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Biography of David Lewis Paget AUSTRALIAN POET. Born in Nottingham, lived in Great Barr, Birmingham until the age of 13, when migrated to Australia. Lived in Adelaide, left school at 15 to join the Navy. Stayed only eight months, joined Air Force at 21 and became Instrument Fitter on Neptunes, Orions, Mirages and Winjeels. Eight years spent at bases; Edinburgh S.A., Wagga NSW, Townsville Qld., Point Cook Victoria and Williamtown, NSW. In 1976 fulltime to Flinders University of South Australia, Bachelors degree in English and History. Medical Investigator for Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Senior Project Officer for Community Youth Support Scheme. Chairman of the Northern Yorke Peninsula Community Needs Forum, President of the Moonta Mines Narrow Gauge Railway Committee. Raised the finance for, and built tourist railway from Moonta Mines to the old Moonta Railway Station. Wrote and published a magazine for the unemployed called 'Bread'. Wrote and published monthly magazines 'Trader's Gate' and 'Central Yorke Peninsula Mercury' for three years in the late 1980's. Ran printing and publishing business Mushroom Graphics until 1990, then Cottage Print until 2005. Father of 7, grandfather of 20; until recently was Teaching English at Wenzhou Medical College, an arm of the Wenzhou University, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China. Now retired and living in Moonta, South Australia, a historical Cornish miners settlement. Author of the non-fiction 'Arrows from Wenzhou', a detailed account of the twelve months spent in China. Poetry - 1-Stand Up & Be Counted - 1974 2-The Venus Bird - 1974 3-Terra Australis Incognita - 1975 4-Ishtar - 1977 5-Bitter Harvest - 1977 6-Weep - 1980 7-Inspirators - 1981 8-Spoils of War - 1984 9-Cader Rook - 1996 10-Perspectives in a Black Season - 2003 11-The Red Knight - 2003 Family History - 12-In My Father's Words - 1994 13-Queenie - 1996 Local History - 14-Of Miners & Methodists - 1988 Fiction - 15-Cates's Creek - 2001 16-The Sumner Tontine - 2001 17-Dark Harbour - 2001 18-The Afterdeath - 2002 19-Prittik's Will - 2002 20-Heaven's Ridge - 2002 21-Experiment in Fear - 2002 22-Blackrock Island - 2002 Humour - 23-Tales of Wudgi Crossing - 2003 Travel - 24-Arrows from Wenzhou - 2007 ..