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Samuel Wagan Watson (1972 - ) Winner of the 1999 David Unaipon Award for his volume of poetry Of Muse, meandering and midnight, published as part of the UQP Black Australian Writers Series, Samuel Wagan Watson was born in Brisbane in 1972. His ancestry is Irish, German, Bundjalung and Birri Gubba. A former prefect of the Morayfield State High School, he has been a salesman, public relations officer, fraud investigator, graphic artist, laborer, law clerk, film industry technician, and an actor. In recent years he has been in much demand as a poet and has performed his work at pub gigs and literary festivals including the annual DAR Festival, Queensland Poetry Festival, the Sydney Australia Poetry Festival, and Byron Bay Writers' Festival where he appeared with major writers and poets. Samuel has published widely in literary journals and international poetry publications. His poetry is on the permanent website The Blackfellas, Whitefellas, Wetlands, commissioned by the Brisbane City Council.    Photo of Samuel Wagan Watson by photographer unknown, year unknown. Samuel describes his influences in writing as Nick Cave, Tom Waites, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski and Robert Adamson. His other influences are his father, the novelist, Sam Watson and his mother, who is a specialist teacher. Samuel is currently working on two poetry collections: one about his touring experiences and the other about his grandfathers. Samuel lives in Brisbane and studies Indigenous visual arts at Southbank TAFE. Samuel Wagan Watson's publications include: Insert publications. Samuel Wagan Watson can be contacted at Email: sam (dót) watson (át) arts (dót) qld (dót) gov (dót) au   Click here for information about Samuel and his work

Amelia Walker (D.O.B. - ) Amelia Walker's first poem was published when she was sixteen, in Sidewalk. When she was seventeen she received her first (albeit small) grant from SAYAB to produce a video of spoken word 'film clips'. The next year she received another (somewhat larger) grant from SAYAB, which allowed her to work with editor Graham Rowlands to produce her first collection of poetry, Fat Streets and Lots of Squares. She also runs a montly spoken word night at the Crown and Sceptre hotel in Adelaide and was a member of the organizing committee for this year's Newcastle Young Writers' Festival. She is a member of the 'dB' Young Writers' Page editing committee, and has recently been chosen to co-edit the 2004 Friendly Street Reader with editing partner Shen.    Photo of Amelia Walker by Amelia Walker, year unknown. Amelia Walker's publications include: Insert publications.

Denise Walker (D.O.B. - ) Insert biographical details.    Photo of poet by photographer, year. The poets publications include: Insert publications. Denise Walker can be contacted at Postal Address: PO Box 1204 Broome WA 6725 Email: dwartworks (át) aapt (dót) net (dót) au   Go to Denise Walker's website

Lyndon Walker (D.O.B. - ) Insert biographical details.    Photo of Lyndon Walker by Pamela Sidney, 1989. The poets publications include: Insert publications.

