David Brooks Biography
David Gordon Brooks is an Australian author.
He graduated from the Australian National University in 1974. He married Alison Summers in 1975. Brooks and Summers then studied abroad and received their M.A. degrees from the University of Toronto. Brooks completed his Ph.D from the University of Toronto after returning to Australia in 1981 while teaching at the Royal Military College, Duntroon located in Canberra. In 1982 he began teaching at the University of Western Australia in Perth, where he met the poet Nicolette Stasko, who became his partner for the next twenty years. In 1986 he returned to the Australian National University as a lecturer, a post he held for the next four years. Brooks currently is an associate professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney. He married the Slovenian translator and photographer Teja Pribac in 2005.
He is a co-editor, along with Elizabeth McMahon, for Southerly, Australia's oldest literary magazine.
His novel, The Fern Tattoo, was shortlisted for the 2008 Miles Franklin Award.
He is a vegan.
Early
on the way to a meeting at Batemans
I glimpse a lyrebird
on the edge of the Mt Agony road
...
I dreamt I was a tree
covered with strange fruit.
Well, no, I lie:
there was no dream,
...
My father spent most of his adult life
working for the Commonwealth Public Service, shunting files
from one end of his long desk to the other.
When he died he left half-written
...
Leaving the town in the mountains
after seven years’ exile from his native province
the old poet meets a woman one third his age,
the most beautiful he has ever seen in this place.
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