WHERE'S THE DRAMA?

Writer - (Radio adaptation) Sixteen Words For Water. ABC Radio
National (FM), Starring Simon Chilvers, Pamela Rabe and Rachel
Szalay. Produced by Mike Ladd. Directed by Chris Williams.
Broadcast February, 1996.

Writer - Baby. A half-hour radio play. ABC Radio National ["The
Box Seat"]. Starring David Field and Rebecca Frith. Produced &
directed by Chris Williams. August, 1995.

Writer - Kate Cerebrano & Wendy Matthews Live at the Koko Club:
You've Always Got The Blues.  - ABC-TV music special. Directed by
Lindsay Frazer. 1994.

Writer - The Dreaming Place.  A play. Produced by Toe Truck
Theatre Company. Belvoir Street Theatre, September/October, 1993.

Author - Taking America Out Of The Boy.  Best-selling autobiography.
Published by Hodder and Stoughton, 1993.

Writer/Post-production director - Call It Poetry.  A 50-minute
documentary about the making of the stage play, CALL IT POETRY/TONIGHT.  ABC-TV. July, 1993. Asian television: 1994.

Writer/performer - In Occupied Territory. A verse play. Produced by
REM Theatre Company at the Sydney Opera House, and at Bombala, NSW, in association with the Bennelong Programme. Directed by Roger Rynd.  September, 1992.

Writer/presenter - Lone Ant From A Broken Anthill. A 20-minute radio documentary about the poet, Ezra Pound. ABC Radio National - "Fictions".  Produced by Ron Blair. July, 1992. [Note: The full text of this program was published as a feature article in the ABC?s Radio magazine, 24 Hours - February, 1996.

Co-producer/director/performer - Out Loud!  Two nights of live readings by Australia?s best performance poets. Recorded "live" at the NSW Writers' Centre, and broadcast by ABC Radio National, March, 1992.

Author - Sixteen Words For Water. Playscript. Published by Harper/
Collins (Angus & Robertson), August, 1991.
 
Writer/presenter - The Power of the Song. A 20-minute radio programme featuring poems from SINGING THE SNAKE. ABC Radio National, "Fictions". Produced by Ron Blair. August, 1991.

Co-writer/producer/director/performer - Call It Poetry/Tonight. An
experimental, verse play.  Sydney Theatre Company, Studio Theatre,
February-March, 1991.

Author - Singing The Snake : Poems from the Western Desert, 1979-1988. Published by Angus & Robertson. March, 1990. 2nd edition issued May, 1990.

Writer - Fire in the Heart. Twelve, half-hour episodes of a fourteen-
part drama series. Singapore television in association with the National Productivity Board. Produced by Nene Morgan. Aired October-December, 1990.

Director/performer - Off the Page / On the Stage. An evening of poetry, jazz & comedy. Stables Theatre. December, 1989.

Author - Lasseter : In Quest of Gold. Up-dated, enlarged edition of
the 1985 best-selling hardback edition of  Lasseter : The Making of
a Legend  (Allen & Unwin). Published by Hodder & Stoughton. November, 1989.

Series Writer - Mission: Impossible.  Paramount Television (USA).
Producer: Michael Fisher. 1988-89.

Writer/producer - Nosepeg's Movie. A film biography of the Central
Australian Aboriginal elder, Tjungkarta "Nosepeg" Tjupurrula. Directed by Lindsay Frazer. 50 mins. Premiere screening on ABC-TV, June, 1989.

Author - The Speed of Darkness. A novel. Published by Greenhouse
Press. May, 1989.

Writer - An American Jelly. A one-hour radio special, Radio Helicon.
ABC Radio National. Produced by Amanda Stewart in cooperation with William Stoneking, 1988.

Major writer/contributor - Unsung Heroes and Heroines of Australia.
Edited by Suzy Baldwin. Published by Greenhouse Press in association with the Australian Bicentennial Authority, Sydney. 1988.

Creator/co-writer - Stringer. Award-winning ABC-TV drama series.
Directed by Ken Cameron, Chris Thomson and Kathy Mueller. Produced by John Edwards. 1988.

