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Ron Simpson was born in Melbourne in 1929, studied with the Christian Brothers, then at Melbourne Teachers' College and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He taught in schools in England and Australia before his apppointment to the Chisolm Institute of Technology from which he retired as a Senior Lecturer in Art and Literature in 1987. He was poetry Editor at the Bulletin (1963-65), and Poetry Editor of the Age from 1969 until he retired from that position in 1997. He travels frequently to the United States. He still combines drawing with the writing of poetry, though he is far better known as a poet. In 1992 he received the Victorian FAW Christopher Brennan Award for his achievement as a poet, and in 1999 the Age Book of the Year for poetry with The Impossible and Other Poems (Five Islands Press). |
