Dr June Perkins is a Brisbane-based poet, blogger and children’s author, of Indigenous Papua New Guinean and Australian background, raised in Tasmania by Baha’i parents. She utilizes multiarts and multicultural stories to inspire an enriched sense of belonging and compassion in those who encounter her work.
She was recently invited to share Magic Fish Dreaming at the Asia Pacific Triennial Pacific, Summer Program 2019 and became a member of Mana Pasifika research Institute. She maintains an interest and dedication to promoting diversity in the Australian literary landscape. Her first children’s book was the award-winning poetry collection, Magic Fish Dreaming (2016) illustrated by Helene Magisson.
Profiles
You can find interviews here:
Interview with Ali Stegert on Spilling Ink
Five Fantastic Facts with the Young Authors Academy
Member of the following groups or directories.
You can find June on Twitter Facebook Vimeo Pinterest
She is a regular photographic contributor to Nineteen Months.
Website June Perkins
I am very pleased I stumbled upon your blog today! I am enjoying the visual poems, and the range of mediums you use. Inspiring work 🙂
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Thanks Mim. The beauty of the cyberworld is finding connections of place, art, memory. I love working across media – each inspiring the other. I began writing poems as a young girl in Tasmania encouraged by teachers and the Tasmanian poetry festival.
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It is indeed! It is lovely meeting other poet souls 🙂 I too am also undertaking the objective of making a poetry book, I look forward to seeing yours in print 🙂
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Thanks – yes been taking my time but a number of special books on their way.
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