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Tuesday, 22 June 2010

The Westerly Centre is pleased to announce the re-appointment of an Honorary Research Associate with the Westerly Centre in the School of Social and Cultural Studies within the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

John Mateer has published books of poems in Australia and overseas, and a prose travelogue about Indonesia. He has been writer-in-residence in Kyoto, Beijing, Coimbra, Medan and at Ledig House, New York. In 2006 he was a participant at the Iowa International Writing Program.

He has given readings in many countries, most recently in Austria at Schloss Leopoldskron/Salzburg Global Seminar as well as at PEN International's Free the Word festival in London. His latest books are Ex-white/Einmal-Weiss: South African Poems (Klagenfurt: Sisyphus, 2009), The West: Australian Poems 1989-2009 (Fremantle Press, 2010) and Southern Barbarians (Sydney: Giramondo and Lisbon: T41, forthcoming). Please visit Fremantle Press for further information on this forthcoming publication.

This appointment will be for a period of 12 months from 1 May 2011 to 30 April 2012.

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