Aunty Myrtle
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Aunty Myrtle is a pen name of Mike Walsh, a Consulting Engineer and part-time poet aged 56 based in Darwin. He is currently contracted to a remote open cut mine on Groote Eylandt, Arnhem Land, two weeks on and one week off. With my partner quickSilver (Carol) working on a collection of Australian-flavoured verse and photography. We are recently proud to be published in the Inkwell Anthology (Mad Jock Publishers, proceeds to cancer research).
Winning Entry: The Old Man from Malkala
Contest Won: Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse 2009, Honorable Mention
Winning Entry: To the International Society of Poets
Contest Won: Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2007, Honorable Mention
