation which has been established to promote the writing, reading, reviewing and teaching of poetry in this country. The first issue of Blue Dog: Australian Poetry, sponsored by the Poetry Australia Foundation, will be launched in May this year. He was awarded the 2001 NSW Premier's Special Award for Services to Australian Literature.    Photo of Ron Pretty by Chris Verheyden, 1998. Ron Pretty's publications include: Poetry: Richard II, (Tutortapes, 1976), Creating Poetry (academic), (Edward Arnold, Sydney 1987. Revised edition, Five Islands Press, 2002), The Habit of Balance, (Five Islands Press, 1988), Writing Essays, (a casebook for students), (Longman Cheshire, 1990), Bald Hill with Gliders (Five Islands Press, 1992), Outlook: An Anthology of Australian Poetry for Senior Students (Longman Cheshire, 1992), Fiction: Nicole: Another Chance at Life (novel with Kaye Bowden), (Five Islands Press, 1993), Halfway to Eden (Hale & Iremonger, 1996), Cry Out (Editor/Anthology of street poetry with Ann Davis), (Five Islands Press, 1996), The Argument from Desire: The Newcastle Prize Anthology (Editor), (Five Islands Press, 1999), Of the Stone: New and Selected Poems (Five Islands Press, 2000).

Ron Price (1944 - ) Ron Price sees himself more as a 'world citizen' than a regional poet. Although he identifies with Tasmania where he currently lives, with other states in Australia where he has lived and in Canada, too, where he has spent half his life and hence feels he could legitimately call himself an Australian, a Canadian, a Tasmanian, an Ontario, poet--he feels these terms are too restrictive. These identities are too partial. His world is the planet and, indeed, due to his interest in astronomy and the future, in history, anthropology and other disciplines in the social sciences, humanites and the physical and biological sciences, indeed all of phenomenal reality, his world could more appropriately be called phenomenological or hermeneutical. So much for content and perspectives. Price has just retired from thirty years as a primary, secondary and post-secondary teacher. He has worked with Eskimos and Aboriginals in Canada and Australia, respectively; he has taught in three universities, two Colleges of Advanced Education, two high schools and three primary schools.    Photo of Ron Price by photographer unknown, year unknown. He has worked as an editor, with unemployed youth, as an adult educator, in public relations, in a tin mine, as a taxi driver, indeed, too many jobs to include in this short space. His poetry has appeared in a dozen journals, magazines and newspapers. He has published more than 150 essays, of more than 800 words each, in newspapers, magazines and journals. His poetry, some 6000 poems and more than two million words, is also kept in a dozen libraries in Canada, Australia, Israel and the U.K. Ron has just finished writing an 80,000 word book on the poetry of a Canadian poet Roger White (1929-1993) and two publishers are currently considering it for publication. His website features 250,000 words, of poems, essays and interviews, mostly about poetry. Ron Price has collections of poetry in international Ba'hai libraries. Ron Price's publications include: Prose: A History of the Baha'i Faith in the Northern Territory: 1947-1997, (publisher unknown, year unknown), The Emergence of a Baha'i Consciousness in World Literature: The Poetry of Roger White, (publisher unknown, year unknown).

Selwyn Pritchard (1933 - 2005) Selwyn Pritchard was born in 1933, the third son of a Welsh carpenter. He left school at 16, was conscripted and served five years as a subaltern in The Royal Welch Fusiliers in Jamaica, Guyana, Dortmund and Berlin. He subsequently became a teacher before getting into Oxford to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics and graduating at the age of 35. He then taught philosophy for some years before moving to the Orkney Islands with his wife and three children. In 1980 they emigrated to New Zealand, then Australia. His last post was as professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Jinan University in Guanghou, People's Republic of China. He has four grandchildren and with his wife lives on the Mornington Peninsula south of Melbourne. He began to write poetry on leaving the United Kingdom. Homage to Colonel Rainborough was published by the Omanawa Press in 1984; Being Determined by The Cornford Press, Launceston, Tasmania, 1990; Stirring Stuff, 99 poems, Sinclair-Stevenson, London, was launched at the Poetry Society rooms in Covent Garden in 1993; Lunar Frost, translations from the Tang and Song dynasties, Brandl & Schlesinger, Sydney, 2000; Letters & Characters, 2001, The Cornford Press. Selwyn Pritchard was awarded the Rome residency by the Literature Board of the Australia Council in 1999.    Photo of Selwyn Pritchard by photographer unknown, year unknown. For further information: Go to Selwyn Pritchard's website

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