FALS: Cleveland Bay New Writing No 6: The Worry Egg by Robert Handicott

The Worry Egg by Robert Handicott

Robert Handicott was born in Brisbane in 1952. A teacher of English and German, he has lived in Townsville since 1976, and his first published poem appeared that year in the Sydney little magazine Leatherjacket. In the late 70s he hosted the community access radio programme Write from the Word Go! on 4QN. From 1980 to 1985 he served as North Queensland editor for The Border Issue, an annual anthology of poetry by resident Queenslanders, before co-editing with Elizabeth Perkins North of Capricorn: An Anthology of Verse (FALS, 1990), which appeared while he was teaching for twelve months in Berlin. His previous collections of poetry are Small Beer (1982) and North, South & Elsewhere (1988), both published by Queensland Community Press, Brisbane, edited by Barry O'Donohue. He is a bachelor, a lover of literature, art and music, and a busy elder in the Presbyterian Church.