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Chris Wallace-Crabbe (1934 - ) Christopher Keith Wallace-Crabbe, poet and essayist, is now an Emeritus Professor in The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne. Born to a journalist and a pianist, he grew up with a family tradition of military-bohemian Scots. On leaving school he worked at such jobs as cadet metallurgist and electrical trade journalist before finding his metier as poet and as a university teacher. He has lived in Britain, the United States and Italy, as well as in his natal Melbourne, has taught at Harvard and read his poems all round the world. Wallace-Crabbe has published a dozen books of poetry, plus prose works, art criticism and varied anthologies. For diversion he walks, draws and plays tennis.    Photo of Chris Wallace-Crabbe by photographer unknown, year unknown. Chris Wallace-Crabbe's publications include: Poetry: The Music of Division, (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1959), Eight Metropolitan Poems, (Adelaide: Australian Letters, 1962), In Light and Darkness, (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1963), The Rebel General, (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1967), Where the Wind Came, (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1971), Selected Poems, (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1973), The Foundations of Joy, (Poets of the Month Series), (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1976), The Emotions Are Not Skilled Workers, (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1979) The Amorous Cannibal, (Oxford: O.U.P., 1985), I'm Deadly Serious, (Oxford: O.U.P., 1988), Sangue e l'acqua, (trans. and ed. Giovann Distefano), (Abano Terme: Piovan Editore, 1989), For Crying Out Loud, (Oxford: O.U.P., 1990), Rungs of Time, (Oxford: O.U.P., 1993), Selected Poems 1956-1994, (Oxford: O.U.P., 1995), Whirling, (Oxford: O.U.P., 1998), Fiction: Splinters, (Adelaide, Rigby, 1981), Audio Vinyl Record: Chris Wallace-Crabbe Reads From His Own Verse, (UQP, St.Lucia, 1973), Literary Criticism: Melbourne or the Bush: Essays on Australian Literature and Society, (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1974), Toil and Spin: Two Directions in Modern Poetry, (Melbourne: Hutchinson, 1979), Three Absences in Australian Writing, (Townsville: Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, 1983), Poetry and Belief, (Hobart: University of Tasmania, 1990), Falling into Language, (Melbourne: O.U.P., 1990), Edited: Six Voices: Contemporary Australian Poets, (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1963; American Edition, Westport, 1979), Australian Poetry 1971, (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1971), The Golden Apples of the Sun: Twentieth Century Australian Poetry, (Melbourne: M.U.P., 1980), The Australian Nationalists: Modern Critical Essays, (with Peter Pierce), (Melbourne: O.U.P., 1981), Clubbing of the Gunfire: 101 Australian War Poems, (with D. Goodman and D.J. Hearn), (Melbourne: M.U.P.,1984), Multicultural Australia: the Challenges of Change, (with Kerry Flattley), (Newham, 1991), From the Republic of Conscience, (with Kerry Flattley and Sigurdur A. Magnusson), (Melbourne: Aird Books; and New York: White Pine Press, 1992), Ur Riki Samviskunnar, (Rejkavik: Amnesty International, 1994), Author, Author! Tales of Australian Literary Life, (with Harold Bolitho), (Melbourne: O.U.P., 1998), Approaching Australia: Papers from the Harvard Australian Studies Symposium, (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Universtiy Committee on Australian Studies, 1998), Associate Editor: The Oxford Literary History of Australia, (with Bruce Bennett and Jennifer Strauss), (Melbourne: O.U.P., 1998), Artist's Books: A series of Artist's Books with the painter, Bruno Leti, as follows: Drawing, (Melbourne: Australian Print Workshop, 1994), Apprehensions, (Melbourne: the artist, 1995), New Year, (Melbourne and Canberra, the artist and Raphael Fodde, 1996), The Iron Age, (Melbourne: the artist, 1996), Timber, (with Inge and Grahame King), (New York: the artist and Raphael Fodde, 1999).

Lesley Walker (D.O.B. - )

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Ania Walwicz (1951 - )

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Meredith Wattison (1963 - ) The title poem of Meredith Wattison's first book of poetry, Psyche's Circus, shared the 1989 Rothman's Poetry Prize. She recorded some poems from her second book Judith's Do for ABC Radio National's The Science Show with Robyn Williams. Meredith Wattison lives on the pastoral outskirts of Sydney, not too far from the sea. Her 4th book, The Nihilist Line (The Fishwife's Other Tail) was published by Five Islands Press, August, 2003.    Photo of Meredith Wattison by Kylie Lyons, 2001. Meredith Wattison's publications include: Poetry: Psyche's Circus, (Poetry Australia, 1989), Judith's Do in Conversations of Love, (Penguin Books Australia, 1996), Fishwife, (Five Islands Press, 2001), The Nihilist Line, (The Fishwife's Other Tail), (Five Islands Press, 2003).

Sarah Watt (D.O.B. - )

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Michael Watts (D.O.B. - )

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Noel Wauchope (1937 - ) I have lived most of my life in country Victoria - mainly in towns along the Murray River. After studying Fine Arts at Melbourne University, I eventually qualified as a secondary teacher, and then as a registered nurse. I have been busy, with four children, and also working, usually part-time, in two different areas, nursing and secondary teaching. Still I always managed to find some time for painting. Those of us who lived along the Murray River have realised for many years that the river was suffering - from wrongly organised weirs, from salinity, from over-use of water - and now, from global warming on top of Australia's natural cycles of drought. The plight of the Murray River was my inspiration for several years. I chose to depict the strangely beautiful landscapes of the suffering river. My first two exhibitions (Yarrawonga and Melbourne) were devoted to the Murray River. By making some long treks in Central Australia, and walking treks in the "top end" I was able to spend time painting the outback landscape - also very beautiful, but also suffering - from the inroads of European settlement. As I have family connections on the New South Wales coast, I've had the opportunity to stay there, and to paint ocean and coastal scenes. In coming to live in Melbourne, I really appreciated the "garden city"- with so many parks, and with heritage buildings placed within, or near, superb gardens. So, "Marvellous Melbourne" became a great subject for painting.    Photo of Noel Wauchope by Shem Macdonald, 2007. Along the way, I've come across some great people to paint, too - and I always like to depict people involved in doing the things that they love, whether it's singing in a band, or just running on the beach. Four exhibitions in Melbourne covered all of my favourite themes - but the paintings of Melbourne and its gardens were the most successful. While still working part-time, in nursing, I'm continuing to paint, but also spend time supporting the environmental movement. I see this as a critical issue in 2007, particularly with the dangerous directions in which Australia is now being led, in regard to global warming, aboriginal land rights, the uranium industry and nuclear power. Noel Wauchope can be contacted at Email: greenimages (át) alphalink (dót) com (dót) au

