Mark d'Arbon Mark d'Arbon i(7558801 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon Matters of Life and Death Mark d'Arbon , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2023 27233739 2023 selected work poetry

'Mark d’Arbon is a retired academic who has spent the greater part of his adult life teaching in a wide range of settings, including a couple of years in Papua New Guinea. He has been writing poetry for many of those forty years, having poems published in a variety of anthologies. The first collection of his own poems was published in 2018, titled Veranda People. This second collection is more reflective and has as its core theme aspects of life and the impact of death, although there is a sufficiently eclectic spread of poems not to make this book so depressing that you have to put it down in order to have a good cry.' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon Monstrology Mark d'Arbon , Barbara D'Arbon , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2021 23742395 2021 selected work poetry
1 What Goes Around... i "The seventies was my decade of protest", Mark d'Arbon , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: I Protest! Poems of Dissent 2020; (p. 112)
1 Perspectives i "At dawn, there is a softness to the mountains;", Mark d'Arbon , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mountain Secrets 2019; (p. 181)
1 y separately published work icon Veranda People Mark d'Arbon , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2018 14043225 2018 selected work poetry

'For me, poetry is observational and emerges from personal experience. This book contains a selection of poems that I have written over the years - a kind of distillation of things I have seen that have moved me, interspersed with poems that I simply like. You may notice that a significant number of the poems are to do with various aspects of the ocean and the coast. That's because I am intimately connected to it; and although my bones are beginning to creak, I still surf and am endlessly fascinated by the changeability of the ocean and the exquisite complexity of the interaction between waves, rocks and sand. I hope you enjoy these poems.' (Publication summary)
1 On Painting the Deck i "I love boats", Mark d'Arbon , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Ear to Earth : An Anthology of Australian Poetry 2017 2017; (p. 86)
1 Morning Tea i "Dressed to the nines", Mark d'Arbon , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Ear to Earth : An Anthology of Australian Poetry 2017 2017; (p. 78)
1 y separately published work icon Ear to Earth : An Anthology of Australian Poetry 2017 Vema Rieschild (editor), Oriel Parker (editor), Lois Clendining (editor), Mark d'Arbon (editor), Gosford : Central Coast Poets Inc. , 2017 12366689 2017 anthology poetry

'Linger over the words and voices of poets as they feather out phrases to lift us into the musicality and wonderment of verse. The love and lyricism of language is deeply embedded in the vagaries and vignettes of life. Imagination floats on the wings of poetry...' (Oriel Parker)
1 Life as Art Mark d'Arbon , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Seeking the Sun : Australian Poetry 2012 2012; (p. 112)
1 Oh the Pallidity! Mark d'Arbon , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Seeking the Sun : Australian Poetry 2012 2012; (p. 91)
1 Storm Mark d'Arbon , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: Seeking the Sun : Australian Poetry 2012 2012; (p. 61)
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