Author - Stringer. A novel. Published by ABC Books. 1988.

Writer - Pride & Prejudice. Documentary about Aboriginal culture
(tribal and urban). Episode 3 of  "Images of Australia". 50 mins.
Produced and Directed by Chris McCullough. ABC-TV. 1988.

Writer  - The Power and the Glory : A history of gold mining. A film
documentary.  Narrated by Bill Peach. 50 mins. Produced by Broadcom. 1987.

Writer - Project Earth. Educational film (docu-drama) about the
world of computers. Powerhouse Museum Theatrette. 10 mins. 1986.

Writer  - No Is Okay. A docu-drama about sexual harassment in the
workplace. Produced by Film Australia for the Federal Attorney's-
General Department, Canberra. 28 mins. 1986.

Writer - The Rite. A one-act play. Produced by the National Institute
of Dramatic Art as part of their "New Works - '85". Directed by Stephanie Rigold. November, 1985.

Author - Lasseter : The Making of a Legend. Non-fiction chronicle
of the 1930 Lasseter expedition. Published in hardback by George
Allen & Unwin, Sydney. 1985.

Writer - Looking for Lasseter. Radio doco/drama. Directed by Barry
Oakley for ABC Radio Helicon. 1985.

Writer - U.H.F.  Television information film. Directed by Nick Frazer
for Special Broadcasting Service. 1985.

Writer - Fighting for a Century. Doco/drama about the history of
the New South Wales Fire Brigade. Directed by Tony Bowman. Produced by DeMontigne Productions for the New South Wales Fire Brigade. 1984.

Writer/narrator - Desert Stories. A documentary about bi-lingualism
and Aboriginal storytelling. SBS-TV. 1984.

Writer - Nighthawks. Drama. 35mm 8mins. Directed by John Power.
Produced by the Australian Film & Television School. 1983.

Writer - Bunyip. (w/ Steve Wright) 8 mins. Produced by the Australian
Film and Television School. 1983.

Editor - The Stories of Obed Raggett.  Stories by an Aboriginal elder.
Alternative Publishing Cooperative, Sydney, 1980.

Editor - Touch the Man (selected poems) by Ivan McConchie. Kembali
Books. First published in 1976. Re-printed in 1976.

Editor - Kembali anthologies: "Mantra", "Songs of Maya", "...inside the
moment", "Threads of the Pattern". (1974-1978)


Other publications

Poems, stories, articles, criticism & other writing have appeared in


Newspapers:

THE AGE, THE CANBERRA TIMES, THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN, SYDNEY TELEGRAPH, THE MELBOURNE HERALD, ADELAIDE OBSERVER, THE WEST AUSTRALIAN, DARWIN NEWS, CENTRALIAN ADVOCATE (Alice Springs), KATHERINE COURIER (N.T., Australia), KINGSTON FREEMAN (NY, USA), LOS ANGELES TIMES (Sunday edition), SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, SANTA CLARA METRO (USA), SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL (USA), VIRGIN PRESS, MAGGIES FARM, WASP, HONI SOIT.


Australian magazines/journals:

ANCESTOR, ASH, ASPECT, AUSTRALIAN STYLE, AUSTRALIAN WAY, AUSTRALASIAN BOOK REVIEW, AUSTRALASIAN SMALL PRESS REVIEW, BRAVE NEW WORD, BULLETIN, BYSTANDER, CHOOK CHOOK, COMPASS, ELLIMATA, FALLEN ANGELS, FREMANTLE ARTS REVIEW, ISLAND, KEMBALI, THE LAST POETS' CHOICE, LINQ, LIVE POETS' SOCIETY (LITMUS SUITE), LONG WATER (Vols. 1 & 2), LUNA, MAKAR, MATTOID, MEANJIN, MEDIA INFORMATION AUSTRALIA, MERRI CREEK JOURNAL, NEW POETRY, NORTHERN PERSPECTIVE, OFF THE PAGE (Vols. 1, 2, 3, & 4), THE OPEN DOOR, OVERLAND, PHOENIX REVIEW, POEMS IN PUBLIC PLACES, POETRY AUSTRALIA, POST-MODERN WRITING, RAPPORT, REAL POETRY, SALT, SCOPP, SEE PAGE 207, THE SMALL TIMES, SOUTHERLY, SOUTHERN REVIEW, 24 HOURS, WESTERLY,
X-PRESS, YOUR FRIENDLY FASCIST.