Wendy Wauchope (1976 - ) Wendy Wauchope was born in Perth to American parents who migrated to Australia in 1973. She won a pot plant in a primary school poetry competition at age seven, and has been writing ever since. In 1999 Wendy graduated from Murdoch University with an Honours degree in English (Creative Writing). She has had several pieces published in Murdoch anthologies, poetry published in 'Westerly', and the poem "Travel Sickness" published in New Music: Contemporary Australian Poetry (Five Islands Press). She is currently back at Murdoch to do a creative writing PhD and is compiling a book of short fiction. In her spare time, Wendy enjoys yoga, photography and swimming in the Indian ocean. She has travelled widely in Europe and North America, but now lives in Fremantle by the beach.    Photo of Wendy Wauchope by Ivar Vasara, 1999. Wendy Wauchope's publications include: Insert publications.

Alan Wearne (D.O.B. - )

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Francis Webb (1925 - 1973) Francis Webb was born in Adelaide, 1925, but lived in Sydney for most of his childhood. His first publication, 'Palace of Dreams', appeared with the Bulletin in 1942. He joined the RAAF in 1943 and trained as a radio operator in Australia and Canada. In 1946 he returned to Canada to be with his girlfriend (Ethel) during a period of employment with Macmillan (as a proofreader and editor). His first collection, A Drum for Ben Boyd, appeared in 1948, and received major acclaim in both Australia and England. In 1949, Webb broke off his engagement with Ethel and traveled to England. Suffering a severe depression he attempted suicide. With the assistance of his youngest sister (Leonie), he returned to Australia in 1950. When Leichhardt in Theatre (his second major collection) was published in 1952, he was doing itinerant work in South Australia. His poetry refused the decadence of Norman Lindsay and the Romantics. In late 1953, following the self-publication of Birthday, after being censored by the ABC and MUP, he returned to England where the same-titled verse play was produced by the BBC. Webb's poetry was held in high regard by critics in England though he continued to receive care for mental health reasons, staying at several psychiatric facilities until his return to Australia in 1960. In 1961, Socrates and other poems appeared, followed afterwards by The Ghost of the Cock in 1964.    Photo of Frances Webb by photographer unknown, year unknown. In 1969 Angus & Robertson published his Collected Poems. Francis Webb died at Rydalmere Hospital, 1973. Critics in Europe, USA, and Australia have located Francis Webb's poetry on the map of the world's greatest poets, viewing his work better than or at least, on equal par with that of Pasternak, Rilke, Eliot, Lowell and others. Uncollected poetry appears in Francis Webb 1925-1973 Commemorative Issue Poetry Australia Vol. 53, No. 1, 1975, and in Peter Meere and Leonie Meere's Francis Webb: Poet & Brother (Sage Old Books, 2001). This book contains an extensive index that chronologically lists all of Francis Webb's individual prose and poetry publications, and lists most literary works written about Francis Webb's poetry between 1948 and 2000. Francis Webb's family are keen to get a complete and definitive edition of all Webb's poetry and verse plays into continuous print. Francis Webb's publications include: Poetry: A Drum for Ben Boyd, (Angus & Robertson, 1948), Leichhardt in Theatre, (Angus & Robertson, 1952), Birthday, (self-published, 1953),Socrates and other poems, (Angus & Robertson, 1961), Ghost of the Cock, (Angus & Robertson, 1964), Collected Poems, (Angus & Robertson, 1969), Collected Poems, (Angus & Robertson, 1977), Francis Webb reads from his own work: Poets on Record, No. 13 (University of Queensland Press, 1975), Cap & Bells: The Poetry of Francis Webb, (Angus & Robertson, 1991). Peter Meere can be contacted at Email: petermeere (át) bigpond (dót) com

Winifred Weir (D.O.B. - )

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Sarah St Vincent Welch (1961 - ) Sarah St Vincent Welch was born in Sydney, and moved to Canberra in 1987 with her partner, Robert. Her stories have been published in; Telling Ways: Australian Women's Experimental Writing (Australian Feminist Studies), Body Lines (Women's Redress Press), and She's a Train and She's Dangerous (Literary Mouse Press). Her as yet unpublished novel, Islands in Lakes, Lakes in Islands, won the Jessie Litchfield Award for Literature 1995. It is set around the mysterious disappearing Lake George in the Southern Tablelands of NSW, and deals with the relationship of non-indigenous Australians to the landscape. Excerpts from this novel appear in Eat the Ocean (Literary Mouse Press) and There is No Mystery! - An Artistic Response to Lake George/Werriwa (Ginninderra Press). She is working on a new novel, The City Beautiful. She also teaches writing in the community.    Photo of Sarah St Vincent Welch by Neville Minch, 1991. Over the last ten years she has earned a living at ScreenSound Australia, preserving films. A story inspired by working with nitrate film appears in Pressing the Flesh (Top Drawer Press). She also has a young son, Lawrence, and an inner monologue inspired by the dark side of mothering, 'The Cry', appeared in the National Library's Canberra Arts Anthology, 1999. Sarah St Vincent Welch's publications include: Fiction: Time Pieces, (short stories/co-editor/with Craig Cormick), Ginninderra Press, year unknown).

