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June Perkins

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Born

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

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https://juneperk.wixsite.com/gumbootspearlz

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Genre

Children's, Poetry, Nonfiction

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February 2012

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Dr June Perkins is a multi-arts creative born to a Papua New Guinean Indigenous mother and Australian father. She was raised in Tasmania as a Bahá'i and combines poetry, blogging, photography, story and more to explore themes interesting her - peace, ecology, spirituality, cultural diversity, resilience and empowerment. Earlier works, Magic Fish Dreaming (2016)

Her latest book is Illuminations: 19 poems and 1 story

In 2017, Magic Fish Dreaming won several Royal Dragonfly awards, recently, Second for Children's Poetry Book, Environment, Book Trailer, and for Picture books for over six and honorable mention for cultural diversity.

June completed an Australian Society of Authors Emerging Writing Mentorship working with Robyn Sheahan Bright in 201 ...more

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Reading for Panacea Poets

Read several poems from Illuminations for the Pancea Poets, of the Queensland Poetry Festival, Youtube channel!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzCVx...

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Published on August 10, 2020 22:29 • Tags: poetry

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	Magic Fish Dreaming by June Perkins (Goodreads Author), Helene Magisson (Illustrator) 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Under One Sky by June Perkins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Pam Galeano (Editor), Tara Webster (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After Yasi - Finding The Smile With by June Perkins (Goodreads Author), Cassowary Coast People it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After Yasi - Finding the Smile Within it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Illuminations: 19 poems and 1 story it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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June’s Quotes

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

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“Pizza is made of magic" -Ari”
― Chris Baron, All of Me

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“Inside my skin
is the beach, and the sand,
the redwoods and pond water,
the feel of a kiss, wet on my lips,
a mountain climbed,
and fog forever,
boogie boards,
and sleeping mats,
stories and stories,
and real
friends.

None of it
heavy water.
Just me moving forward,
finding m own story.
-Ari”
― Chris Baron, All of Me

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“A clear thought like starlight,
the kind that only comes
after something tough happens."
-Ari”
― Chris Baron, All of Me

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