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A very strange individual born in footscray, grew up in swamps ov west sunshine, quite near explosives factory, speedway & drive-in theatre has lived in various parts ov melbourne winner ov the 1993 R.L. Rankin Prize for Poetry things he wrote covering many genres have appeared in many places & formatslive, aurally and on the page: published in sane, hurricane, poetry on paper etc; performed/read on community radio stations, 3RRR-FM, Southern FM, 3CR; featured readings at various venues including Lame Duck Readings at the No Exit Café (1994), Perseverance Poets (1990-1994), Clifton Hill Hotel, La Mama Poetica, Karnival (Fringe Opening 1994/5 memory¹s a bit hazy on that one), Mega Scribes (Fringe Festival Event), Victorian Writer¹s Centre (1996), Smith Street Bar & Bistro (2002), Unleashed @ The Brandon Hotel (2002) and Poetry Overboard @ Good Morning Captain 15 August 2002 he is accumulating a reference library he hopes to be able to install into his brain a member of the Victorian Writers Centre, Melbourne Poets Union inc., Poetry Australia Foundation and sometime member of Society of Editors (Vic), NIMBA (a northern suburbs twin club) and X-Files Fan Club of Australia, (well, one ov the early unofficial ones); he is currently editor ov the melbourne poets union inc. newsletter poam & its electronic avatar, epoam and has had many teachers over many years comment on his overfondness for parentheses. |