Gary Forrester

Infobox Writer
name = Gary Forrester
caption = Gary Forrester


imagesize = 200px
caption = Forrester in New Zealand, 2008
birthdate = birth date|1946|7|3|mf=y
birthplace = Decatur, Illinois
nationality = New Zealand, Australia, USA
occupation = Musician, writer
genre = Novels, poetry, bluegrass
movement = Post modern, deconstruction
influences = Raymond Chandler, Ted Hughes, Bill Monroe, Sylvia Plath, Slim Dusty, Anne Sexton, Russell Kesler, Ralph Stanley, Anton Chekov, Jack Kerouac, Philip F. Deaver, Smoky Dawson, Dorothy Day, John Cage, the Gospel of Mark, Cormac McCarthy, Gore Vidal, Bill Manhire, Paul Freidinger, Allen Ginsberg, Saul Bellow.
website = http://www.garyforrester.com

Gary Forrester (born in the United States, 1946) is a New Zealand-Australian musician, Latta, David, "Australian Country Music" (Random House Australia, 1991), [ISBN 0 09 182581 4] .] composer, novelist, "Houseboating in the Ozarks", Dufour Editions, 2006, [ISBN 978-0802313416] (hardcover), [ISBN 0802313418] (paperback).] "Begotten, Not Made", University of Nebraska Press (2007) (extended extract appears in "Scoring from Second", pp. 129-46, [ISBN 0803259913] ).] and poet. "See, e.g.", “Sitting Bull Hegira,” "South Dakota Review", The University of South Dakota, Fall 2007, p. 8.] "See, e.g.", “Unrequited,” "Poetry New Zealand", Vol. 36, February 2008.] "See, e.g.", “Mockingbird,” Poetrywall, "Earl of Seacliffe Art Workshop", September 2007, [ISBN 1-86942-095-0] .] "See, e.g.", “Fleamarket,” "JAAM" ("Just Another Art Movement") September 2008.] "See, e.g.", “Homo Sapiens Neandertalis,” "JAAM" ("Just Another Art Movement") September 2008.] [ All from "The Beautiful Daughters of Men: A Novella in Short Verse from Tinakori Hill," The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XXXIII, No. 1, West Virginia University (2009), ISSN: 08945993 (a journal established by the American Legal Studies Association to promote humanistic, critical, trans-disciplinary writing, and featuring works of poetry, essays, memoirs, stories, and criticism). ] He was profiled by Random House Australia ("Australian Country Music", 1991) as one of the major figures in the Australian music scene during the 1980s and 1990s. Also a law professor, [ University of Melbourne (senior tutor), 1976-80; Northwestern School of Law (Portland, Oregon), 1983-85; University of Illinois, 2000-03; Victoria University of Wellington (lecturer), 2008.] Anderson, Stephen, “Gary Forrester’s novel follows odyssey of profane lawyer,” ISBA "Bar News", Vol. 46, No. 10, April 2006. ( [http://www.isba.org/association/april06bn/gar.htm] ).] he represented Indian tribes in securing restoration legislation through the United States Congress; “Lawyering down under leads to bluegrass tunes, Rank Strangers,” Chicago "Daily Law Bulletin", 22 September 1989, p. 2.] “Grand Ronde Reservation Plan” (Gary Forrester, Tribal Attorney), November 1985 (prepared under a grant from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, pursuant to Public Law 98-165, 22 November 1983, Grand Ronde Restoration Act).] authored a text on American Indian law; Forrester, Gary and H. Barry Holt, "Digest of American Indian Law: Cases and Chronology", Fred B. Rothman & Co. (1990), [ISBN 083770684-x] .] and wrote numerous articles on the rights of indigenous peoples, the environment, and other legal topics. "See, e.g.", "Aboriginal Land Rights," Melbourne University "Law Review", 1986; "U.S. Indian Legal Services," Australian "Legal Services Bulletin", 1982; "The Himalaya," Melbourne University "Law Review", 1978; "Judicial Approval of Ritual Spearing," Melbourne University "Summons", 1976; "Illinois’ Capital Punishment Statute," University of Illinois "Law Forum", 1975; "Recovery for Economic Loss," Melbourne University "Summons", 1977; "The Credit Contract & Consumer Finance Act," "New Zealand Lawyer", Issue 50, October 2006; "Know Your Rights," New Zealand Law Society "Law Talk", Issue 671, July 2006; "Illinois’ Respondents’ in Discovery Statute – Federal Implications," "The Trial Journal of the Illinois Trial Lawyers’ Association", Summer 2005; "Respondents in Discovery and the Statute of Limitations," "The Trial Journal of the Illinois Trial Lawyers’ Association", Winter 2001; "Conflicting Statutes of Limitation and Municipal Liability in Illinois," "The Trial Journal of the Illinois Trial Lawyers’ Association", Spring 2001; "The Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Practices Act," Illinois Causes of Action – Elements, Forms and Winning Tips: Estate, Business & Non-Personal Injury Actions, Chapter 2, "Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education", 2002-08; "Removal and Remand from Federal Court," Illinois Causes of Action - Elements, Forms and Winning Tips: Estate, Business & Non-Personal Injury Actions, Chapter 55, "Illinois Institute for Continuing Education", 2008; "Decisions Interpreting Chapter 735 of the Illinois Compiled Statutes, 5/2-801 through 5/2-806," "American Bar Association Class Action Survey", 2002-06 editions; "American Nightmare" (regarding the visionary architect Buckminster Fuller), "Pacific Ecologist", Spring 2008, Issue 17.] The on-line journal "Strangers To Us All: Lawyers and Poetry" (featuring biographies and works of poets and writers who have a legal background) declared that "Gary Forrester is a hard man to pigeon-hole. He has practiced law, taught law, and spent time away from the legal profession. He is a singer, musician, poet and writer." Elkins, James, "Strangers To Us All: Lawyers and Poetry", http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~jelkins/lp-2001/intro/contemp_pt1.html.]

