Garth Dutton

About

My name is Garth Dutton and I’m a singer/songwriter, musician, environmentalist who writes poetry, short stories and novels.

I was born in Cheshire, England, and came out to Australia as an eight year old child. In 1970, I went to Africa as a backpacker, and worked for a time in Lourenco Marques, Mozambique.

A Portuguese workmate, a girl in her first job, taught me how to write poetry in the local dialect of English, and I soon learned to write my own songs as well. I still use that Portuguese dialect of English for speaking and writing.

I now work as a singer/ songwriter, poet and author based in Adelaide, South Australia. I am divorced, with two lovely daughters, aged 28 and 25 years old respectively (I was married for 16 years).

In mid-2006, I released my first full length CD, called “Long Weekend 2″. (The original “Long Weekend” was a 9 song demo released in 2001. Unfortunately, one song on it became ‘dated’ by 2002, so only the original batch was ever produced).

The current CD is a complete re-working of those 9 songs, plus 5 new songs were added and one poem.

The CD includes such songs as ‘Goyder’s Line’, ‘Australian Economy Blues’, ‘The Separation Game’, and ‘I’d Like To Think There Could Be Peace’, and it’s been described as “easy listening with a slight touch of country“.

I am currently working on a book of my poems, to be called ‘The Apricot Tree’, a book of 3 environmental short stories to be called ‘A Possum, A Pendulum, And A Beach’, and a science fiction novel to be called ‘The Time Of Inggit-Rogar’.

I hope to have all three published in 2008.

I have an Honours Degree in Geography from the University of Adelaide, plus a Distinction in Insructional Design, done as part of a Graduate Diploma in Education, also at the University of Adelaide.

Both qualifications influence all my writing considerably.