John Egan is a Sydney poet who also lives on the south coast of NSW. He was a high school teacher of English and History for twenty-two years and a teacher of English as a Foreign Language and University Preparation for eighteen years. His book Not the Rain, the Wind was published by the Melbourne Poets Union, and three later books - Lines Continue Forever, Reworkings and Reworkings 2 - have been published by Ginninderra Press. He considers himself a poet of memory and the sea.
