Mr John Anderson

John Anderson is a published poet. He was born in Liverpool, England, in 1943 . He served as a Cadet Deck Officer in the Merchant Navy and also an NCO in the Welsh Guards, and saw action in Aden and South Yemen. He emigrated to Australia in 1970 and is married to the sculptor and artist Rosemary Anderson, whom he met in Broome six months after arriving in Australia.

He has lived and worked in remote areas of the Kimberley, Western Australia, Arhemland in the Northern Territory, Papua New Guinea, Africa and a number of other regions in Australia.