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by Mike Ladd

71 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2000

About the author

At the age of seventeen, Mike Ladd began reading his poetry at Adelaide’s renowned Friendly Street and his poems started appearing in local and national publications. His first book 'The Crack in the Crib' was published in 1984 followed by eight collections of poetry and prose. Mike was the editor of ABC Radio National’s highly respected 'Poetica', which ran for eighteen years. He currently works for Radio National’s features and documentary unit, and he and his partner Cathy Brooks have been running projects that put poems on street signs as public art.

Mike is a poetry mentor, judge, and a reviewer. Over the past two decades he has given poetry workshops and masterclasses in every state and territory of Australia.