Ian Irvine

Who is Ian Irvine?

Ian Irvine (also writing as Ian Hobson) is an Australian-based poet, writer and teacher currently living near Bendigo, Victoria. His essays, poems and short stories have appeared in many literary journals - see below - and he was co-editor of the innovative online literary ezine 'The Animist' from 1998 until 2001. He earned a PhD in Human Relations from La Trobe University in 1999 for his work on the variously named problem of chronic ennui - also known as saturnine melancholy, tedium vitae, the spleen, acedia, etc. at various points in European history. He is the author of The City of Quartz (a novel - 2017); Dream-Dust Parasites (a novel - 2003), The Angel of Luxury and Sadness (non-fiction book - 2001) and Facing the Demon of Noontide (poetry book - 2000). Recent interest in avant garde poetries has seen him experimenting with postmodern poetics on the way to the theory of 'Transpersonal Relational Poetics' (TRP) as well as the perspective on fundamental creativity outlined by the Zoetics Institute (co-founder). In the early 1990s he was lead singer for the Central Victorian band Goya's Child (who wrote much of the soundtrack to the movie 'Freedom Deep'). Apart from The Animist (1998-2001) his co-editing duties include: Scintillae 2012 (an anthology of central Victorian writers and guests) and 13 editions of Painted Words writing journal BKI (2005-2017). Work has appeared in the following anthologies and publications:'Agenda' Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poets (2005, UK). 'Best Australian Poems, 2005', by Black Ink Books (edited by Les Murray). 'Fire' (UK) 'Special International Double Issue' (March, 2008, Nos 29/30). 'Takahe' (NZ), 'Poetry NZ' (NZ), 'Humanitas' (US), 'The Antigonish Review' (Canada), 'Envoi/Coffee House Poetry' (UK), 'The Seventh Quarry' (UK), 'Psico Mondo' (Argentina), 'Conspire' (US), 'Southern Ocean Review' (NZ), 'Tears in the Fence'(UK), Pennine Platform (UK), Oban '06 (NZ Poetry Centre - online), Acme Poetry (US - online), Bonfire (UK -online), Bluff (US - online), 'Eclectica' (US - online), 'The Writer's Hood' (US -online), 'Cougar Webworks (now: 'Alternative Culture')' (Canada), 'Gravity 22' (US - online), 'Grape Poetry' (US - online), 'Apollo Online' (US), 'Riding the Meridian' (US), 'Deadletters' (US), 'The Resistance' (US), 'A Writer's Choice Literary Journal' (US), 'Healing Arts Magazine' (US). 'Cyber Oasis' (US), 'Baacchor Magazine' (LA/US), 'Curiosity's Escape' (US), 'M.C. Freezone', etc. Australian journals: 'Arena', 'Jacket Magazine' (Online), 'Mascara' (online), 'Tirra Lirra', 'Verandah', 'LiNQ', 'Tarralla', 'Tamba', 'The Mozzie', 'Vernacular', 'Woorilla', 'The Australian Writer's Journal', 'Ozlit' (online), 'Dad Stories' (a short story anthology), 'Works on Paper', 'Media and Culture', 'Idiom 23' and 'The New England Review', etc. Teaching positions (in the Humanities, Social Sciences and/or Creative Arts): La Trobe University, Australia 1994-1999; Bendigo TAFE/ Bendigo Kangan Institute, Australia (1999-2017) and Victoria University, Australia (2012-2017). Cricket: represented NZ at U19 level on two tours to Australia (1982 and 1983); Worcester Country Cricket Club (1984); also, various Auckland Provincial representative teams (1981 to 1985).