biography
rob walker is a South Australian writer and educator. He teaches music and drama in a state primary school in the southern metropolitan area of Adelaide and lives on a small farm in the Adelaide Hills.
rob's poetry (over 300 works) has mostly been disseminated by way of the web: cordite poetry review, malleable jangle, Australian Reader, OutOfOrder!!, stylus poetry journal, Famous Reporter, Numbat / Poetry DownUnder, bluepepper, Text, Thylazine, Picture and Word, Friendly Street Poets , wordfire, Aust Poetic Society, Wild Grapes and The Curious Record (AUS); Mascara (AUS/ASIA); NzpoetsOnline, Southern Ocean Review, evasion (NZ); Limestone, Snakeskin, Comrades ezine (UK); IRELingus, electric acorn (Ireland); The Oracular Tree, Poets4Peace, nasty, Tryst, Plum Ruby Review, Atomic Petals, Indie Journal, The Poets Porch, Pogonip & Sidereality (US) The Breath (CANADA) and Poetas del Mundo (WORLD.)
rob's "print-published" works include:
Unruly sun (Friendly Street Poetry Reader # 31) ed. Erica Jolly & Avalanche (aka Ivan G Rehorek),
ISBN 978 1 86254 742 1 AUS, 2007
Al Mannarah (Independent Iraqi Newspaper, June 17, 2006)
Blue Giraffe 3 (Blue Giraffe Press, Tas, AUS) ISSN: 1832-6277
ArtState #14 (ArtsSA, Adelaide, AUS)
Woorilla (Vol 15 No 2, 2006. ACT, AUS) ISSN 2038-9725
Blast Magazine (ed. Ann Nugent, #3, March 2006)
Best Australian Poems 2005 (ed. Les Murray, Black Inc, 2005)
fourW sixteen (Booranga, Charles Sturt University, 2005)
UNO: A poetry anthology (Verian Thomas, UK, 2001)
Comrades Print (Comrades Press, UK, May 2003)
Taj Mahal Review (CyberWit, INDIA, Dec, 2006)
The Curious Record (AUS, Feb 2002, Feb 2003) ISSN: 1446-0505
Southern Ocean Review #29 (NZ Book Co., Nov 2003)
Another Universe: Friendly Street Poetry Reader # 28 Ed. Kate Deller-Evans & Steve Evans, AUS, 2004)
Quadrant (AUS, No. 423, Jan / Feb, 2006)
Blue Dog: Australian Poetry Vol 3, No 5 (AUS)
Positive Words (June 2004, AUS)
staples zine (#8, March 2007, AUS)
Famous Reporter #31 & #33 (Nov 2005,Jul, 2006 AUS)
poems in the Australian Education Union Journal (SA), 2004-2006
New England Review #21 (March, 2005, AUS)
Blur: Friendly Street Reader #29 Ed. Amelia Walker & Shen, Wakefield Press, March, 2005 (AUS).
His collection sparrow in an airport appeared in New Poets Ten, Friendly Street/ Wakefield Press, March 2005 (AUS).
His full collection micromacro (winner of the City of Onkaparinga 2006 Poetry Unhinged Single Poet Collection) was published by Seaview Press, September, 2006.
His chapbook collection phobiaphobia (poems of fear and anxiety) was published by PicaroPress, August, 2007.
His work has also been read on ABC Radio National's poeticA and The Deep End, 101.5 FM Radio Adelaide's Writers' Radio, Internet Voices Radio (based in Michigan, US) and heard on the spoken-word/ music CD Going Down Swinging #23, 2006.
rob walker has performed his work at wordfire, Lee Marvin, animate quarterly, staples, poetry unhinged, poetry slams, Adelaide Festival Fringe, Crafers Inn, Coriole Winery and reads regularly at Adelaide's Friendly Street Poets. His poem dunes, perlubie beach inspired dunes, a music composition for string quartet by Belinda Gehlert. rob and Zephyr Quartet premiered this work at Nexus Cabaret, The Lion Arts Centre, Adelaide, Oct 26th, 2007.
rob's first poetry collection in print (along with fellow Adelaide New Poets Libby Angel and Robert Bloomfield) was released by Friendly Street and Wakefield Press in March 2005.
rob also co-edited (with Louise Nicholas) Friendly Street's Annual Anthology "THIRTY" (released at the Adelaide Writers' Festival in March 2006.)
His first full-length poetry collection "micromacro"(Seaview Press) was launched on September 30, 2006.
rob is a proud member of
• Friendly Street Poets
• South Australian Writers' Centre
• Australian Education Union
• Poetas del Mundos (Poets of the World)
• World Poets Society
rob moved to Japan on Jan 1st, 2008.