Strange Wings

We are all poets; each of us writing a poem we call our life. The 45 poems in this volume are poems of the heart and speak of joy and pain, anger and love. They bring insights into how life can be understood more profoundly , lived more intensely and into what it means to be human and alive.

We are all poets; each of us is writing a poem we call a life. Poets who write in words are different only in that they take time out to share with others the shifts in awareness that occur as we pay deep attention to our ongoing experience and struggle to wrest new meaning and wisdom from the chaos of everyday life. Reading poems can create similar shifts of awareness, bringing insights into how life can be understood more profoundly and lived more intensely. The poems in this volume are poems of the heart, speaking of joy and pain, anger and love, of what it means to be human and alive.

Dexter Dunphy is Emeritus Professor, University of Technology Sydney, where he previously held the position of Distinguished Professor. He holds a BA (hons) M Ed (hons) from Sydney University and a PhD from Harvard University. He is widely published internationally in management and the social sciences and is author or co-author of 25 books and over 100 articles and book chapters. He has held visiting professorships at major international universities and consulted extensively in organisational change and corporate sustainability. In 2007 he was awarded an AM in the Order of Australia honours list. Throughout his adult life Dexter has nurtured a passion for poetry. His first book of poetry Jaguar Heart was published in 2003. The poems in this new collection Strange Wings were written between 2003 and 2012.