waking — Andrew Burke

 

Andrew Burke was born in Victoria in 1944, but raised in Western Australia. He started writing poetry at twelve under the influence of Milton et al, and went modern at fourteen after reading Eliot, Pound and Williams. Since the mid-Sixties, Burke has been published in magazines and newspapers, and has six collections of poetry published. He has also written and published short stories and criticism, and edited other authors’ work. An early career in advertising gave way to lecturing at universities in mid-life, in Australia and China. Now he has retired to write full-time.  Readers may read his daily musings at http://hispirits.blogspot.com/