![]() Marlow’s story begins with his childhood fascination with nineteenth century European world maps, colour-coded to denote the colonial possessions of the imperial European powers: Britain (red), France (blue), Portugal (orange), Italy (green), Germany (purple), Belgium (yellow). The decline of VCE Literature as a subject in Victoria prompted him to share his teaching resources online.įeaturing the poetry of Australian writer Adrian D’Ambra. In the 1990s he taught overseas for the ISTEK Vakfi in Istanbul, Turkey, and the Amman Baccalaureate School in Jordan. ![]() He is also a retired English and Literature teacher living in Melbourne where he has taught at Frankston High School, Haileybury and McKinnon Secondary College. He is currently working on a major retrospective poetic opus called 'Fragments 1-60'. Early in the new millennium he reinvented himself as a writer by writing a book-length study of the lyrics of Bob Dylan called 'Perfect Stranger' which is now complete but remains unpublished. Through the 70s, 80s and 90s he 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). Sarkasticwizard on Am I an Idiot? Some Thoughts o…Įllen D'Ambra on Am I an Idiot? Some Thoughts o…Įnglish literature t… on War of the WorldsĪdrian D'Ambra is a poet and author of the self-published 'The Flowers of Impotence' (1983) and the chapbook 'Cavafy’s Room' (Nosukumo Press, Labassa in Caulfield, 1987). ![]() Unfolding in the Actual, A Letter to John Kinsella.The Map’s Folded Away Farewell Robert Adamson.Aesthetic Surrender, Hanya Yanagihara and Frances O’Connor. ![]()
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