William Charles Wentworth (1790 - 1872)

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Deborah Westbury (D.O.B. - ) Deb Westbury has been a familiar voice in Australian poetry since her work began appearing in Australian literary magazines and in various anthologies throughout the 1970's and 80's. Mouth to Mouth, her first collection, was published in 1990 by Five Island's Press. Since it was added to the HSC syllabus in 1998, Mouth to Mouth has been republished by Hodder Education and Cambridge University Press. Though Mouth to Mouth is out of print, it remains listed for study, and those poems selected for 'close study of text' are included in The View from Here. The writing of Our Houses Are Full of Smoke was supported by a grant from the Literature Board and was published by Angus and Robertson in 1994. Five Island's Press published Deb Westbury's third poetry collection, Surface Tension, in 1998. Flying Blind (poetry) was supported by a New Work Grant by the Literature Board and was published in 2002 by Brandl and Schlesinger. Westbury has developed a dual career as a distinguished writer and teacher of writing. She gained a Master of Creative Arts degree (Writing) at Wollongong University under the supervision of Dr Elizabeth Webby and John A Scott. Throughout the 1990's until the present she has taught courses in Creative Writing at U.O.W., James Cook University, at the University of Western Sydney, and The College of Fine Arts - University of N.S.W. She continues to be much in demand as a reader and teacher of poetry throughout Australia.    Photo of Deborah Westbury courtesy of Brandl & Schlesinger, year unknown. Deb Westbury was a guest lecturer at the prestigious 'Catskill Poetry Workshop' in upstate New York, U.S.A., alongside Michael Waters, Donald Justice, Carol Frost, Carl Phillips and David St John, during 1999. Throughout this time Westbury served as Writer-in-Residence for Macquarie Fields / Campbelltown in 1990, for the Hawksbury / Nepean Region 1991, and for The Blue Mountains region in 1992. She edited and published anthologies of prose and poetry by local writers at the culmination of each residency. She has enjoyed a long and productive association with 'Varuna - the Writer's House' since its inception in 1991 - as a facilitator of its community workshops, as a writing consultant, mentor and co-ordinator of various masterclasses. Many of her finest and most memorable poems have been composed during her time at Varuna as teacher and visitor. Poems in all four collections represented in this manuscript, as well as the new work, reflect her experiences as observer, participant and traveller through the lives of the people, cultures, times and places through which she has moved in these years - hence the title of this new and selected - The View from Here. from working class origins in Wollongong amongst the migrants smokestacks of Port Kembla - through intimate involvement in the many lives from inner Western Sydney, to America, and back again to the Blue Mountains - Westbury's voice has retained its poise, its quiet understated mastery of language and emotion, while retaining a true gift for arresting imagery. Deborah Westbury's publications include: Poetry: Mouth to Mouth, (Five Island's Press, 1990), Our Houses Are Full of Smoke, (Angus and Robertson, 1994), Surface Tension, (Five Islands Press, 1998), Flying Blind, (Brandl and Schlesinger, 2002).

Terry Whitebeach (1948 - ) Terry Whitebeach - writer, teacher, community artist. Tasmanian. Terminally. She has two adult sons and two adult daughters. For the last four years she has been living and working in Central Australia, very happily, and dreaming of going home to Tasmania..Terry teaches Creative writing for Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education (BIITE) and undergraduate literature for the Institute for Aboriginal Education (IAD), in the La Trobe / IAD Arrernte Bachelor of Arts course. In her spare time she is doing a PhD at the Northern Territory University, in history (their literature department has been dismantled). Her research area is biography: her topic; "Speaking Unspeakable Stories". Terry's collection of poetry, Bird Dream, won the Anne Elder Award for a First Book of Poetry, in 1994, and was shortlisted for the WA Premier's Prize in 1994. Terry is in the early stages of a third novel for young adults, Fish Rain and, after a long unwilling enstrangement from the muse, a second collection of poetry, All The Shamans Work in Safeway. She is also completing the first draft of the biography of a senior Kaytetye man, Don Ross, who was one of the few Aboriginal men to have owned a cattle station in the NT. She was the joint winner of this year's NT Literary Awards, Poetry Division, with a poem "My Daughter".    Photo of Terry Whitebeach by Lyn Woolley, 1999. Terry Whitebeach's publications include: Poetry: Bird Dream, (Four New Poets, 1993, Penguin Books Australia); Novel: Watersky, (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1998), Bantam, (with Michael Brown), (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2002).