Overseas magazines/journals:

ANTIGONISH REVIEW (Nova Scotia), ANTIPODES (USA), CAESURA (San Jose Centre for Poetry & Literature, USA), CROSSCURRENTS (USA), FRESH! (USA), MELANGE (USA), LA JORNADA (Mexico), LUCID MOON (USA), PRISM INTERNATIONAL (University of British Columbia, Canada), THE READER (University of Liverpool, UK), SAN MIGUEL READER (Mexico), SNOW APPLE (USA), STAND (U.K.), TULE REVIEW (USA).



Books/anthologies/textbooks:

A FIELD GUIDE TO ULURU/KATA TJURTA (Australian National Parks Service); A TIME TO CHOOSE; ABOUT LITERATURE (Macmillan textbook), BORDER TERRITORY (Unorthodox Australian Writing), THE EARTH AND THE BODY (Random House, USA); INSTRUCTIONS FOR HONEY ANTS (1983 Mattara Prize anthology), MEDUNG JACK KUNTIKUNTI (Bi-lingual anthology of Australian verse - English/Bahasa Indonesian); MYTHSCAPES; NORTH OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS; OFF THE RECORD (Penguin anthology), OXFORD BOOK OF MODERN AUSTRALIAN VERSE (ed. by Les Murray); OXFORD COMPANION AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE; PAPUNYA/TULA PAINTINGS;
THE  PENGUIN BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN POETRY (ed. By John Tranter); RATTLING IN THE WIND; A READER'S GUIDE TO AUSTRALIAN POETRY (ed. by Geoff Page), REVISIONS (Longman Cheshire); THE TEMPERAMENT OF GENERATIONS (Fifty years of Writing in Meanjin); TOP LINES (From Australian Contemporary Poets), ANTHOLOGY OF WORLD LITERATURE (Viking Press).



Others (including ezines):

ALLENDE (Mexican e-zine), ALICUBI JOURNAL (NYC ezine), THE ALSOP REVIEW (USA ezine), BARBARIAN POETS REVIEW, BLACK ORCHID (USA), CALL IT POETRY (50-minute television documentary); CHOICES = the 1999 PoetFest Anthology (USA), DeHAVILLAND's POETRY PAGE (Australia); EMPYRIOS.ORG (USA): THE FAE WHIRL (Netherlands); GANGWAY #13 (Austrian ezine), KOOKAMONGA SQUARE (USA ezine), MINDFIRE (USA); OZ MUSE (Poets' Union newsletter); POETRYMAGAZINE.COM (NY), SHELTON LEA?S RADICAL POETS (45-minute video); NIGHTCLUB POETRY MAG PAD (Spoleto Fringe publication); SINGING THE SNAKE (Audio tape, "Off The Page Poets", No. 1); THREE CANDLES (USA); STREET POETRY (Melbourne, Australia); A WRITER'S CHOICE LITERARY JOURNAL.



Broadcasts

My work has been broadcast and/or discussed on radio, including the BBC's World Service; ABC Radio National ("Fictions", "The Listening Room", "Radio Helicon", "Live Wire", "Late Night Live" with Phillip Adams, "The Ramona Kovel Show", "The Box Seat - Biography"); ABC Regionals (Queensland); 2BL (Sydney); 2JJJ (Sydney); Radio Skidrow (Sydney); 2RRR (Sydney); 2UE (Sydney); 2GB (Sydney); 2SER-FM (Sydney); 3LO (Melbourne); 3CR (Melbourne); 5AN (Adelaide); 5UE (Adelaide); 7NT (Launceston); 4QR (Brisbane); 2CN (Canberra); 8AL (Alice Springs); 8CCC (Alice Springs); 8DDD (Darwin);  West Coast Weekend  (KQED), San Francisco);  and  The Poets' Hour  (KUSP  (Santa Cruz, California), Sunday Roundtable (WDST, Woodstock, NY).


