LYNDON WALKER was born in Townsville North Queensland in 1951. He was educated in Psychology at La Trobe University and the University of Melbourne. Lyndon practices as a Family and Individual Therapist in Melbourne. He has been published regularly in Australian literary journals over the last twenty years and occasionally overseas. He undertook a world reading tour of London, Paris, New York, Oxford and Princeton in 1994 and in 1996 was awarded the first Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry given to a writer in English.
"It has been worth the long wait for Lyndon Walker’s new collection of poetry So Many Rivers So Much To Learn. These poems have the savour of a hard-won sardonic wisdom. But there is also a subtle lyrical intimacy that can wind around the reader like a protective charm."
-- Dorothy Porter
"A keen observer of contemporary life and insistent on emotional truth in his (and all) poetry, Walker is a talented poet.."
-- William Wilde : Australian Poets and Their Works : Oxford University Press
"Whatever it is - Lyndon Walker has it"
-- Thomas Shapcott, The Australian
So Many Rivers, So Much To Learn is Lyndon Walker’s first book in sixteen years. It continues his strongly established tradition as one of Australia’s finest lyric poets recognised both here (Thomas Shapcott : The Australian) and overseas (William Wilde : Australian Poets and Their Works : Oxford University Press) but in So Many Rivers, Walker establishes himself in the new territory of poems of family and relationship. Many of these have seen first light in The Australian New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy which have published a poem of his everysecond issue for two years now and so will be entirely new to the Australian Literary scene. Many of them, such as 'Compassionate', 'At A Bus Station In Calgary' and 'What the Music Says' are some of the most moving and startling examples of this kind of work ever produced in this country and deserve to stake out a place for Walker at the forefront of Australian and International poetry.