Bluegrass music

Forrester’s musical compositions were recorded (under his stage name Eddie Rambeaux) on the albums "Dust on the Bible" (RCA Records, 1987), "Uluru" (Larrikin Records, 1988) and "Kamara" (Troubadour Records, 1990)."Bluegrass Unlimited", June 1990, p. 67.] "Bluegrass Unlimited", May 1989, p.69.] "Bluegrass Unlimited", April 1989, p. 59.] “Melbourne Australia’s Rank Strangers Play It Straight,” "Bluegrass Unlimited", December 1988, pp. 54-57 (feature article).] In 1988, his single “Uluru” [The song "Uluru" tells the story of the Azaria Chamberlain disappearance, one of Australia's most notorious murder mysteries. Forrester based his song on the 1985 book by lawyer colleague John Bryson, "Evil Angels" (ISBN 0-670-80993-4). Bryson's book became the basis for a major film, A Cry in the Dark, starring Meryl Streep and New Zealander Sam Neill, directed by Australian Fred Schepisi.] (the Aboriginal name for Australia’s central Ayers Rock) was featured on two national commemorative albums by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC), as “the cream of a very rich mix” of Australian country music. "That’s Australia", Larrikin Records, 1988 (produced by ABC television).] ["Music Deli", Larrikin Records, Larrikin LRF 227, 1988 (noting that "the Rank Strangers from Melbourne play their own style of contemporary bluegrass").] “Strangers’ band with a bluegrass mission,” "The Sun-Herald" (Australia), 4 December 1988, p. 140.] The ABC observed: “Like our landscape, the history of Australia is best told by our poets, and this recording offers a unique slice... of our bushland, our people, our dreams, and our extraordinary sense of humour.”

Random House Australia’s 1991 profile declared that “the most striking aspect of the albums, apart from their frequency, is the exceptionally high standard of songwriting.” “Bluegrass artist from Tuscola gains fame down under,” Champaign-Urbana (IL) "News-Gazette", 24 January 1992 (“"etc./Music"” section).] "Australian Country Music" observed that the bluegrass band fronted by Forrester (as lead singer and guitarist), the Rank Strangers, “Good story, good songs,” "Country Beat" (Australia), 2 December 1987.] “Riding high on gospel-country boom,” "Daily Telegraph" (Australia), 8 October 1987, p. 25.] “Strangers rank with the best,” "Weekly Times" (Australia), 4 November 1987, p. 55.] “have a musical immediacy that typifies the best of bluegrass and recalls such players as The Stanley Brothers and Bill Monroe.”