Les Wicks (1955 - ) Les Wicks grew up in western suburbs Sydney in a house with few books. A skinny kid with asthma, he learnt to use his mouth to get into and out of trouble. Vietnam savagely divided his family and taught him early activism. By 17 Les had his first poem accepted & was school organiser for the students' strike of 1972. He did a history degree over some years as well as a variety of unskilled and semiskilled jobs while living in Sydney and London. In the late Seventies he embarked on his first publishing exercise - Meuse - and helped set up the Poets Union. By the 80s Les retrained for work as a union industrial advocate, had a child and stopped writing. Words started again around 1992. Les writes, is involved in various publishing ventures via Meuse Press & runs poetry workshops.    Photo of Les Wicks by Brian Tonkin, 2000. Les Wick's publications include: Poetry: The Vanguard Sleeps In, (Glandular, 1981), Cannibals, (Rochford St, 1985), Tickle, (Island Press, 1993), Nitty Gritty, (Five Islands Press, 1997), The Ways of Waves, (SideWaLK [Poets], 2000), appetites of Light, (PressPress, 2002).

Sue Wildman (1959 - ) Sue Wildman is a poet, visual artist and director. She has also scripted/co produced short films and had work shown at St Kilda Film Festival, Blue Mountains Film Festival & ArtFiles Festival. She produced and directed an original musical version of CJ Dennis's Sentimental Bloke as part of Sydney Fringe Festival at Shelly Beach as well as productions for Paddington and Newtown and Bondi Arts Festivals. She co-facilitated (with Simon Lenthen) the "Old Casino" Music & Poetry Performance Nights at Balmain during the early 90s. She won the first NSW Writers' Centre Poetry Cup for Performance Poetry and has had work published in Going Down Swinging, Social Alternatives, Spindrift, Hobo, Inklings, University Newcastle Review, Public Poetry Anthology, Five Live and Live Poets Anthologies. She edited Dreaming under a Bridge - a poetry and visual arts book by people who had experienced homelessness or were sleeping rough. She has had artwork exhibited at ArtSpace, Katoomba, Mosman Gallery, Balmain Watch house, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Newtown and as part of the Blue Mountains Arts Festival.    Photo of Sue Wilman by Stephen Hall, 2004. She currently works with Aboriginal communities in Penrith & Mt Druitt assisting with Community Development and arts projects. Sue Wildman's publications include: Insert publications. Sue Wildman can be contacted at Email: insert (át) insert (dót) com   Go here to Sue Wildman's visual art

Adrian Wiggins (D.O.B. - )

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Carmel Williams (D.O.B. - )

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Donna Williams (D.O.B. - ) Donna Williams was born in Australia in 1963 and grew up in the inner city with more labels than a jam jar. Like many people born in the 1960’s and before, she was not diagnosed with Autism until adulthood. As well as being an artist, sculptor and composer she is also an internationally best-selling author with 8 published books in the field of Autism including three text books and well known public speaker. Her first of four Autobiographical works, Nobody Nowhere, dramatically altered the Autism field. Her first two bestselling books are currently under option by a Hollywood film company. After 13 years living in the UK she now lives back in Australia with her husband Chris.    Photo of Donna Williams by photographer unknown, year unknown. Donna Williams's publications include: Prose: Nobody Nowhere: The Remarkable Autobiography of an Autistic Girl, (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, year unknown), Somebody Somewhere: Breaking Free from the World of Autism, (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, year unknown), Like Colour to the Blind: Soul Searching and Soul Finding, (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, year unknown), Everyday Heaven: Journeys Beyond the Stereotypes of Autism, (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, year unknown), Not Just Anything: A Collection of Thoughts on Paper, (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, year unknown), Autism: An Inside-Out Approach: An Innovative Look at the 'Mechanics' of 'Autism' and its Developmental 'Cousins', (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, year unknown), Autism and Sensing: The Unlost Instinct, (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, year unknown), Exposure Anxiety - The Invisible Cage: An Exploration of Self-Protection Responses in the Autism Spectrum and Beyond, (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, year unknown), The Jumbled Jigsaw: An Insider's Approach to the Treatment of Autistic Spectrum `Fruit Salads', (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, year unknown) Donna Williams can be contacted at Email: bookings (át) donnawilliams (dót) net   Go to Donna William's website

