Documenting some major and minor moments in the world around me, social and aesthetic, as it goes by.
"She came at the matter from a fresh angle : the eating disorder. The sort of depression that comes over a woman when she can't achieve the body image she desires, she said, is different from clinical depression. At such times a woman can experience an ultimate dislike of the body that can tip over into ideas of suicide." – Helen Garner, Joe Cinques Consolation. p.54.
posted by Lyndon Walker at 11:20 am
LYNDON WALKER was born in Townsville North Queensland. He was educated in Psychology at La Trobe University and the University of Melbourne. He graduated with a Masters in Psychoanalytic Studies from Deakin University in 2009. Lyndon practices as a Family and Individual Therapist at The Blue Door in Launceston Tasmania.. He has been published regularly in Australian literary journals over the last thirty years and occasionally overseas. He undertook a world reading tour of London, Paris, New York, Oxford and Princeton in 1994 and in 1996 was awarded the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. He writes, poetry, short stories, novels, screenplays and academic works on Psychology and Psychoanalysis. He is currently shortlisted for the ACU Inaugural Poetry Prize in Australia and the Montreal International Poetry Prize in Canada which draws entries worldwide. He is a father of one adult daughter and lives alone in a house and garden in Launceston in Tasmania, Australia.
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