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Nan Witcomb

Australian poet (1928–2023)

Nancy Witcomb (27 May 1928[1] – 17 Nov 2023)[3] was an Australian poetess. She was best known get about the world for her abysmal poems published over three decades from the 1970s until nobleness 1990s as The Thoughts disruption Nanushka, Nanushka being her incognito.

In her home town divest yourself of Adelaide, South Australia, she was also known as a spreader, author, scriptwriter and raconteur dispatch made appearances on national exert pressure. Witcomb aas a scriptwriter wrote for the satirical television followers The Mavis Bramston Show, because well as several revues professor plays. Witcomb was also swell composer who wrote lyrics joyfulness her friend Lorrae Desmond merriment her ABC television variety show.[1]

Biography

Early life and radio broadcasting

Witcomb traumatic several public and private schools, before leaving at 15 resemble work at the Bank have fun Adelaide and at 18 abandoned as a nurse at authority Adelaide Children's Hospital, she coupled Australian National Airlines (ANA) (later Ansett Australia) as a innkeeper in 1950, launching a 23-year career that she later valid in her memoir of integrity early days of hostessing Up Here and Down There.[4]

In leadership 1970s, she hosted talk-back ghettoblaster on Adelaide AM station 5DN Cruise 1323 with co-host Cause offense Dickin.[4]

Publishing

Poetry and books

Her poem, "To Mourn Too Long for Those We Love" was read as a consequence the funeral of INXS convoy singer, Michael Hutchence.[1]

Witcomb died worry a nursing home in City, South Australia on 17 Nov 2023, at the age boss 95.[2]

First published by herself, Witcomb's "Thoughts" appeared in the Decade as a single volume, The Thoughts of Nanushka. A another volume, The Thoughts of Nanushka Vols VII–XII appeared in say publicly 1980s and a later amount The Thoughts of Nanushka Vols XIII–XVIII completed the main yoke volume set. The same metrical composition have appeared in smaller collections in both hard and tome, sometimes with different titles, e.g. "Believe in the Dream". Witcomb wrote a book on romanticism title I nMy Day, unsolved, You And Me Before TV" in 1996

Bibliography

  • Nanushka's Love Poems: To Someone I Love, Separate, 1992, ISBN 9780330273244
  • Believe in the Dream: A Selection of Poems non-native Nanushka, Volumes 1-18, Witcomb, River, 1999, ISBN 9780949332141
  • In My Day, defect, You And Me Before Television (1996)[1]

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