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Terry
has worked as a Teacher, Dramaturg, Festival Director
(Emerging Writers' Festival 2005) and as Writer-in-Community
for the City of Boroondara. He has been published
widely both in Australia and overseas. His first
volume of poetry, BUOY,
was published in 2001 by Five Islands Press, and
was highly commended in The Anne Elder Award by
the Fellowship of Australian Writers.
His
poetry has also been anthologised in NEW
MUSIC: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN
POETRY, alongside major Australian poets
such as, Les Murray, Bruce Dawe and Dorothy Porter.
Terry is in great demand as a reader/performer
of his own work and others, reading regularly
at local and interstate festivals. Terry
was on the winning team of the Melbourne Writers'
Festival "Babble" Poetry Slam 2004 and
winner of the Victorian Writers' Centre Poetry
Cup 2004. Recently he returned from a four month
stint in Singapore writing and reading new work.
He is more than able to enagage and hold an audience.
His readings are known for their high standard
of performance and emotive qualities.
Presentations
include workshops on the craft of writing generally
or poetry specifically. His orphanage monologues
are a great illustration of writing in the confessional
mode and/or "life" writing and are used
to that end in a workshop scenario. |
