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Peter and Kathy Earsman
peterearsman@mail.com
Peter Earsman
I've been writing in one form or another most of my life. Only in the last few years however has my literary interest distilled itself down to poetry. Although the occasional short story makes an appearance and I'm half-way through an anecdotal autobiography, poetry is my main interest.
I write mostly formal poetry (sonnets etc) and have little time for dense, metaphor-ridden stuff that seems sometimes more like language games and word-puzzles than poetry. Having said that, I've written more than a few of what one might call vers libr so I'm certainly not totally averse to poetry that doesn't rhyme or which doesn't have a definite metre.
I was born in Auckland, NZ in 1941 and spent the better part of my working life in the Army. In 1979 our family moved to Brisbane, Australia where we are very happily and firmly rooted. Three sons, and a dog.
I'm fortunate to be married to Kathy on whom I bounce ideas and from whom gladly accept ideas and crits. A very fine poet herself, Kathy keeps me edged.
Kathy Earsman
Kathy Earsman, nee Gribble. Born in Epsom, NZ., in 1945. Shaped by my remarkable parents, our many moves as a railway family, and by growing up barefooted in multicultural rural New Zealand.
In 1967 I took a month's holiday and a week's special leave from my Nursing training at Middlemore, to marry Peter before he left for Vietnam. Our months apart were vividly painful, easily recalled.
We have three sons, all of whom write poetry and music. They live near us, and keep in close touch.
I have just retired from nursing. I worked in Palliative Care at Redcliffe Hospital in Brisbane, not far from our home in Brisbane, Australia, where we came to live in 1979.
When Peter suddenly began writing poetry I was so moved by the beauty and depth of feeling in his poems that I began to reply in verse. 'From a Soldier's Wife,' was inspired by his sonnet, 'Bubble Reputation.'
We write very differently from each other, but admire each other's work.
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