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Thylazine: The Australian Journal of Arts, Ethics & Literature                                                                                                                                     #12/thyla12e AUSTRALIAN POETS AT WORK SERIES 2 Jeri Kroll, David Barnes, Judith Bishop, Tricia Dearborn, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Tatjana Lukic, David Musgrave, Angela Costi, Kris Hemensley, Barbara De Franceschi, Geoff Page and Debra Westbury Selected by Coral Hull Jeri Kroll Jeri Kroll is Professor of English and Program Coordinator of Creative Writing at Flinders University. Her critical publications cover children's literature, Samuel Beckett, contemporary poetry and the pedagogy and theory of creative writing. Her newest book, due late 2007, is Creative Writing Studies: Practice, Research, Pedagogy (Multilingual Matters, UK), co-edited with Graeme Harper. Some of Jeri's twenty-two books have appeared in Canada, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, the UK and the US. They include collections of poems and stories, picture books and fiction for the young adult market. A Coat of Cats (another CBC Notable), with pictures by Ann James, helps ...    [Above] Photo of Jeri Kroll by Jeff Chilton, 2007. David Barnes I have been an active Perth poet & internet poet, and have been published around Australia at many online poetry venues in America, England and France. I was first published in hardback in the Paris/Atlantic, a literary journal in 2001. And in the Poets Hall of Fame Anthology released late 2001, with further work published in two Anthologies released in 2001 & 2002 by Empowa Inc' here in Western Australia. My work has also been published in Firefly Magazine (USA). My poetry was accepted for inclusion in Anthology Number (ii) released in Austin Texas 2003. I was invited to be a featured poet in the September Issue of Poetic Voices 2003. And I have poems in ...    [Above] Photo of David Barnes by photographer unknown, 2007. Judith Bishop Dr. Judith Bishop lives in Sydney, where she works as a linguist and project manager. Her first collection of poems, Event, will be published by Salt Publishing in June 2007. As a linguist, she works with speakers of many different languages, and the opportunity to meet these people who have remade their lives in Australia, and to learn something of their languages, is a great privilege. Judith wrote her PhD on an Aboriginal language of the Northern Territory, Bininj Gun-wok (specifically, the dialects known as Manyallaluk Mayali, Gun-Djeihmi, Kunwinjku and Kuninjku). She has a Master of Philosophy degree in French Literature from Cambridge University, and a Master of Fine Arts in Writing ...    [Above] Photo of Judith Bishop by photographer unknown, year unknown. Tricia Dearborn Tricia Dearborn is a Sydney poet, writer and editor. She was born in 1963 in Glen Innes, NSW and moved to Bathurst with her family when she was two. She later moved to Sydney to go to University, graduating with an Honours degree in Biochemistry and a Master of Arts. She now lives in Sydney's inner west. Tricia has written short stories, essays, articles, a children's story about a heroic slug, a biochemistry thesis, and educational books for children and teachers. In 1998, she was selected as one of the 'mentees' for the inaugural Varuna Residential Mentorship for Poetry, with Deb ...    [Above] Photo of Tricia Dearborn by Tricia Dearborn, 2003. Chris Wallace-Crabbe 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 ...    [Above] Photo of Chris Wallace-Crabbe by photographer unknown, year unknown. Tatjana Lukic Tatjana Lukic is an Australian with a strong Slavic accent. Born in Croatia, she lived in Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia and Czech Republic before migrating to Australia in 1992. She studied philosophy and sociology in Sarajevo, and worked as a college teacher, poetry editor and sociologist/researcher. In the 80s she published four books of poetry in the former Yugoslavia, and won a few national awards. She writes and translates poetry and lives in Canberra and works as a researcher for a government department. Her publications include (Poetry Collections in Croatian): Saslusanje (Nolit, Belgrade, 1988), Izbor (Mali katalog poezije, Osijek, 1985), Sta sutim (Svjetlost, Sarajevo, ...    [Above] Photo of Tatjana Lukic by Karen Bachelor, 2003. David Musgrave 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 ...    [Above] Photo of David Musgrave by James Ostinga, year unknown. Angela Costi Angela Costi's poetry and other writing have been widely published, broadcast and produced. Since 1994, she has been freelancing full time as a writer and editor, completing commissions for organisations including, "ReLOCATED" a full length play and text exhibition for Melbourne City Council based on her writer's residency at the Kensington Housing Commission Estate, "Shimmer", for the City of Darebin and a play inspired by interviews with girls from the working class suburbs of Melbourne. She has written seven staged plays, two of which have been produced for ...    [Above] Photo of Angela Costi by Helena Spyrou, 2005. Kris Hemensley Kris Hemensley was born in England in 1946; saw Australia as sailor in 1965, emigrated in 1966. Has always lived in Melbourne, and in Dorset/England since late 80s. Books of poetry include an early selected poems, Domestications (1974); The Poem of the Clear Eye (1975); A Mile From Poetry (1979). Many chapbooks since 1968 published in Australia & England. Included in several anthologies including, Applestealers (1974), The New Australian Poetry (1978), Australian Verse (1998). Writes fiction & has been a playwright with stage & radio productions of his work since 1967. A commentator on & reviewer of poetry since the 1970s. Member of collective which ran Collected Works ...    [Above] Photo of Kris Hemensley by Bernard Hemmensley, 2005. Barbara De Franceschi Barbara De Franceschi was born in Broken Hill and is passionate about the city and its desert surrounds. A prolific writer of poetry, her works have been published Australia-wide and internationally. Barbara is an adventurous writer and is continuously trying to find new ways and forms to present her work. As well as devoting her time to writing Barbara runs a local business with her husband. The City Council of Broken Hill presented her with a Citizenship Award in 2000 for her service to the community. In 2002 Barbara was awarded the 'Order of Australia' medal in recognition of her contribution and involvement in multicultural affairs and events. This commitment continues and was ...    [Above] Photo of Barbara De Franceschi by Boris Hlavica, 2005. Geoff Page Geoff Page is a Canberra poet who has published thirteen books of poetry, two novels, a biography, and a book of short stories and poems, and has 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, ...    [Above] Photo of Geoff Page by Alison Hastie, 2006. Debra Westbury Debra 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 Islands Press. Since it was added to the HSC syllabus in 1998, Mouth to Mouth has been republished by Hodder Education and Cambridge University Press. Westbury has developed a dual career as a distinguished writer and teacher of writing. 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. Poems in all four of Debra's previous ...    [Above] Photo of Debra Westbury by Joe Bugden, 2004. I Next I Back I Exit I Thylazine No.12 (June, 2007)