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PixPress Home Page	PixelPress is a vehicle for small print & web publishing projects which appeal to me. My first project, the book of poetry, Not A Proper Shop, has been well received. Submissions from other writers may be invited from time to time.   Not a Proper Shop was published on 1st December, 1997, and is available from booksellers for $12.95. It may be ordered direct by cheque, money or mail order from my surface mail address for $10.00, post paid. "Bloody delightful - full of life and characters and scenery and history - with delightful language that is always accurate for the subject at hand." Andrew Burke, poet and critic. "Walter Vivian's Not A Proper Shop, (Pixel Press, $12.95) is another local product. It is a heart- felt collection disproving the witticism that nostalgia is not what it used to be.His poems on, among other subjects, childhood, the passing landmarks of Perth and its hinterland, demonstrate that nostalgia is very much alive. And in Vivian's work it is a constructive frame of mind. While his poems sometimes evoke a sense of the loss of something genuinely valuable, they are as often celebrations of some of life's most important references -- family and humour, love, the resonances of history in daily living and the beauty of the natural world." Rod Moran in neopoetica, big weekend books, Saturday February 14,1998. Life is a potted journey of minutiae among the mega events and WA poet Walter Vivian in his anthology, Not a Proper Shop, takes his readers on a gentle, sometimes sentimental, ride through boyhood to burgeoning manhood. And as interests of the two age groups differ markedly, so to does the poetry. From simple observations of a young boy on a shopping expedition to the yarn shop with his gran in the title poem, where he waits as patiently as a young boy can to get to the proper shop - "that sold things to eat, and no yarns", to the observing eye and stirring hormones of a young adult. In Swan River By Night, Vivian prods memories and evokes a pre-war Perth that still resonates in our community. While trying to capture a time and a way of thinking which we think has passed, Vivian's work highlights the strong common thread. Children, especially little boys, still take inordinate interest and delight with their body parts and countless backyards ring with the sound of pirates and Buck Rogers as in Peppercorn Tree - only the names have changed in the interest of progress.And I don't think anyone has told teenagers that there's nothing new under the sun. As slice of local social history, this anthology offers a peek through the half-drawn blinds on characters and situations which still brim with laughter. Jan Hallam in The Sunday Times, 24 May 1998.
Sappho's Delight, which includes poetry with harder edge, was published 1st April, 1999, and launched on 2nd May, 1999 at Tom Collins Writers Centre. Reviews may be available soon!!!! It may be ordered direct by cheque, money or mail order from my surface mail address for $10.00, post paid, or through booksellers at $12.95.
Walter Vivian's HomePage	Background Experience I'm a teacher, artist, writer & beach bum. I enjoy writing, drawing, fishing, swimming, walking, cooking and computer wrangling with my fifth Macintosh since the 1985 original 128K. In Education: Graduate of University of Western Australian & Teachers College (Edith Cowan University) and holder of several fellowships. Holder travelling fellowship EDWA 1979, studying in US and UK. 30 years as enthusiastic committee sitter, including 2 state presidencies. 35 years teacher and principal of primary & district high schools. In Art: 2 solo exhibitions & participant in several group exhibitions. Work has been purchased for private collections, UWA & ECU. Completed master class in drawing at the Claremont School of Arts, with distinction. In Writing: Published more than 100 articles, numerous letters and two books of poetry. As Beach bum: 30 years as owner skipper of seagoing diesel launches. Helped to build 7 craft, shaped oars, sewed sails, spliced many cables, sailed many craft and single-oar sculled many dinghies. Swimming instructor for one full summer and several part seasons. Enthusiastic beach fisherman, angler, and loitering rinser of family jewels. Family Father, the late John Vivian, descended from Vivians of Cornwall and Shiels of Ireland. Mother, Nell, descended from Laundons and Taylors of Leicestershire. Married June Airey, 1951, descended from Aireys of England, Kilgours of Scotland and Bothas & de Beers of South Africa. Son, Geoffrey Vivian, ex Catherine Montigny, and granddaughter, Delphine Montigny-Vivian. Daughter, Katrina Tap, m Mark Tap of Oak Flats in New South Wales, and new grandson, William Benjamin Tap and granddaughter, Katrina Eleanor Rose Tap. Brothers, Ronald Arthur of North Yunderup & the late Keith Edward of Wellard. Other close connections:- Millers, Hartrees and Johnsons; Laundons, Fielders & Bowens; Gracies, Engelbrechts, Bulls, Barclays, Denhams,
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Alan Clay's http://www.artmedia.com.au - building a community of interest in contemporary Australian & New Zealand literary & performing arts has very useful information on e-publishing and news about writers and writing with emphasis on Australia and new Zealand.

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Numbat Poetry Journal.

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