english literature teacher

Adrian D'Ambra is a poet and author of the self-published 'The Flowers of Impotence' (1983) and the chapbook 'Cavafy’s Room' (Nosukumo Press, Labassa in Caulfield, 1987). Through the 70s, 80s and 90s he placed individual poems, essays and freelance journalism with magazines and newspapers in Australia (Brisbane Courier-Mail, Canberra Times, Carrionflower Writ, Education Quarterly, Hermes, Mattoid, New England Review, Outrider, Poetry Australia, Prints, Salt, Melbourne Sun, Verandah, Voices, Wasteland, Weekend Australian), Canada (Toronto Globe & Mail), Jordan (Ad-Dustour, Jordan Times, The Star, Royal Wings), New Zealand (Christchurch Press), Turkey (Hello Istanbul, Littera, TEFL Turkey Reporter, Turkish Daily News), the United Kingdom (Acumen, Envoi, Odyssey, Ore) and the United States (Deus Loci, Snow Apple). Early in the new millennium he reinvented himself as a writer by writing a book-length study of the lyrics of Bob Dylan called 'Perfect Stranger' which is now complete but remains unpublished. He is currently working on a major retrospective poetic opus called 'Fragments 1-60'. He is also a retired English and Literature teacher living in Melbourne where he has taught at Frankston High School, Haileybury and McKinnon Secondary College. In the 1990s he taught overseas for the ISTEK Vakfi in Istanbul, Turkey, and the Amman Baccalaureate School in Jordan. The decline of VCE Literature as a subject in Victoria prompted him to share his teaching resources online.