Mark O'Connor

Mark O'Connor "is a committed environmentalist and strongly supports Sustainable Population Australia (SPA)."

Mark "is a professional poet with a special interest in the natural environment. He has published several books of poetry on regions of Australia such as the Great Barrier Reef and the Blue Mountains, often collaborating with renowned nature photographers...

"In 1999 he was appointed H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellow at the Australian National University, and in 2000 he was given a grant from the Australia Council to write poetry about the 2000 Olympic Games. He is also the editor of the much re-printed Oxford anthology Two Centuries of Australian Poetry.

"In addition to his own poetry, Mark is now translating Shakespearean verse into modern English. He is also the inventor and patent holder for the Pro-NOUNCE-it software for showing the pronunciation of English words. Mark lives with his wife Jan in Canberra Australia, where he pursues interests in grafting and propagating unusual fruit trees and occasionally practices as a marriage celebrant."

Publications

 * Mark O'Connor, This Tired Brown Land (Duffy and Snellgrove, 1998). (NSW Premier Bob Carr (a noted bibliophile) described the book as "the most important Australian book of recent years".)
 * Mark O'Connor and William Lines, Overloading Australia: How Governments and Media Dither and Deny on Population (Envirobook Sydney, 2008).

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * Bob Birrell