IT WAS a family affair on Tuesday when Jennifer Dickerson launched her most recent book, Quirky Verse, at the Shoalhaven City Arts Centre.
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Her son Sam illustrated the book of humorous poems with clever tongue-in-cheek drawings inspired by his mother’s writing. Friends and family gathered in the courtyard of the arts centre to help launch the book.
Mrs Dickerson has been writing since she was a child, at that time unable to do much else due to polio.
“I wrote this book as an easy cheer-up book for adults. There’s so much bad news around that I thought it would be good to do a book of fun poetry,” Mrs Dickerson said.
She is married to artist Robert Dickerson and is active in the community art scene and has been a member of the Kitchen Table Poets since its inception.
She worked as a journalist with the Melbourne Sun before working as an arts manager for a Sydney auction house.
Her published work includes Against the Tide, a biography of Robert Dickerson, Chiaroscuro (collected poetry) and inclusion in All This Life, This Broken Hill, Stet, The Naked Pomegranate, Tangents and Noosa Blue.