John EganJohn Egan is a Sydney poet who also spends much of his time at his property on the south coast of NSW. He was a high school teacher of English and History for twenty-two years and was Second Master of Bankstown Grammar School for many years. Later, h was a teacher of English as a Foreign Language and taught University Preparation courses at the University of New South Wales, Wollongong University College, Sydney, and Newcastle University, Sydney, as well as English and Business Communication for eighteen years. He retired in 2013. His chapbook Not the Rain, the Wind was published by the Melbourne Poets Union and Ginninderra Press have published three collections, fourteen chapbooks and a collaboration. He considers himself a poet of memory and the sea but also writes about the natural world, the urban environment and social issues. Read More Read Less