Terry Gillmore

In the collection of poems, 'Love & Spirit', Terry Gillmore examines love, matters of the spirit and of our time.

His first collection, 'Further', identified him as a poet of unique voice and content.

In 'Surviving the Shadow' he said that on the other side of despair there is no false triumph but only brooding honesty.

He has been identified as a "Singer of urgent and neglected knowledge" and has held a Senior Writing Fellowship from the Australia Council.

He still believes that all true original fiction is largely autobiographical and along with AN Whitehead that the poet is a see-er and not just an artificer; that he tries as William Wantling said "... to figure out how to get on paper the real ... what we call life ...". To track as bowed horseman, the psyche and the heart.

'poetry is the statement of the wayfarer on the paths of salvation and damnation' and 'poetry is possibly to atavistic habit of the psyche'

Vincent Buckley 'Poetry and the Sacred'