Lyndon Walker
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Human Resources |
| Occupation | Psychologist / Writer |
| Location | Launceston, Tasmania, Australia |
| Introduction | LYNDON WALKER was born in Townsville North Queensland. He was educated in Psychology at La Trobe University and the University of Melbourne. He graduated with a Masters in Psychoanalytic Studies from Deakin University in 2009. Lyndon practices as a Family and Individual Therapist at The Blue Door in Launceston Tasmania.. He has been published regularly in Australian literary journals over the last thirty years and occasionally overseas. He undertook a world reading tour of London, Paris, New York, Oxford and Princeton in 1994 and in 1996 was awarded the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. He writes, poetry, short stories, novels, screenplays and academic works on Psychology and Psychoanalysis. He is currently shortlisted for the ACU Inaugural Poetry Prize in Australia and the Montreal International Poetry Prize in Canada which draws entries worldwide. He is a father of one adult daughter and lives alone in a house and garden in Launceston in Tasmania, Australia. |
| Interests | Psychology, poetry, Writing, Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, People, Human Relationships. |
| Favorite Movies | The Enigma of Kasper hauser, Casablanca. |
| Favorite Music | Bob Dylan, Emmy-Lou Harris, Leonard Cohen, Cold Chisel, Blues, Robert Johnson, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, U2, The Rolling Stones, Daniel Lanois, Bruce Springsteen. |
| Favorite Books | John Berger : ONCE IN EUROPA ; WAYS OF SEEING Sam Shepard : MOTEL CHRONICLES Richard Ford : WILDLIFE; ROCK SPRINGS; CANADA. Joan Didion : THE WHITE ALBUM Raymond Carver : THE STORIES OF RAYMOND CARVER; ALL OF US; ELEPHANT; ULTRAMARINE ;A NEW PATH TO THE WATERFALL Virginia Woolf : A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN Richard Brautigan : TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA Sylvia Plath : LETTERS HOME ; THE BELL JAR ; ARIEL (Poems) Michael Ondaatje : COMING THROUGH SLAUGHTER Janet Malcolm : PSYCHOANALYSIS THE IMPOSSIBLE PROFESSION Gabriel Garcia Marquez : ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE Turgenev : FIRST LOVE Janet Lewis : THE WIFE OF MARTIN GUERRE Julian Barnes : FLAUBERT'S PARROT; A SENSE OF AN ENDING Ai (Florenec Anthony) : CRUELTY (Poems) James Agee & Walker Evans : LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN Virginia Axline : DIBS: IN SEARCH OF SELF T.S.Eliot : SELECTED POEMS Norman Maclean : A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT Jeanette Winterson : THE PASSION; WHY BE HAPPY WHEN YOU COULD BE NORMAL? Irving Yalom : LOVE’S EXECUTIONER AND OTHER TALES OF PSYCHOTHERAPY James Joyce : ULYSSES Drusilla Modjeska : POPPY Robert Adamson : WHERE I COME FROM; THE GOLDEN BIRD. Melanie Klein : LOVE, GUILT AND REPARATION Michael Dransfield : THE INSPECTOR OF TIDES; STREETS OF THE LONG VOYAGE Pablo Neruda : SELECTED POEMS Adrrienne Rich : A WILD PATIENCE HAS TAKEN ME THIS FAR Neville Symington : THE ANALYTIC EXPERIENCE : LECTURES FROM THE TAVISTOCK Raymond Carver & Tom Jenks (Eds) : AMERICAN SHORT STORY MASTERPIECES. Ted Hughes : BIRTHDAY LETTERS Anne Michaels : FUGITIVE PIECES Anne Carson : THE BEAUTY OF THE HUSBAND; MEN IN THE OFF HOURS; AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED; or anything else written by this extraordinary intelligence. Marguritte Duras : THE LOVER Daphne Marlatt : SALVAGE; THE GIVEN Karen Solie : SHORT HAUL ENGINE Lyndon Walker: SO MANY RIVERS, SO MUCH TO LEARN; Cate Kennedy : LIKE A HOUSE ON FIRE; THE TASTE OF RIVER WATER Emily Ballou: THE DARWIN POEMS. |