rob walker is a South Australian writer and educator who divides his time between a small farm in the Adelaide Hills (where he also teaches music, drama and performing arts) and Himeji, Japan where he teaches English in a Senior High School.
rob’s first poetry collection in print 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.
rob also co-edited (with Louise Nicholas) Friendly Street’s Annual Anthology “THIRTY” (released at the Adelaide Writers’ Festival in March 2006.)
rob’s other 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); Cortland Poetry Review, 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:
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).
FRIENDLY STREET POETRY READER # 28
“Another Universe” (Ed. Kate Deller-Evans & Steve Evans, AUS,2004
“On first looking into Chapman’s fritz.”
FRIENDLY STREET POETRY READER # 29
(Ed. Amelia Walker & Shen, AUS,March 2005
Jordy’s balloons
Speech of parts
FRIENDLY STREET POETRY READER # 31
Unruly sun
Ed. Erica Jolly & Avalanche (aka Ivan G Rehorek),
Friendly Street Poets / Wakefield Press
ISBN 978 1 86254 742 1
AUS, 2007
Cats in tacks. Cat sin tax. Cat syntax.
FRIENDLY STREET POETRY READER # 32
Rewired
(ed. Gaetano Aiello & Maggie Emmett)
Friendly Street Poets / Wakefield Press
ISBN 978 1 86254 790 2
AUS, 2008
Automatonophobia and Isaac the Unchosen
FRIENDLY STREET POETRY READER # 33
Catch Fire
(ed. Aidan Coleman & Juliet Paine.)
Friendly Street Poets / Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781862548428
AUS, 2009
Danny in Detention and The Dust of Rhajastan
FRIENDLY STREET POETRY READER # 34
After the Race
(ed. Janine Baker & A. M. Sladdin)
Friendly Street Poets / Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781862548831
AUS, 2010
Transcendence
FRIENDLY STREET POETRY READER # 35
Sorcerers and Soothsayers
(ed. John Pfitzner &
Friendly Street Poets / Wakefield Press
ISBN
AUS, 2011
A better world
Lines written in Himeji, 2008
EARTHLY MATTERS
Biology & Geology
Science Made Marvellous for National Science Week 2010
(ed. Brook Emery and Victoria Haritos)
The Poets Union Inc NSW 2010 ISBN 978-0- 9805420-2-8.
slater
GOING DOWN SWINGING #27 (book)
(Nov, 2008)
Yamamoto-sensei snaps
His work has also been read on ABC Radio National’s poeticA and The Deep End, 101.5 FM Radio Adelaide’s Writers’ Radio and Poets on Air, Internet Voices Radio (based in Michigan, US), SYN FM Melbourne 90.7 FM, Triple R Melbourne102.7 FM
and heard on the spoken-word/ music CD Going Down Swinging #23, 2006 and GoingDownSwinging double-CD #25, 2007.
He works with Jazz-funk ensemble Max_Mo. http://www.myspace.com/max-mo
and has had work remixed by a number of other artists @ ccMixter.
rob walker has performed his work at Higher Ground, wordfire, Lee Marvin, animate quarterly, staples, poetry unhinged, poetry slams, Adelaide Festival Fringe, Crafers Inn, Coriole, Langmeil and Leconfield Wineries 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 is a proud member of
• South Australian Writers’ Centre
• Poetas del Mundos (Poets of the World)