According to "Country Beat", Australia’s country music journal, "Dust on the Bible" was “one of the best bluegrass-country albums released in Australia” in 1987, and Forrester was “one of the best songwriters living in Australia.”

In 1988, the Rank Strangers swept the Australian Gospel Music Awards in Tamworth, New South Wales, winning Best Group, Best Male Vocalist, and Best Composition. In 1989 and 1990, "Dust on the Bible" and "Uluru" were finalists (top five) in the overall Australian Country Music Awards. In 1990, the Rank Strangers finished second in the world (to a Czech band) in an international competition sponsored by the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA), Nashville, Tennessee.

Forrester led the Rank Strangers on tours of Australia and America, “Joining the front ranks,” Champaign-Urbana (IL) "News-Gazette Weekend", 8 September 1989, p. 14.] sharing billings with bluegrass legends Bill Monroe, Alison Krauss, [Krauss, like Forrester a native of Champaign, Illinois, graciously loaned her bass player John Pennell (a Tolono, Illinois, native and a successful Nashville songwriter) to the Rank Strangers for their appearance at the International Bluegrass Music Festival in Owensboro, Kentucky, and elsewhere.] Ralph Stanley, Emmylou Harris, Tony Rice, and many others. The American tour included “successful appearances at the Station Inn in Nashville [with country-folk icon Townes Van Zandt] and the IBMA Fan Fest in Owensboro, Kentucky,” “Die-hard fans call for more as bluegrass festival ends,” Owensboro (KY) "Messenger-Inquirer", 25 September 1989 (incl. photo).] as well as headlining at the Louisville Bluegrass and American MusicFest in Kentucky, then “the largest [acoustic] music festival in the USA.” “Louisville Bluegrass and American MusicFest,” Louisville (KY) "Courier-Journal", MusicFest advertising section, 31 August 1989, p. 2.]

"Bluegrass Unlimited", the oldest and arguably most influential journal of bluegrass music [Neil V. Rosenberg, in "Bluegrass: A History", University of Illinois Press (1985) (ISBN 0-252-00265-2), sets out the history of "Bluegrass Unlimited" (continuously published since its inception in 1966) at pp. 224-227, and thereafter notes (at 263, 278, 280, 285, 299, 315, 329, 334, 344, 354, 362 and 367) its prominence and influence as the oldest of the nationally-distributed bluegrass magazines. As Bill C. Malone observed in "Country Music USA", University of Texas Press (2002) (ISBN 0292752628), at p. 542, "Bluegrass Unlimited" magazine was established by highly-regarded musicians Peter Kuykendall and Richard Spottswood. It is almost exclusively devoted to bluegrass music in the USA and abroad, with occasional reference to old time country music. It is a treasure trove of information on every phase of bluegrass music - biographical articles, discographies, record and book reviews, concert and festival dates, interviews, classified ads, and songs.] (based in Warrenton, Virginia), declared that “the Rank Strangers have a unique angle on bluegrass music, and ought to be proud of making their own brand of music come out on top in the Land Down Under.” "BU" described "Uluru" as “one of the most intellectually stimulating bluegrass works of recent years, and it cannot be restricted to mere national boundaries.”The Rank Strangers were the subject of a feature article in the December 1988 issue of "Bluegrass Unlimited".

