Dr Bryan Humphrey
My life exemplifies the truth that if you retire from full time work you just become busier.
After leaving a career in education and management I immediately began to explore the latent desire to write
which the pressures of work had delayed. Poetry, short stories and memoir began to flow.
Ideas and themes came from my family, passion for bike riding, bush walking, interest in the environment and social justice.
I am currently studying creative writing at Deakin University and am enjoying the experience immensely.
Perhaps I will finish and add another degree to a collection that includes a PhD, Masters, Honours Degree,
and a post-graduate qualification in television production.
I am currently employed at Deakin University teaching ethics and criminology on a part time basis.
I enjoy my active membership of a weekly writing group based in Queenscliffe (Good Neighbours),
Deakin Literary Society, Geelong Writers (Committee Member), Australian Poetry Centre, Victorian Writers’ Centre,
Melbourne Poets’ Union and the Poets’ Union (Sydney based).
I am working towards publication of my first collection of poems in the near future.
I have a modest publication record which it is building slowly. It includes:
John Humphrey – a personal Reflection,
Winner of Ipswich Poetry Competition Open Prize 2000 and published Queensland Times Newspaper 2000
Last Cat Leaves, Speed Poets, Zine, Vol. 6, No 2, 2007
Transition, in Early Morning, Geelong Writers’ Anthology, 2008
Tartan Tie, Speed Poets, Zine, Vol. 8, No 3, 2009
Moreton Island Reflections, in Australian Poetry Centre, Poetry Lab, Woollongong, Anthology, 2009 (forthcoming)
Bruce Highway Moment, in Australian Poetry Centre, Poetry Lab, Woollongong, Anthology, 2009 (forthcoming)
My Father’s Death, in Deakin Literary Society Anthology, 2009
Natty’s Violin, in Deakin Literary Society Anthology, 2009
Tartan Tie, in Deakin Literary Society Anthology, 2009
Treasured Weekend, in Windmills, Deakin University, 2009
Forty Degrees, in Verandah, Deakin University, 2009