Dishwasher: Father s day poems

Sunday 13 January 2013

Father s day poems

Gary Forrester (born 3 July 1946 in the United States) is a New Zealand-Australian musician,[1][2] composer,[1][2] novelist,[3][4][5][2] poet,[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] short-story writer,[14][15] memoirist,[16] and academic. He was profiled by Random House Australia (Australian Country Music, 1991) as one of the major figures in the Australian music scene during the 1980s and 1990s,[1] and by FishHead: Wellington's Magazine as a "modern Renaissance man."[2] According to Fishhead, "in addition to publishing three novels and a book of poems, Forrester is a successful bluegrass composer and musician, an advocate for indigenous rights, and a father of six children. Oh, and don't forget his day job - law lecturer in ethics at Victoria University."[2] He lectured at the University of Melbourne from 1976-80, at the Northwestern School of Law from 1983-85, at the University of Illinois from 2000-03,[17] and at Victoria University of Wellington from 2007-2013.

Beginning in the 1980s, he represented Indian tribes in securing restoration legislation through the United States Congress;[18][19] authored a text on American Indian law;[20] and wrote numerous articles on the rights of indigenous peoples, the environment, and other legal topics.[21]

Strangers To Us All: Lawyers and Poetry (featuring biographies and works of poets and writers who have a legal background) declared that "Gary Forrester is a hard man to pigeon-hole. He has practiced law, taught law, and spent time away from the legal profession. He is a singer, musician, poet, and writer."[22]