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==Early life and education== |
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Bedson was born in the [[Sydney]] suburb of [[Redfern, New South Wales|Redfern]] and raised in Sydney's inner suburbs. He went to preschool at Blackfriar's School in [[Chippendale, New South Wales|Chippendale]], and primary school at St Benedict's Broadway. He characterises growing up in Sydney's 'slum' suburbs: "Our feet were like leather and we knew little fear ... Bullying, cheating, stealing, lying, wagging school ... wandering miles never lost, killing cats, begging from strangers, and talking to dirty old men. If inner Sydney street life in the 1950s was underprivileged, we didn't know it." |
Bedson was born in the [[Sydney]] suburb of [[Redfern, New South Wales|Redfern]] and raised in Sydney's inner suburbs. He went to preschool at Blackfriar's School in [[Chippendale, New South Wales|Chippendale]], and primary school at St Benedict's Broadway. He characterises growing up in Sydney's 'slum' suburbs: "Our feet were like leather and we knew little fear ... Bullying, cheating, stealing, lying, wagging school ... wandering miles never lost, killing cats, begging from strangers, and talking to dirty old men. If inner Sydney street life in the 1950s was underprivileged, we didn't know it."<ref>Bedson, Jack, "Snaps from a Chippendale childhood" in Holden, Robert. & Bedson, Jack. & Cliff, Paul. & National Library of Australia. 2000, The endless playground : celebrating Australian childhood / compiled and edited by Paul Cliff ; with introductory essays by Robert Holden and features by Jack Bedson ... [et al.] National Library of Australia Canberra, pp.170-171]</ref> His secondary schooling was at [[Casimir Catholic College|De La Salle College]], [[Marrickville, New South Wales|Marrickville]]. He worked briefly as a stage hand at [[TCN]]9 [[Willoughby, New South Wales|Willoughby]] when [[television in Australia]] was in black and white, and was accepted to the [[National Institute of Dramatic Art]] production course but declined NIDA in favour of an Arts degree at the [[University of New South Wales]], graduating with First Class Honours in 1973 then completing a Diploma in Librarianship in 1974. |
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==Early career and personal life== |
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Revision as of 13:08, 1 March 2020
John William "Jack" Bedson (born 5 March 1950) is an Australian writer, poet, children's picture book author, and former university librarian.
Early life and education
Bedson was born in the Sydney suburb of Redfern and raised in Sydney's inner suburbs. He went to preschool at Blackfriar's School in Chippendale, and primary school at St Benedict's Broadway. He characterises growing up in Sydney's 'slum' suburbs: "Our feet were like leather and we knew little fear ... Bullying, cheating, stealing, lying, wagging school ... wandering miles never lost, killing cats, begging from strangers, and talking to dirty old men. If inner Sydney street life in the 1950s was underprivileged, we didn't know it."[1] His secondary schooling was at De La Salle College, Marrickville. He worked briefly as a stage hand at TCN9 Willoughby when television in Australia was in black and white, and was accepted to the National Institute of Dramatic Art production course but declined NIDA in favour of an Arts degree at the University of New South Wales, graduating with First Class Honours in 1973 then completing a Diploma in Librarianship in 1974.
Early career and personal life
Bedson pursued librarianship in Burnie, Tasmania in the State Library of Tasmania system. In Burnie he also qualified as a ticketwriter, and began publishing poetry. He travelled for three years in Asia and Europe with his partner Margaret Anne Bain before returning to settle in Armidale, New South Wales where he worked at the library of the University of New England. He has one son, Remy, with Margaret Bain.
Professional and creative life
His professional involvements ranged from literary bibliography[2] to Library disaster management[3] and preservation.[4] He acted as University Librarian of the University of New England in 2000 and 2007-9.
His best-selling children's picture books Don't Get Burnt and SheepDogs, illustrated by Peter Gouldthorpe, are classic Australian tales of the city and the bush. His adult poetry is salted with aphorisms, as in Karma, Sorta:
Youth's the Perfect Crime,
Adulthood the Perfect Punishment'
Select bibliography
- Don't Get Burnt, or, The Great Australian Day at the Beach illustrated by Peter Gouldthorpe (Collins, 1985)
- Don't get burnt or, the great Australian day at the beach [sound recording (Royal Blind Society, 1989)
- The Contents of Their Wallet edited with Anthony J Bennett (Kardoorair, 1987)
- Sleep no more; poems of Jack Bedson (Kardoorair, 1993)
- The Campbell Howard Annotated Index of Australian Plays 1920-1955 compiled and edited with Julian Croft (Centre for Australian Language and Literature Studies (CALLS), 1993)
- Sheep Dogs illustrated by Peter Gouldthorpe (Walter McVitty, 1990) (Puffin, 1995)
- Nojyo ha Osawagi (Walter McVitty, 1990) illustrated by Peter Gouldthorpe
A fuller bibliography is available at AustLit and the National Library of Australia database Trove
References
- ^ Bedson, Jack, "Snaps from a Chippendale childhood" in Holden, Robert. & Bedson, Jack. & Cliff, Paul. & National Library of Australia. 2000, The endless playground : celebrating Australian childhood / compiled and edited by Paul Cliff ; with introductory essays by Robert Holden and features by Jack Bedson ... [et al.] National Library of Australia Canberra, pp.170-171]
- ^ Croft, Julian, 1941- & Bedson, Jack & Campbell Howard Collection & University of New England. Centre for Australian Language and Literature Studies & Dixson Library (University of New England). Australian plays in manuscript 1993, The Campbell Howard annotated index of Australian plays 1920-1955, Centre for Australian Language and Literature Studies, University of New England, Armidale, N.S.W
- ^ Dixson Library (University of New England) & Bedson, Jack 1990, Disaster response & recovery manual, Dixson Library, University of New England, Armidale, N.S.W
- ^ How much permanent paper? Jack Bedson, Leanne Brandis, and Deborah Woodyard The Australian Library Journal Vol. 43 , Iss. 3,1994. pp151-154
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