John Foulcher
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Education
He graduated from Macquarie University with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours and a Diploma of Education. He has been a teacher in NSW and the ACT.Literary career
His work has been widely anthologised and published in national newspapers and journals including The Age, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Bulletin, Quadrant, Heat, Poetry Australia, Meanjin and the New Oxford Book of Australian VerseNew Oxford Book of Australian Verse
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From 1986 to 1994 his poetry was set for study on the NSW Higher School Certificate syllabus. He has been the poetry editor of both The Canberra Times and the Voices, the magazine of the National Library. In 2010, he was awarded a writer in residency in Paris at the Cité Internationale des Arts by the Literature Board of the Australia Council.
Awards
- Australia Council Residency at the Keesing Studio, Paris 2010-11
- Australia Council Grant for Established Writers, 2003
- Australia Council Young Writer's Fellowship, 1980
- Australia Council General Writing Grant, 1977
- ACT Book of the Year Award, 1994: winner for New and Selected Poems
- National Library Poetry Competition, 1988: joint winner for 'Kosciusko in Summer'
Works
- Light Pressure (Angus & Robertson 1983)
- Pictures from the War (Angus & Robertson 1987)
- Paper Weight (Angus & Robertson 1991)
- New and Selected Poems (Angus & Robertson 1993)
- The Honeymoon Snaps (Angus & Robertson 1996)
- Convertible (Ginninderra Press 2000)
- The Learning Curve (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2002)
- What on Earth Possessed You (Halstead Press 2008)