I would like to intoduce myself to all and sundry. I have only been writing
for 6 years and have come to love poetry. Mum says, 'where do you get it
from?' I really don't know to be honest. But I have a convict ancestor named
Robert James born in Tipperary, Scotland who married Catherine Flanagan from
Kings City, Ireland. So there's the beginning of that querky sense of
feeling like I belong to the rest of the world.
Robert James was transported beyond the Seas for fourteen years. He stole
shirts and malt from a farmer in Stoneyford, Parish of Rafford and County of
Elgin. The trial papers explain that he was court wearing a shirt which was
better than they thought he could afford to wear.
My brother's first names are Robert James - no one knew then about the
lineage of similar names.
I knew I was a writer at the age of six when I wrote a story called 'The
Adventures of a Stamp.' I was the stamp that was born in the paper mills of
Queensland and I was sent to Western Australia (must have known I'd end up
here). Trouble was I came to Mrs Brown's house stuck on an envelope and
stupid old Dick Brown said he had it already and threw me into the garbage
bin!
So, folks after a lapse of 30 years of non-encouragement of creative writing
suppressed by a NSW country education, here I am and I'm not going away!
Cheers
Helen Hagemann
http://www.geocities.com/helen_hagemann
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