John Foulcher | |
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 John Foulcher, 2011 | |
| Born | 7 December 1952 |
| Occupation(s) | Poet and teacher |
| Known for | Poetry |
| Website | http://johnfoulcher.com/ |
John Foulcher (born 7 December 1952) is an Australian poet and teacher. [1]
John Foulcher | |
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| John Foulcher, 2011 | |
| Born | 7 December 1952 |
| Occupation(s) | Poet and teacher |
| Known for | Poetry |
| Website | http://johnfoulcher.com/ |
John Foulcher (born 7 December 1952) is an Australian poet and teacher. [1]
Foulcher graduated from Macquarie University with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours and a Diploma of Education. He has been a teacher in New South Wales, Victoria, Australian Capital Territory and taught at Radford College [2] until 2011 followed by Burgmann Anglican School in the Canberra suburb of Gungahlin until retiring in June 2016.
His work has been widely anthologised and published in national newspapers and journals including The Age, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Bulletin, Quadrant, Heat, Poetry Australia, Meanjin and the New Oxford Book of Australian Verse.
From 1986 to 1994, his poetry was set for study on the New South Wales Higher School Certificate syllabus. [3] He has been the poetry editor of both The Canberra Times[ citation needed ] and the Voices, the magazine of the National Library. In 2010, he was awarded a writer in residency in Paris at the Cité internationale des arts [4] by the Literature Board of the Australia Council.
In 2012, he joined forces with the Sydney-based poetry imprint Pitt Street Poetry who republished his first collection from 1983 Light Pressure in a pocket format, and followed up with his new book of poetry The Sunset Assumption written during his Australia Council residency in Paris. This new book was published as an e-book, a paperback and a signed and numbered limited hardbound collector's edition with illustrations by Swiss artist Judit Villiger.
'Foulcher's The Sunset Assumption confirms his status as a thoughtful, melodious poet, one of seriously investigated religious beliefs, one morally attuned to the need for and the compromises of such beliefs.' Peter Pierce review in The Canberra Times [8]
'Lovely in its poetic balance, The Sunset Assumption is well-crafted with its deep and subtle ‘voice’ and a unique imagination. I fell in love with this book because there is so much questioning and rich beauty within it.' Robyn Rowland in Cordite Poetry Review [9]
'Foulcher has always been a subtle (and non-dogmatic) religious poet. Even to an agnostic or atheist the poems here will almost certainly evoke a powerful sense of strangeness, of something quite-conceivably real but not reducible to words' Geoff Page reviews The Sunset Assumption in Southerly (journal) [10]
'...technically skilled and careful, in the service of precise notations of scenes from the poet's emotional life.' Commentary on Light Pressure in the Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry [11]
'Foulcher is not a poet of dramatic gestures or strident convictions; rather, he is a poet of implications, implications that come from closely observed and imaginatively recreated particulars; ones that readers will almost certainly recognise as part of their own lives'. Geoff Page (ed) A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Australian Poetry UQP 1995. [12]
'Simple, direct and convincing, Foulcher's poetry reflects common human experiences - joy in the present, regret for the errors and omissions of the past and faith, mixed with a dash of apprehension, for the future'. Wilde, Hooton and Andrews (eds) The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature OUP 1995 [13]
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