Giving Voice to the Brunswick Valley About the Author John (Jack) Bird is a right-handed poet from the Brunswick Valley, Australia. He says: "I belong to the Brunswick Valley. Giving Voice to the Brunswick Valley is a 'poetry of place', a collection of poems about my real and imagined experiences as a boy (circa 1940) and as an adult (circa 2000). It is my idiosyncratic contribution to the voice of the Valley." John's other poetry, including haiku [http://www.users.mullum.com.au/jbird/PwithJB/index.html] back to the start of Giving Voice