Pot Luck Poetry – Featured Artist Ross Clark

Ross CLARK’s poetry and haiku has appeared in periodicals (Australian and overseas), in his own volumes (7 books and 3 chapbooks), and in performance, for half a century. He has been won a number of national poetry awards (eg Peter Porter Poetry Prize, National Jazz Writing Award), been awarded a Centenary of Federation Medal, and toured his work extensively in eastern Australia, plus Texas (USA) and Japan.

In an earlier life he earned income from secondary teaching, tertiary teaching, and editing, and a range of micro-jobs. Currently he is writing, performing and recording songs, solo or in bands: his 3rd CD is released later this year. His “hit” poems are about a hangover, a PTSD veteran, and a herd of Jersey cows. Who knew?