Anthony Delmar
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | writer |
| Location | Strathalbyn, South Australia, Australia |
| Introduction | Came from Ireland to Australia 11 years ago. I am involved with Ink Pot, a community arts group in Mount Barker, where I help coach young actors in their roles. Ink Pot director, Jo-anne Sarre directed my latest play - a history play on the foundation of Mount Barker. It was warmly received by the community.I have written seven full length plays, all of which have had public performances - three full productions and five script-in-hand with professional actors. Before playwriting, I wrote many tourist guides in Ireland. I have been broadcast in Australia on a programme called "Poetica" where I read the book, "The Third Policeman". I was also broadcast reading the poems of Patrick Kavanagh and Michael Hartnett. Before I left Ireland I was also featured twice on Sunday Miscellany. I had poems published in the Friendly Poets' anthologies in Adelaide and in the ABC publication, "Forever Yours'. |
| Interests | theatre, music, travel, walking |
| Favorite Movies | Manon in Spring, 12 Angry Men, The Godfather, Scent Of a Woman, Schindler's List, A Man For All Seasons, Mississippi Burning, Fargo, The Red Violin, Amadeus, Slumdog Millionaire, Dead Poet's Society, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, No Country For Old Men |
| Favorite Music | Mozart concerti; Beethoven symphonies, Schubert songs & symphonies, Gluck, Haydn, Frank Sinatra, swing and trad jazz. |
| Favorite Books | Travels with Charlie, The Reader, Disgrace, Waiting For The Barbarians, Pompeii, The Old Child/The Book of Words, Visitation. Persian Fire, Brazil, I Cladius, Stalingrad, The Biggest Estate On Earth, After Words, Sing - Don't Cry, A Walk In The Woods, Rebels, Return Of A King, The Book Thief, The First Crusade, The third Policeman, Rattlebag (poetry anthology), poems of Yeats, Heaney, Hartnett, Kavanagh, Durcan, Platt, Pound, Roethke, Neruda, Nash, MacNeice, Hughes, Rilke, Frost, Auden - et al |
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