Duncan Williams (1969 - ) Duncan Williams- born at Tamworth, Australia in 1969. Duncan began writing poetry in the early 1990's. His first poem "The 1991 Test" was published in New Visions. A poetry anthology by Writers World on the Queensland Goldcoast. At 21, Duncan became a member of the Henry Lawson society of NSW. and in 1999 was involved in a sponsorship to restore a manuscript written by the late Henry Lawson. Duncan is a proud author and his poems have been collected in many anthologies in The United States, England, India and Australia. Duncan has published two self published books, Some verses i have wriiten and Old bushman's boots an eight verse poem set to illustration. In September 2005, Duncan released a CD, poetic Collection - Poems by Duncan Williams. This Album has 14 original poems about Australia and bush themes. If anyone is interested in obtaining Duncan's books and CD, can do so by contacting Duncan at the address given.    Photo of Ducan Williams by Agfa-foto, 2004. Duncan William's publications include: Poetry: Some verses i have wriiten (self published, year unknown), Old bushman's boots (self published, year unknown), Poems by Duncan Williams (Poetry on CD) (self published, 2005). Duncan Williams can be contacted at: Postal Address: PO Box 746, Tamworth, NSW, 2340, Australia. Email: duncan1969 (át) hotmail (dót) com

Jacquie Williams (D.O.B. - ) Jacquie Williams has been published in the Weekend Australian, Landmark and Northerly. She has also appeatred Poetica (ABC National Radio). She has written a series of poems about her daughters early birth on December 18th 1974 continuing through the cyclone to their arrival in Adelaide. She recently attended the Wollongong Poetry workshop for nine days this year.    Photo of Jacquie Williams by photographer unknown, year unknown. Jacquie Williams's publications include: Insert Publications.

Jane Williams (1964 - ) Jane Williams was born in 1964 in England. Jane's poems have been widely published since the early 1990's in Australian literary journals and newspapers. She was an editor of the Australian poetry journal ars poetica in the mid 1990's. Jane has conducted creative writing workshops in secondary schools, for people with psychiatric disabilities and for the general public. She has held Writers' Residencies at the Varuna Writers' Centre, the Booranga Writers' Centre and within the Victorian Education System. She has been a guest poet at the Melbourne Writers' Festival and the Tasmanian Writers' Festival. Jane has received financial support for editing and writing through Arts Victoria grants. Her first collection of poems outside temple boundaries (Five Islands Press 1998) received the FAW Anne Elder Award. Jane's other awards include the 2005 Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize and the 2005 D.J O'Hearn Memorial Fellowship. She lives in Tasmania with her two daughters where she writes poetry and prose. Jane has a collection of short stories Other Lives due out from Ginninderra Press in 2007.    Photo of Jane Williams by Elizabeth Williams, year unknown. Jane Williams's publications include: Poetry: outside temple boundaries (Five Islands Press 1998), the last tourist (Five Islands Press, 2006). Jane Williams can be contacted at Email: jcmgw (át) msn (dót) com   Go to Jane William's website

Joy Williams (D.O.B. - )

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Lauren Williams (1958 - ) Encountered live poetry at The Living Room in 1983. Returned the next week, with poems. Within a year, purchased a small printing press and began publishing a 'zine, Big Bang, as a text gig for poetry aired at the various venues. Around this time was employed by Collected Works bookshop. The bookshop was a venue for various readings, including a series organised by Williams, the Smith Street Sessions. For the next five years, she moved between poetry and music, reading at every type of event, and singing with various blues/R&B/funk bands until, in 1988, the two artforms merged in the rap crew Itch 2 Scratch. In 1990 and for the next four years, Williams was an associate editor of Going Down Swinging. Her first collection, Driven To Talk To Strangers, was runner-up in the 1991 Anne Elder award. She was one of nine poets in the play Call It Poetry Tonight, at the Wharf Studio in Sydney that year. In 1995 she was the first Australian poet to attend the Festival Internacional de Poesía en Medellín, Colombia. In '96 she commenced a B.A. in Spanish language at La Trobe University, and was awarded a scholarship to Spain in '98. She read her poetry in Madrid and the University of Barcelona, and completed her degree on return to Australia. Her poetry is widely anthologised and has been televised and broadcast nationally. She is a visiting poet in schools and universities, features regularly at Melbourne readings and festivals, and occasionally interstate.    Photo of Lauren Williams by Raffaella Torresan, 1999. Since 2000 she has been convenor of the long-running La Mama Poetica readings. In 2002 she received a New Work grant from the Literature Board of the Australia Council. She sings with blues/rock band, The Negotiators. Lauren Williams's publications include: Poetry: Driven To Talk To Strangers in Live Sentences, (Penguin Books Australia, 1991), User Pays, (with Kerry Scuffins), (SHASU, 1991), High & Low, (Big Bang Publications, 1992), The Sad Anthropologist, (Five Islands Press, 1993), Bad Love Poems, (Soup Publications, 1998), Invisible Tattoos, (Five Islands Press, 2000), Eloquent & other poems, (Picador Press, 2001).