Television broadcasts include:

Sunday Afternoon Arts (ABC-TV with Peter Ross); Review (ABC-TV with Mark McLeod); The Midday Show (Channel Nine, with Ray Martin); Imagine (SBS-TV, with Paul McGillick); Talking Heads (SBS-TV), (with Helen Vastakopolis); The Book Show  (SBS-TV, with Denny Ahern); and Tasmania Today.

My documentaries and television scripts have been broadcast in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and throughout Southeast Asia.



Performances

I have read and performed my poetry/writing  (and the poetry/writing of others) at a variety of venues/festivals/etc around Australia, including The Melbourne Festival (1987, 89); The Adelaide Arts Festival (1978, 1990); The Sydney Festival (1979, 80, 81, 83); Carnivale (1991); Montsalvat Poetry Festival (1994); Hawthorn Town Hall readings (1994); Melbourne Writers? Fair (1994); The Country Writers' Festival, Shepparton, Victoria (1994); Australian National Word Fest, Canberra (1993); Darwin Poetry Festival (1991); Launceston Poetry Festival (1988). Other Australian venues include the Lower Melbourne Town Hall; Outpost Inn (Melbourne); Little Reata's (Melbourne); University of Melbourne; Melbourne Teachers' College; Latrobe University (Melbourne); Provincial Hotel (Melbourne); Punters Hotel (Melbourne); Crosscurrents (Ballarat, Victoria); Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education; Warrnambool City Art Gallery (Victoria); University of New South Wales; National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA); Macquarie University  (Sydney);  Charles Sturt University (Bathurst and Wagga Wagga campuses); Wagga Wagga Writers Writers; The Australian Film, Television and Radio School (Sydney); The Shore School (Sydney); MacDonald College (Sydney); NSW Writers? Centre (Sydney); National Gallery of NSW; State Library of NSW; The Wharf Theatre (Sydney); Studio Theatre, The Wharf (Sydney); The Sydney Opera House; Stables Theatre (Sydney); Belvoir Street Theatre (Sydney); Performance Space (Sydney); The Resistance Centre (Sydney); Harold Park Hotel (Sydney); Evening Star Hotel (Sydney); Avalon café (Katoomba, NSW); Poets in the Pub, Grand Hotel (Newcastle, NSW); Astor Hotel (Newcastle, NSW); University of Wollongong; Brisbane Arts' Centre; Burgmann College (Canberra); Australian Defence Force Academy (Canberra); Popeye (Adelaide); Mississippi Queen (Darwin); Araluen Arts' Centre (Alice Springs); Northern Territory University (Darwin); Hotel (Hobart) , and other venues too numerous to mention.



Overseas venues include:

Shakespeare & Co. (Paris), The Poetry Centre (London), Torriano Community Center (Kentish Town, London), Literaturhaus (Salzburg, Austria), Kunstverien Alte Schemide (Vienna, Austria), Fallon House Theatre (Columbia, California); Columbia College (Sonora, California); San Jose Poetry Centre (California); Los Arboles School (San Jose); DeAnza College (San Jose); University of California, Santa Cruz (California); Cabrillo College (Santa Cruz, California); Fort Mason Centre (San Francisco, California), Earth Space Theatre (San Francisco, California); University of California at San Diego (California); Centre for Contemporary Arts and Crafts (Santa Fe, New Mexico); College of Santa Fe;  Kleinert/James Arts Centre (Woodstock, NY); Stone Ridge Healing Arts Center (Stone Ridge, NY); Alternative Bookshop (Kingston, NY); Deep Listening Space (Kingston, NY); Anna Jarvis School (West Virginia,USA); Bellas Artes (San Miguel de Allende, Mexico), University of Sinaloa (Mazatlan, Culican, Los Mochis, Mexico), Centre del Arte (San Luis Potosi, Mexico).



Education

Bachelor of Arts (hons)  California State University at Sacramento, California. Major: English. Minors: philosophy & education. Conferred June, 1970

Diploma of education (Secondary teaching certificate), California State University at Sacramento, California. Conferred June, 1971