Britain’s country music newspaper, "International Country Music News", noting the band’s successes at Australia’s National Country Music Festival in Tamworth, New South Wales, found the compositions contained “archetypal elements of nostalgia, humour and religion,” as well as themes that were “contemporary and Australian in influence.” “Blue Skies: Roots & Branches,” "International Country Music News" (England), January 1989, p. 10.] International music critic Eberhard Finke, writing in the German magazine "Bluegrass-Bühne", identified the source of some of the compositions: “In 1987 when his grandfather died in Illinois, he put his grief into writing songs. Not that they are sad songs - there are swinging happy ones, with plenty of religious overtones that brought him closer to his grandfather's legacy. He tuned his guitar to DADGBD, making the G-run more difficult, but better suiting his words and melodies.” “The Rank Strangers,” "", 8 Jahrgang, Nr. 46, August-September 1988, pp. 34-35 (translation by Vera Christmann).]

Novels and poetry

Following the demise of the Rank Strangers in the 1990s, Forrester turned to writing novels and poetry, with a focus on music and family."Houseboating in the Ozarks" (Dufour Editions, 2006), which includes fictional accounts of a bluegrass band, is the story of a circular journey through the American Midwest, with reflective detours to Australia, South America, Japan, and Italy. "Houseboating in the Ozarks" meanders through tribal and Western spiritual traditions, including those of Aboriginal Australia and Lakota sun dances in Green Grass, South Dakota, led by Yuwipi medicine man Frank Fools Crow. A 2006 review in the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" found "Houseboating in the Ozarks" idiosyncratic, but still engaging: an autobiographical "extended meditation on the difficulty of preserving familial and social memory, and sustaining and transmitting values and culture in our mobile, throwaway society.”cite news|title=Novel’s engaging style outweighs its idiosyncratic form|work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch| date=2008-05-28 | author=Northway, Martin] "Lawyers and Poetry" described "Houseboating in the Ozarks" as "autobiographical in the sense that Robert Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" is about the life of Robert Pirsig."

"Begotten, Not Made", his second novel, recounts the travels of a wandering musician and his deaf sidekick, shuffling along on a doomed walking marathon from New York to San Francisco in the 1920s. A lengthy extract from "Begotten, Not Made" was published in 2007 by the University of Nebraska Press, in "Scoring from Second", [ Scoring from Second: Writers on Baseball. ed. Philip F. Deaver, University of Nebraska Press (2007), pp. 129-46, [ISBN 0803259913] .] an anthology featuring the works of “thirty accomplished writers” [ “Book Review: Scoring from Second,” Mattoon-Charleston (IL) "Journal Gazette Times-Courier", 17 October 2007 (http://onsportz.blogspot.com/2007/10/scoring-from-second-reveals-how.html).] [ “The writing is polished, and the sentiments will touch a chord,” "Library Journal", 15 May 2007 ( [http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6437679.html] . The selected authors for "Scoring from Second" included Rick Bass, David Carkeet, Ron Carlson, Michael Chabon, Andre Dubus, Leslie Epstein, William Least Heat-Moon, Lee Martin, Michael Martone, Cris Mazza, and Floyd Skloot.] from North America, including Michael Chabon, Andre Dubus, and others. "Begotten, Not Made" is written "entirely in free verse in the voice of a demented Brer Rabbit."

Poems from Forrester’s 2008 New Zealand book of verse, "The Beautiful Daughters of Men: A Novella in Short Verse from Tinakori Hill", have appeared in prominent journals including the "South Dakota Review", "Poetry New Zealand","JAAM" (Just Another Art Movement), and the "Earl of Seacliffe Art Workshop." The complete poems will appear in "The Legal Studies Forum", a journal established by the American Legal Studies Association to promote humanistic, critical, trans-disciplinary legal studies, and featuring works of poetry, essays, memoirs, stories, and criticism. ["The Beautiful Daughters of Men: A Novella in Short Verse from Tinakori Hill," The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XXXIII, No. 1, West Virginia University (2009), ISSN: 08945993.] The "Beautiful Daughters" is the tale of two migrants to New Zealand, a woman from Chechnya and a dying man.

