About me

I was born on the Far North Coast of NSW and have spent most of my life in this area, primarily as an English teacher. I am currently based in Byron Bay.

I am the author of secondary school texts and have written extensively on English literature.

In the late 1990s my life went through a period of profound change, there was a stripping away of roles and ego. In the wet months of the winter of 1999 I found myself writing about these experiences in poetic form. This was the genesis of the Sharing Series.

These poems are descriptive and discursive, concerned with shifting attitudes and ideas, the universality of human and all existence and the release and beauty that lies in surrendering to that. And this awakening to awareness is what's really going on here, we are all in on this, in that we share.

The process of travelling and exploration is continuing. More recent poems have been published and broadcast here and overseas in a variety of contexts such as ABC radio and Bay FM, Joussour, an international literary journal, Kalimat, and The Cyprus Times.

There has been success in literary competitions and song writing. A more recent role has been translating Russian poetry for the Consular General.

The doors are opening in an emerging and merging in to a greater consciousness.

Let this be.

John Stuart