A Poem I Wrote:
My writing is remorselessly and, I like to think, glitteringly intent on diagnosis: all that glitters is not gold, it is said. The glitter of invention is, for me, found all over the world of existence. This sense of invention is linked with and provides a distinctive literary identity, a creative abundance.
Some readers, I’m sure, can share in this sense of invention when they read my work. But not all readers. For many who chance upon my writing the affect on them is enervating as it is for me after a long day of writing or even periodically in the course of any single day.There is now so much print available for readers that it is easy to get print-glut.
I like to think my literary venture is gallant and ambitious, even if it is not really successful in the marketplace. My unremitting concern for detail, for analysis and for comment is not everybody’s and my advice to many would-be readers is to take my writing in small doses.-Ron Price with thanks to Vincent Buckley, "The Novels of Patrick White," The Literature of Australia, editor, G. Dutton, Penguin, 1972(1964).
I create a world, too, Patrick;
I want to show extraordinary
things behind the ordinary,
the mystery and the poetry,
to transcend the tensions and
explore my world by words.
No mere surface impressionism
but passages, words, vibrant with
significance growing out of profound
numbness and pervasive inarticulateness.
2. EMPLOYMENT-SOCIAL-ROLE
POSITIONS HELD: 1944-2012
2009-2012-Retired and on an old-age pension
1999-2009-Writer & Editor, Poet & Publisher, Journalist & Independent Scholar; Retired Teacher & Tutor, Lecturer & Adult Educator, Taxi-Driver & Ice-Cream Salesman in George Town Tasmania
2002-2005-Program Presenter, City Park Radio, Launceston
1999-2004-Tutor and/or President: George Town School for Seniors Inc
1988-1999 -Lecturer in General Studies and Human Services West Australian Department of Training
1986-1987 -Acting Lecturer in Management Studies and Co-ordinator of Further Education Unit at Hedland College in South Hedland, WA.
1982-1985 -Adult Educator, Open College ofTafe, Katherine, NT
1981 -Maintenance Scheduler, Renison Bell, Zeehan, Tasmania
1980-Unemployed: Bi-Polar Disability
1979 -Editor, External Studies Unit, Tasmanian CAE; Youth worker, Resource Centre Association, Launceston; Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour, Tasmanian CAE Radio Journalist ABC, Launceston
1976-1978 -Lecturer in Social Sciences & Humanities, Ballarat CAE, Ballarat
1975 - Lecturer in Behavioural Studies, Whitehorse Technical College, Box Hill, Victoria
1974 -Senior Tutor in Education Studies, Tasmanian CAE, Launceston
1972-1973 -High School Teacher, South Australian Education Department
1971 Primary School Teacher, Whyalla SA Australia
ABOVE THIS LINE AUSTRALIA AND
BELOW THIS LINE CANADA
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1969-1971 Primary School Teacher Prince Edward County Board of Education, Picton, Ontario, Canada
1969 Systems Analyst Bad Boy Co. Ltd. Toronto Ontario
1967-68 -Community Teacher, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Frobisher Bay, NWT, Canada
1959-67 -Summer jobs from grade 10 to end of university
1949-1967 - Attended 2 primary schools, 2 high schools and 2 universities in Canada: McMaster Uni:1963-1966, Windsor T’s College: 1966/7.
1944-1963 -Childhood(1944-57) and adolescence(1957-63) in and around Hamilton Ontario.
3. SOME SOCIO-BIO-DATA(as of 2012)
I have been married for 45 years. My wife is a Tasmanian, aged 65. We’ve had 3 children: ages in 2011-45, 41 and 34. I am 68, a Canadian who moved to Australia in 1971 and have written several books--all available on the internet. I retired from full-time teaching in 1999, part-time teaching in 2003 and voluneeer teaching/work in 2005 after 32 years in classrooms as a teacher and 18 as a student. In addition, I have been a member of the Baha’i Faith for 53 years(in 2012). Bio-data: 6ft, 230 lbs, eyes/hair-grey, Caucasian.
See my website for more details at: http://www.ronpriceepoch.com/ and go to any search engine and type: ‘Pioneering Over Five Epochs' or ‘RonPrice' followed by any one of dozens of words for additional writings.
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