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Robert Walker was an Aboriginal poet. The second youngest of 12 children, Walker's father died when he was three and his mother moved to suburban Adelaide. It was unusual for Aboriginal families to own property in suburbs at that time and there was considerable cross-cultural conflict with neighbours and the large Walker family. Walker was also strongly influenced in his early childhood by elderly tribal members of his family who lived in Andamooka.

In 1973, the family moved to Port Lincoln and Walker left school, aged 14, after receiving a poor education. He had already become a frequent alcohol and drug abuser. He was institutionalised in 1974 after breaching a bond by illegally using a motor vehicle. His first court appearance had been in 1971 for the theft of three milk bottles and the illegal use of a car. A number of minor and then gradually more serious offenses, including a number of sexual offences, followed. Walker moved to Perth in 1982 and was immediately in trouble with the law. He escaped from the East Perth lock-up and was re-arrested in Adelaide two d

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Robert W. Walker

Pen Names

  • Geoffrey Caine
  • Evan Kingsbury
  • Stephen Robertson
  • Glenn Hale

Robert W. Walker, photo courtesy of the author

Major Works

  • Darkness Chasing Light (2015)
  • Chesapeake 1880 (2014) with Ken Rossignol
  • Dead On (2009)
  • Dead On Writing (nonfiction)
  • Dr. O
  • Cuba Blue: Murder, Mayhem, and Romance in Havana (with Lyn Polkabla)
  • Children of Salem: Love Amid the Witch Trials
  • Burning Obsession
  • Dying Breath
  • Razors Edge
  • Blood Tells
  • Blood Ties
  • Decoy
  • The Handyman
  • Daniel Webster Jackson and the Wrongway Train
  • Sub-Zero!
  • Brain Watch
  • Aftershock
  • Abaddon: Salem’s Child
  • Dead Man’s Float
  • Brain Stem
  • Thrice Told Tales

The Instinct Series

  • Dead On Instinct (2018)
  • The Fear Collectors (2014) with Diane Jarrison
  • The Edge of Instinct (2013) with Stephen R. Walker
  • Killer Instinct (2012)
  • Absolute Instinct (2004)
  • Grave Instinct (2003)
  • Bitter Instinct (2001)
  • Unnatural Instinct (2001)
  • Blind Instinct (2000)
  • Darkest Instinct (1996)
  • Pure Instinct (1995)
  • Primal
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    Rob Walker (poet)

    Australian poet and writer

    Rob Walker is a contemporary Australian poet and writer. His poetry has been published widely in magazines, journals, anthologies and online since the mid-1990s.[1] His work has been translated into Arabic,[2] Spanish and Dutch,[3] text-published in English in France[4] and India[5] and e-published on most continents.[1]

    Biography

    Born Robert John Walker on 26 June 1953, Rob Walker has lived in Adelaide or the Adelaide Hills most of his life. He attended Cowandilla Primary and Plympton High Schools and trained as a primary school teacher at Western Teachers College (later University of South Australia.) [6] He has worked as a primary school educator, particularly in the Performing Arts area. In addition to poetry he writes occasional book reviews,[7] articles, essays [8] and short fiction. He currently divides his time between Australia and Himeji, Japan.

    Poetry

    Walker’s work often relates to the natural world, children

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