Graeme Hetherington

Poems on this web site

1. After three works by Lloyd Rees
2. Blossom
3. For Gwen Harwood
4. Port Arthur
5. Two Teachers
6. Winter sounding
7. West Coast, Tasmania (8)
8. Europe (1)

" ... Graeme Hetherington takes hinterland Tasmania, with its hellish past of floggings, cannibalism, killings, and weaves into this the pattern of his own experience, his exposure to cruelty, his friendship with James McAuley, his exile in foreign lands, his intimations into Christianity and Christian art.' (From the cover of his most recent book, Life Given)

Graeme Hetherington is an Australian poet who divides his time between Europe and Australia.

Born in Latrobe, Graeme Hetherington grew up in the mining towns on the remote west coast of Tasmania.

After attending Launceston Grammar School, he studied at the University of Tasmania, and became one of the youngest lecturers to be appointed there - he taught Classics until his retirement in the mid-80s. Many younger Tasmanian poets were taught by Graeme Hetherington, among them Stephen Edgar.

Graeme has spent many years travelling in Europe, and lived in Greece for several years.

NEW! A Tasmanian Paradise Lost
has been launched in July 2003. For sales and distiribution information, contact the publisher, Walleah Press.

The Write Stuff is reliably informed that he has three new collections of poetry waiting in the wings ...

 

Books by Graeme Hetherington

Life Given (2002) Indigo/Ginninderra Press.

In the Shadow of Van Diemen's Land (1999) Cornford Press.

Remote Corners (1986) Twelvetrees Publishing.

A Tasmanian Paradise Lost (2003) Walleah Press, PO Box 368 North Hobart, Tasmania 7002.