Lucy Williams (D.O.B. - )

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Susan Wills (D.O.B. - )

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Edwin Wilson (1942 - ) Edwin Wilson is a poet who has published fifteen books to date (2002). He was born at Lismore New South Wales and originally lived at East Wardell, then spent a formative decade, aged 6 – 16 years, at Mullumbimby. He completed a science degree in at the University of New South Wales in 1967. After working as a science teacher he lectured at Armidale Teachers’ College (1968 – 1972) and planted a garden of now maturing trees at 'The Poet's House.' In 1972 Edwin Wilson was appointed as an Education Officer at The Australian Museum. Since 1980 he has worked in community Relations at the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. He is listed in the OUP publication Australian Poets & Their Works (1996), the second edition of The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (1994), and both editions of W.D. Thorpe’s Who’s Who of Australian Writers.    Photo of Edwin Wilson by Paul Pulati, 1990. Edwin Wilson's publications include: Poetry: Banyan, (Woodbine Press, 1982), Liberty, Egality, Fraternity!, (Woodbine Press, 1984), The Dragon Tree, (Woodbine Press, 1985), Wild Tamarind, (Woodbine Press, 1986), Falling Up Into Verse, (Woodbine Press, 1989), Songs of the Forest, (Hale & Iremonger, 1990), The Rose Garden, (Woodbine Press, 1991), The Wishing Tree, (Kangaroo Press, 1992), The Botanic Verses, (Rainforest Publishing, 1993), Chaos Theory, (Woodbine Press, 1997), Cosmos Seven: Selected Poems 1967 – 1997, (Woodbine Press, 1998), Collected Poems 1967-2002, (Kardonair Press, 2002), Asteroid Belt, (Woodbine Press, 2002); Novel: Cedar House, (Woodbine Press, 2001); Non-Fiction: Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney,(editor), (Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, 1982), Discovering the Domain, (editor), (Hale & Iremonger, 1986), The Mullumbimby Kid: A Portrait of the Poet as a Child, (autobiography), (Woodbine Press, 2000). Edwin Wilson can be contacted at Email: woodbinepress (át) hotmail (dót) com

Tara June Winch (D.O.B. - )

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Wonguri-Mandjiagai People, north eastern Arnhem Land (1925 - ) Insert biographical details.    Photo of poets by photographer, year. Wonguri-Mandjiagai People's publications include: Publication details forthcoming.

Jack Wood (1906 - ????)

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Dennis Woodley (D.O.B. - ) Dennis lives in Mansfield, Victoria and is an active member of the local writers group. He has been published in Red Lantern and various anthologies. He is still flogging copies of his grossly under-appreciated collection - DROP DEAD SHE SAID and other Love Poems. He is currently working on a series called New Songs for an Old Faith.    Photo of Dennis Woodley by Pamela Sidney, 1994. Dennis Woodley's publications include: Poetry: Drop Dead She Said and Other Poems, (T'set, 1993).

Tom Woodruff "Thom The World Poet" (1949 - ) Thom The World Poet has published 92 books of poetry, 15 CDs, 35 cassettes of poetry and music (improvisational) tapes. Host of Poetry Karaoke and Kung Fu Poetry as well as Expressions 2003. His latest chapbook #81 is People Have Rights! He is a founder of AIPF, APAL and FRINGEFEAST as well as staging 2001 poets in April of next year. He tours England and Australia regularly and was a featured guest at The Cheltenham Literature Festival (1996-2000), Bristol International Poetry Festival (1999-2000), Steel City Revels (2000), Paddington International Poetry Festival (2000), the Sydney International Poetry Festival (1998) and the Queensland Poetry Festival (1998-1999). He has supported Bob Dylan (with Mother Gong - Kansas City 1991), Big Brother and the Holding Company (San Francisco-Eyebeam-1991)and Russell Crowe'S 30 Odd Foot Of Grunts (Stubbs BBQ-2001). He is available for poetry workshops with students at all levels and has been writer in residence at Kansas City School Of Performing Arts (1996), Charles Sturt University (1995) and Dickinson University of New Jersey (1999).    Photo of Thom The World Poet by Russell Daze, 2007. Thom The World Poet's publications include: Poetry: Icons of Consciousness, (cdrom), (Waltsan Publishing, 2002), A POEM A DAY FOR PEACE, (New CD book), (publisher unknown, year unknown). Thom The World Poet can be contacted at Email: worldpoet (át) rocketmail (dót) com   Go to Thom The World Poet's website

