Mike Greenacre
| Name | Mike Greenacre |
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| Email Address | poetmgreenacre@hotmail.co.uk |
| Profession | Teacher |
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| Country | Australia |
| State | WA |
| Suburb | Murdoch 6150 |
| Address | 18 Dunstan Place |
| Website | http://www.vividpublishing.com.au/beaconbreaker |
| Phone | 93108029 or mobile: 0404141958 |
| Biography | Mike Greenacre is a Western Australian poet who has had his poems published in literary journals and anthologies in Australia and overseas. He developed an interest in writing when a student at Applecross High School. Mike learned to play the guitar in High School and gained inspiration to write both through reading texts and listening to the lyrics of rock songs. Mike studied at Murdoch University and completed two teaching degrees. After graduating, he began writing more seriously and attended some writing groups run by Elizabeth Jolley at the Fremantle Arts Centre. He had his first poems published in journals in these years. Mike did his country teaching service in Kununurra and Norseman and met his wife, Tracy, while teaching in Rockingham. They have a son, Jonathan (22) and a daughter, Jaime (19). Mike has worked at a number of Perth metropolitan primary schools and some of his students have won prizes in ‘The Young Writer’s Contest’. He has been teaching Music and Performing Arts in the last two years at Success Primary School. Mike published his first collection of poetry, Kimberley Man, in 2002. His latest poetry collection,Beacon Breaker, was published in June 2010. Mike attended the 'Dear Dad' Poetry Anthology launch at The Wheeler Centre in The State Library of Victoria with his father on 24th August 2010. |
| Publication History | I have had my poems published in a variety of Australian and overseas literary journals and anthologies since 1983: Patterns, Quadrant,Fremantle Arts Review,Westerly,Rubicon 'New Poems from Australia'1987 (edited by Grace Perry), Artlook,Luna,Southerly,Poetry Monash,Northern Perspective, Southern Review, Poetry Australia,Phoenx Review,SideWaLK,Wordhord:A Critical Anthology of Western Australian Poetry 1989 (edited by Dennis Haskell & Hilary Fraser) Mattoid,Coppertales,Centoria,Moving Out Moving On 'Poems of Dislocation'1999(edited by Helen Annand),Four W,Small Packages,Brave New Word, Thirst (Special Edition for the FAW WA 2009), Windmills,Southland,winterSPIN,The Gippsland Writer,Muse,P76,Larrikin, Edgeways, Pendulum, Micropress Oz,Writing,Western Teacher, Norseman Today and Toodyay Herald. Some of these poems have been read on Matthew Dean’s ‘Art Collage’ on 100FM and Jenny Pretty’s ‘Antipodean Experience’ Radio Fremantle 107.9FM. Mike has pblished two collections of his poetry: 'Kimberley Man (2002) and 'Beacon Breaker (2010). From 'Beacon Breaker': His poem ‘Applecross Jetty’ was read at The State Library Theatre as part of the Swan River Stories Project by Battye Fellow Sue Graham-Taylor, in October 2008. His poem ‘Somewhere Not Gone’ was short listed for the F.A.W. (WA) 2008 Anthology ‘Lines In The Sand’. His poem 'Father's Day' was selected for publication in the Dear Dad National Anthology - Poems by Australians about Fathers - in August 2010. |