The VCE Literature subject is in decline across the state of Victoria and for the first time in many years a Year 12 class will not run at McKinnon in 2016 due to a lack of interest. For a range of personal and professional reasons I stopped writing imaginatively for about a decade during my forties before deciding to reinvent myself as a writer five years ago by undertaking a non-fiction project - a book-length study of the lyrics of Bob Dylan called 'Perfect Stranger' - which is now complete. Through the 70s, 80s and 90s I placed individual poems, essays and freelance journalism with magazines and newspapers in Australia (Brisbane Courier-Mail, Canberra Times, Carrionflower Writ, Education Quarterly, Hermes, Mattoid, New England Review, Outrider, Poetry Australia, Prints, Salt, Melbourne Sun, Verandah, Voices, Wasteland, Weekend Australian), Canada (Toronto Globe & Mail), Jordan (Ad-Dustour, Jordan Times, The Star, Royal Wings), New Zealand (Christchurch Press), Turkey (Hello Istanbul, Littera, TEFL Turkey Reporter, Turkish Daily News), the United Kingdom (Acumen, Envoi, Odyssey, Ore) and the United States (Deus Loci, Snow Apple). Many years ago I was involved briefly in the poetry scene in Melbourne, self-publishing an early collection of poems called 'The Flowers of Impotence' in 1983 and then having a chapbook called 'Cavafy’s Room' published by Nosukumo Press out of Labassa in Caulfield in 1987. I have also taught overseas for the ISTEK Vakfi in Istanbul, Turkey, and the Amman Baccalaureate School in Jordan. Over the years I have taught at Frankston High School, Haileybury and McKinnon Secondary College in the south-eastern suburbs.
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