Tim SladeTim Slade is an Australian Poet. His poems have received praise in the Margaret Reid International Poetry Prize, the Janice Bostock Haiku Award, the Australian Cricket Poetry Prize and the Henry Lawson Festival Award. His poems have been published widely, including in The Weekend Australian, The Koori Mail, Australian Poetry Anthology, Growing Up Disabled In Australia and Cordite Poetry Review. Born in 1976, Tim was raised in the industrial suburb of Lutana, in Hobart, Tasmania. He graduated from the University of Tasmania as a school teacher, but his career was curtailed early by chronic auto-immune illnesses. In 2009 Tim moved to the town of Pioneer, where he has investigated the health risks associated with heavy metal pollution in drinking water and actively advocated for the reform of Tasmanian water policies and practices. Read More Read Less