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Oliver's Unposted, Autumn Leaves-A Memoir In Essays, begins with his childhood growing up in the hilly suburb of Brooklyn-west, Wellington, New Zealand, in the 50s and 60s. He attended St. Bernard's Primary School, Brooklyn, then Marist Brothers, Newtown, and finally, St. Patrick's College, Cambridge Terrace. This period is extensively covered, including his post-schooldays, right through to the close of the 60s, in a Wellington that no longer exists, captured in the essays Talk, Chalk And Asphalt Days, 'A Big Fruity Guy ...', A Small Matter Of Demolition, A Nostalgia For Books, and Gnosis, A Spark. There are essays on travel. One Day in the Life of Richard Ramos recalls San Francisco in 1979, and One Day In the Life of Vicki Viidikas covers Sydney from the mid to late 80s. Gulls Dreaming at the Mast, and The River Runs Backwards considers Irish cultural history as it relates to the life and times of Oliver's great grandfather, Thomas McCormack, who emigrated from Ireland to Australia, and later as a young man, sailed from Melbourne aboard the S.S. Ringarooma to Port Chalmers, Dunedin, in 1877. Unposted, Autumn Leaves counterpoints much that can be found in his epic poem, Intercolonial (2013) which 'reaffirms Oliver's status as our leading transtasman poet.'

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Stephen Oliver-Australasian poet and author of twenty one volumes of poetry. Travelled extensively. Signed on with the radio ship The Voice of Peace 1540 kHz broadcasting in the Mediterranean out of Jaffa, Israel in the late '70s. Free-lanced in Australia/New Zealand as production voice, narrator, newsreader, radio producer, columnist, copy and feature writer, etc. Lived in Australia for 20 years. Currently living in NZ. He has published widely in international literary journals. Regular contributor of creative nonfiction and poems to Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature. Poems translated into German, Spanish, Chinese, and Russian. Represented most recently in the following: Writing To The Wire Anthology, edited by Dan Disney and Kit Kelen, University of Western Australia Publishing, 2016; The Australian Prose Poem Anthology, edited by Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington, Melbourne University Press (2020). His latest poetry volumes: Heroides/15 Sonnets, Puriri Press, Auckland 2020; The Song Of Globule/80 Sonnets, Greywacke Press, Canberra, 2020.

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