Graeme Webster teaches writing craft, poetry and narrative in the Applied Writing program at Hamilton Senior Campus, Adelaide. He has published The Writer's Bench, a writing text for students, and two legal studies texts. In 1993 his poem Crossline was commended by the judges in the Red Earth Poetry Awards, and poems in this collection have been published in The Newcastle Herald Quadrant, Northern Perspective, Southerly, The Bulletin, Southern Review, and The WeekendAustralian.

"I aim to write poetry on a firm narrative base, so that even the casual reader should understand much of the who, what where and when of the poem afier one reading. But I aim, also, to instil in that poem a voice all of us have heard, and an insight that piques readers, that lures readers to return again to the experience echoing within each poem, within each reader. Poetry, for me, turns upon the craft of voice, and the insight of people."

Skinning Time explores difficult, personal issues, and invokes many emotions by stirring our buried memories: In a flash of rage which adolescent has not threatened (or thought) to maim a parent? Which adult, snared in marriage blues, has not dreamed of or planned an affair? And, once, we each discovered the taste and grip of sex - and the knife-point pain of ending a romance.

Skinning Time was published in Adelaide by Friendly Street/ Wakefield Press, and it is available through Wakefield Press for $12.95.

My work has been published in The Bulletin, Southerly, Southern Review, The Weekend Australian, Quadrant, imago, Northern Perspective, Antipodes, and in two of the Newcastle Prize readers (Let dark Memory Bloom, and The New World Tattoo).

My publications include three legal studies textbooks (Legal Studies, Concepts and Issues, and Rights and Insights (with Peter Cavouras), a desktop Publishing text (Desktop Publishing Design Concepts and Applications), and feature articles published in trade papers and journals. Unfortunately, I have discovered that poetry we write for the love of it, and text books for the love of money. I have also written an unpublished novel, and unpublished short stories.

In 1996 I presented a paper (Teaching and learning commercial writing - which matters?) to the Inaugural Association of University Writing Programs, and this is available through the on-line journal Text.