Representation of US Indian tribes

Forrester learned bluegrass music in the early 1980s from two Lakota Indians, Cheeto Mestes and Mervin Frazier, while defending Indian tribal rights in South Dakota. During these years, while living on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, he also advised members of the American Indian Movement, including activist Kenny Kane ["See" Matthiessen, Peter, "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse" (The Viking Press 1983), pp. 543, 546, 594, ISBN 0-670-39702-4.] and others, and helped Lakota clients, including Kane, Madonna Thunder Hawk, and spiritual leader Sidney Uses Knife Keith, prepare for interviews and participation in Peter Matthiessen's landmark 1983 book, "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse". [Matthiessen, Peter, "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse" (The Viking Press 1983), ISBN 0-670-39702-4.]

As Director of the Native American Program for Oregon Legal Services (NAPOLS) in the mid-1980s, he represented several American Indian tribes, notably as tribal attorney assisting the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Klamath Tribes before the United States Congress in securing federal legislation restoring treaty rights following generations of “termination.” “Return to heritage celebrated,” "The Oregonian", 22 September 1986, p. 1 (re: Klamath tribal restoration under Public Law 99-398).] In advocating before Congress for the restoration of these tribal governments, he worked with activist (and later Congresswoman) Elizabeth Furse, tribal leaders Kathryn Harrison (Grand Ronde) and Charles Kimball (Klamath), Congressman Les AuCoin, and Senators Mark Hatfield and Ted Kennedy.

His text "Digest of American Indian Law: Cases and Chronology" derived from his Oregon lectures at the Northwestern School of Law in Portland. He also lectured at the University of Melbourne, “Exporting bluegrass music down under,” Champaign-Urbana (IL) "News-Gazette", 27 September 1988, C-7.] [ ISBA "Bar News", Vol. 46, No. 10, April 2006 ( [http://www.isba.org/association/april06bn/gar.htm] ).] the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, and Victoria University of Wellington, and wrote extensively on indigenous rights and other matters.

Life

Gary Forrester was born in Decatur, Illinois, “the soy-bean capital of the world.” [ “Decatur Journal: City Winces in the Glare of the Spotlight on Tires,” "The New York Times", 25 September 2000.] He grew up in central Illinois, [ “Talent of Tuscola returns with books,” Tuscola (IL) "Review", 28 May 2006, pp. 1, B-6.] but spent most of his adult life overseas.

His father, an Irish-American basketball and baseball coach, was inducted into the Quincy University Hall of Fame and the Illinois Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame for his ground-breaking work on behalf of African-American athletes in the racially-segregated 1950s. [“He did more than coach,” Champaign-Urbana (IL) "News-Gazette", 6 October 2005, pp. 1 & C-1] [Eighinger, Steven, Quincy (IL) "Herald-Whig", 17 April 2005, p. C-1.] [O'Brien, Don, Quincy (IL) "Herald-Whig", 18 July 2008, http://www.whig.com/printerfriendly/7-18-08-Forrester.] http://www.legacy.com/Whig/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=113633587.] [Lange, Millie, Effingham (IL) "Daily News", 25 July 2008, http://www.effinghamdailynews.com/sports/local_story_207064108.html.] [McNamara, J. Thomas, "Reflections on Coach Harry Forrester's life, career," Decatur (IL) Tribune, July 23, 2008, p. 12.] His mother, a primary school teacher and piano player of European and African-American descent, came from a line of musicians that included the German-American violinist Otto Funk, who gained an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for playing the fiddle from New York to San Francisco. [ “Son Gains Fame Down Under,” "The Morrisonville Times" (IL), 19 February 1992, p. 1http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/467/2208463.htmlref> “Prof. Otto Funk, Troubadour of the World: He Walked, Fiddling All the Way from New York to California,” "The Montgomery County News" (Hillsboro, IL), 24 July 2004, p. 1.] [ “Out West With the Walking Fiddler: From Amarillo to San Francisco, Prof. Funk’s Final 1689 Miles,” "The Montgomery County News" (Hillsboro, IL), 31 July 2004, p. 1.] [ “The Walking Fiddler,” "Modern Woodman" magazine, Vol. LXXVI, No. 5, October 1959, p. 10.] [ “Otto Funk Admits He’s as Good as the Best Fiddler and Better than Most of Them,” St. Louis "Globe-Democrat", 29 April 1928 (magazine section).] (The “Walking Fiddler's” journey was chronicled in Forrester's second novel, "Begotten, Not Made".)

