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Photo by Lyn Bryce |
Hello and welcome to my website
Born and raised in Perth Western Australia, I have lived here most of my life, except for three years in Adelaide and some time residing in rural WA, including: Kalgoorlie, Bridgetown and Peppermint Grove Beach. My interests are mainly in the arts, environmentalism and social justice. I am a freelance writer, poet, haiku writer, editor, amateur photographer, artist, website builder/designer, and digital media artist.
I have two sons, Jeffrey and Robert and a daughter, Kathy. I started writing poetry when my children were young, and particularly enjoyed writing personalised nursery rhymes and lullabys. I didn't take my writing seriously until I started Uni in 1995. Since then, I have gained vast writer-in-the-community experience and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Writing, which I completed at Edith Cowan University, with some of my studies undertaken at Murdoch University and Flinders University. |
HAIKU:
I was fortunate to be offered, and to complete, an intense mentorship (writing, researching, critiquing and workshopping of haiku for publication) with mentor, John Bird in 2007, and am currently the HaikuOz WA Regional Representative. I also run haiku workshops regularly in WA. My haiku has been widely published nationally and internationally, in such journals as the Heron's Nest, Paper Wasp, Famous Reporter, Stylus Poetry Journal, Haiku Australia Dreaming, FreeExpressions and Creatrix Poetry Journal. I find haiku writing and haiku's awe of nature, to be particularly meditative, healing and inspiring. With the frustration and anger at the continual destruction of the environment, I find haiku is a way of keeping myself calm and in the 'now'.
POETRY:
My poetry has been widely published internationally and nationally. I have also had success in national poetry competitions. I have been a regular guest reader at venues around Perth and Adelaide since 1995, and have organised many readings in WA. Believing in the importance of poetry, I have been actively involved in trying to raise community awareness of the relevance of poetry in our lives today. Poets throughout history have also been at the forefront of political and social challenges and changes, and, I believe, need to be more active at this time. I plan to use my writing, photography and art as a way of voicing my concerns, and hopefully helping to bring about awareness and change.
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