John Forbes, 1990
Photo by John Tranter
John Forbes Contents page
John Forbes (1950–98) was born in Melbourne and grew up in New Guinea and Malaya and later lived in Sydney and Melbourne. He began to train for the priesthood, abandoned that for university study, and wrote an MA thesis on Frank O’Hara, which he never quite finished. He worked at various jobs including furniture removing, and later taught creative writing. His first book was Tropical Skiing (1976), and Brandl and Schlesinger published a posthumous Collected Poems in 2001. At the age of 47 he suffered a heart attack and died at his home in Melbourne.
Material available on this site:
John Tranter’s 1998 review of Damaged Glamour, by John Forbes. This review was first published in the Sydney Morning Herald on Saturday 13 June 1998. It is about four printed pages long.
Philip Mead: John Forbes 1950–98, an obituary article, 2,000 words or about six printed pages long (February 1998)
Ken Bolton: The Poetry of John Forbes, an introduction (December 2004). This piece is 10,000 words or about twenty printed pages long. It first appeared in Thylazine magazine.
Pam Brown: Petersham Days (about John Forbes) on Pam Brown’s pages on this site
Material available Offsite:
Issue 3 of Jacket magazine is dedicated to him and features six poems by John Forbes, and poems, reviews and memoirs by reviewers and friends.
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