Janet Woods (1939 - ) British born, Janet left school at 15 and married at the age of 19. The family migrated to Australia in 1967 and settled in WA with their family. Her husband's employment took them to the North of the state, where they spent many years. Janet's principle role was being a full time wife, and mother to four children - a role which included much voluntary work, such as Brownie packs, canteen worker, local festival stalls and the missions to seamen. She attended night school at Karratha WA and gained a certificate of secondary education, the subjects taken being history and English. It was there she wrote her first poem, "Red Dog". It won a competition. When Janet moved to Perth, she began to take the relationship between writing and herself more seriously and embarked on a general creative writing correspondence course with the writing school. She abandoned it with one lesson left to complete, after deciding she wouldn't write anything she didn't personally enjoy, or which she found to be a chore. The lesson was technical writing. The course helped her to sort out her writing priorities, and the two short stories she wrote as part of the course did find publishers.    Photo of Janet Woods by Sharon Micenko, 2006. Janet joined The Society of Women Writers, WA, where she found the encouragement and support she needed at the time, and now belongs to several other writing organizations, in Australia and abroad. She prefers to write full length mainstream family relationship novels, historical saga and historical romance. They often explore emotive issues such as child abuse, adoption and divorce. Her twenty-fifth novel has just been accepted. As well as novels she enjoys writing short stories, including the occasional story for children. They number over fifty, and have been published internationally and at home, in popular magazines, such as Woman's Day and Women's Weekly. Several of her stories have won awards, or been placed in competition. In draft state, her first historical romance, "Daughter of Darkness," won a major prize from over 1500 novels entered in the 1996 Women's Day/Random House competition. After publication by Robert Hale, UK, the novel went on to win the mainstream section of the 2002 "Romantic Book Of The Year" award, a competition sponsored by the "Romance Writers of Australia." She's won the bronze Quill for short story writing twice, an award run by The Society of Women Writers, WA. In 2001 she was awarded honorary life membership of the society. Over the years I've been an active member of several writers' organisations in the following ways: The Romance Writers of America: Judging novels for the Rita awards. ASA: mentor and professional assessor. SWW, WA: Tea lady. Fourteen years on committee (now retired) Competition receiving officer, Federal Treasurer. Branch President. Co-compiler and editor of the SWW, WA millennium anthology Footprints. Freo festival: Word of Mouth committee. Romance Writers of Australia: WA One day romance seminar organiser. Competition judge (various). Tutorial presenter and panelist at interstate romantic novelists' conferences. Janet's most recent books have been published by Simon & Schuster UK and Severn House UK, and can be found on her website. Janet Woods's publications include: Daughter of Darkness (Robert Hale, 2000). Janet Woods can be contacted at Email: woods (át) iinet (dót) net (dót) au

David McKee Wright (1869 - 1928)

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Judith Wright (1915 - 2000) Judith Wright was born into a pastoralist family at Thalgarrah near Armidale in Northern New South Wales, and educated by correspondence and at New England Girls’ School and the University of Sydney. She visited Europe before the Second World War and settled in Sydney and later in Queensland. She was a feminist from an early age. Her first book was The Moving Image (1946), which placed her firmly among the brilliant generation of 1940s poets. In the last decade of her life she put aside poetry to concentrate her energies on conservation, peace and Aboriginal issues, which had been life-long interests. Along with Slessor and Webb she is regarded as one of Australia’s major poets.    Photo of Judith Wright by Jenni Mitchell, 1997. Judith Wright's publications include: Insert publication details.

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Warrick Wynne (1956 - ) Warrick Wynne has been writing poetry for over twenty years and has been published in a wide variety of journals in Australia and overseas. Many of his poems centre around notions of landscape and the natural world, particularly rivers and streams, the coastline of Port Phillip Bay and the ocean. Other recurring interests are the landscapes of suburban edges and the past. A member of the Poets Union and the Fellowship of Australian Writers, Wynne is also an assistant editor of Famous Reporter Magazine, poetry correspondent for The Mariner (a Mornington Peninsula independent newspaper) and convenor of the Education Committee of the Poetry Australia Foundation. His poetry has been recognised with several awards including the Northern Territory Red Earth Poetry Award (1992) and the Max Harris Poetry Prize (2003). He was also awarded an international fellowship from the Australia Council (2000) to work on a poetry project in Ireland. Wynne lives and teaches English on the Mornington Peninsula, south of Melbourne.    Photo of Warrick Wynne by Pheobe Wynne, 2002. Warrick Wynne's publications include: Poetry: Lost Things & Other Poems, (Butterfly Books, 1992), The Colour of Maps (Five Islands Press, 1995), The State of Rivers and Streams (Five Islands Press, 2002). Warrick Wynne can be contacted at Email: warrickw (át) netspace (dót) net (dót) au Go to Warrick Wynne's website

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