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Michael Dugan (poet)
Michael Dugan (1947 – 16 March 2006) was an Australian poet, children's writer, and editor. In 1968, he first published his own small poetry magazine, ''Crosscurrents'', from the Melbourne suburb of Canterbury. He created the ''King Hippo Poetry Band'' who performed folk-rock versions of well-known poems. With Phillip Edmonds and Robert Kenny, he was involved in the development of ''Contempa Publications''. In the 1970s, he worked as a consultant to the publisher Jacaranda Press, and was the editor of ''The Australian Library News'' Furthermore, Dugan co-founded and edited ''Bookmark''. In the 1980s, he was a consultant and an editor for the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs. He worked as poetry editor of ''Overland magazine'' for many years. He served as vice-president of the ''Victorian Fellowship of Australian Writers''. He has also written plays and scripts for radio. Along with his works in children's literature, Dugan has an extensive background in Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copy Editing
Copy editing (also known as copyediting and manuscript editing) is the process of revising written material ( copy) to improve readability and fitness, as well as ensuring that text is free of grammatical and factual errors. ''The Chicago Manual of Style'' states that manuscript editing encompasses "simple mechanical corrections (mechanical editing) through sentence-level interventions (line, or stylistic, editing) to substantial remedial work on literary style and clarity, disorganized passages, baggy prose, muddled tables and figures, and the like (substantive editing)". In the context of print publication, copy editing is done before typesetting and again before proofreading. Outside traditional book and journal publishing, the term ''copy editing'' is used more broadly, and is sometimes referred to as proofreading, or the term ''copy editing'' sometimes includes additional tasks. Although copy editors are generally expected to make simple revisions to smooth awkward passages, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canterbury, Victoria
Canterbury is an eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 km from Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Boroondara local government area. Canterbury recorded a population of 7,800 at the 2021 census. Famed for its leafy green boulevards and substantial, opulent historic residences, Canterbury is one of Melbourne's most expensive and exclusive suburbs. Geography Canterbury extends as far as Mont Albert Road in the north, Burke Road in the west, Chatham and Highfield Roads in the east and Riversdale Road to the south. The main thoroughfare through Canterbury is Canterbury Road, which runs east–west and roughly bisects the suburb. Canterbury is the home to many of Victoria's oldest and most prestigious private schools, including Camberwell Grammar School, Camberwell Girls Grammar School and Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School. Other schools include Camberwell High School, Canterbury Girls' Secondary College and Canterbury Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jenkins (poet)
John Jenkins (born 1949) is an Australian poet, non-fiction author and editor.> He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of many books, mostly poetry and non-fiction. Early life and education Jenkins was born in Melbourne in 1949, and grew up in the suburb of Elwood, the younger of two children. He attended Burwood Technical School and Box Hill High School. He studied business subjects at Swinburne University of Technology. Career Jenkins worked in educational publishing in the 1970s, then widely in commercial journalism until 2000. He has since worked as a book editor, and taught at Box Hill Institute of TAFE, University of Melbourne (School of Creative Arts) and La Trobe University. His first book of poems, ''Zone of the White Wolf and Other Landscapes'' was published in 1974; he co-edited (with Michael Dugan) the collection of innovative short fiction, ''The Outback Reader'' (1975) while his first non-fiction title, ''22 Australian Contemporary Composers'', appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Honey
Elizabeth Madden HoneyHer first name in German-language publications is usually given as "Elisabeth" (e.gAmazon (born 7 February 1947) is an Australian children's author, illustrator and poet, best known for her picture books and middle-grade novels. Her books have been published internationally. She lives in Richmond, Melbourne. In 1997, she won the Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book for ''Not a Nibble''. She also received the Prize Cento and the Young Australians Best Book Award (YABBA) for ''45 & 47 Stella Street and everything that Happened''. In 2001, she was the recipient of the Australian Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature. Life and career Honey was born in the coal mining town of Wonthaggi in Gippsland, Victoria. She grew up on a dairy farm, the third in a family of four. A sickly child she became an avid reader. After the family moved to a farm near Geelong she attended high school at Morongo Girls' College. In Melbourne, H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Deaths
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Australian Male Poets
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