After graduating from Tuscola High School in 1964, Forrester worked his way through university by farming, life-guarding, and stacking bottles at a Kraft Food plant. He became a conscientious objector and anti-war activist during the Viet Nam conflict, and performed alternative service in the Peace Corps teaching mathematics in Guyana, South America. [ [http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/467/2208463.html Peace Corps Online: 1969: Gary Forrester served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guyana in New Amsterdam beginning in 1969 ] ]

Following an M.A. in English and a law degree, Forrester emigrated to Australia, where he taught at the University of Melbourne and befriended Aboriginal leader Brian Kamara Willis [ http://books.google.com/books?id=IbDL3fI961YC&pg=PA199&lpg=PA199&dq=brian+kamara+willis&source=web&ots=mtsHZZENx_&sig=QB7uftE6QOgYAjK4lu8TyFrFFpI] in Alice Springs. Through Kamara Willis, Forrester became interested in the rights of indigenous peoples, and left Australia in 1980 to work on Indian reservations in the USA. (The album "Kamara" is dedicated to the memory of Kamara Willis.)

Upon the successful restoration of the Grand Ronde and Klamath tribes, Forrester wrote his book on Indian law and returned to Australia to form the Rank Strangers and represent Aboriginal clients [ "See, e.g"., “Mier Scandal Cover-Up,” "The Herald-Sun", Melbourne (Australia), 28 July 1992, p. 7.] and others. He was also politically active, advising Australian Democrats leaders Senator Don Chipp and Senator Janine Haines in regard to the Aboriginal Affairs portfolio and the Democrats' successful campaign to save the Franklin River in Tasmania. [ "See, e.g"., Gee, H. and Fenton, J. (eds) (1978), "The South West Book - A Tasmanian Wilderness", Melbourne, Australian Conservation Foundation, [ISBN 0-85802-054-8] ;Griffiths, Peter, and Baxter, Bruce (1997), "The Ever Varying Flood: A Guide to the Franklin River", Richmond, Vic., Prowling Tiger Press, [ISBN 0958664714] .]

Throughout the 1990s, with the assistance of international WWOOFERS ("Willing Workers on Organic Farms"), he and his family (including six children) operated an 80-acre organic farm in an Australian eucalypt forest in the Shire of Hepburn, Victoria, based on principles developed by permaculture designer and fellow Shire of Hepburn resident David Holmgren. [ "See" David Holmgren, "Permaculture in the Bush" (Hepburn Design Services, 1985; 2nd ed. 1993), Hepburn, Victoria, Australia.] During this time, he also worked with Father Bob Maguire on behalf of homeless children in Melbourne, studied theology under Veronica Lawson RSM ["See, e.g.", [http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/research/theology/ejournal/aet_1/Lawson.htm] .] at the Australian Catholic University, and wrote weekly newspaper columns in Central Victoria. [ "Daylesford Advocate" newspaper (later "Hepburn Shire Advocate"), 1993-2000 (weekly column of Australian politics, humour and advice, "sub nom". “The Beagle Speaks”).]

In 2000, Forrester accepted a professorship at the Law School of the University of Illinois. In 2006, following the completion of his first two novels and several years of anti-war protests against the USA’s invasion of Iraq, [ "See, e.g"., “U.S. warns arms inspectors to leave Iraq,” Champaign-Urbana (IL) "News-Gazette", 17 March 2003, p. 1 (incl. photo).] he and his family left America to live on Tinakori Hill in Wellington, New Zealand, where he wrote the poems collected in "The Beautiful Daughters of Men". In 2007-08, he worked as a lawyer for Te Komihana O Nga Tari Kawanatanga, and lectured in law (beginning in 2008) at Victoria University of Wellington.

Forrester's life has been fictionalized, as the character "Skidmore," in the works of Philip F. Deaver, winner of the 1986 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction for his story collection "Silent Retreats". [University of Georgia Press (1988), ISBN 0-8203-0981-8.] "See" [http://www.philipfdeaver.com] .

elected bibliography

* Forrester, Gary. "Houseboating in the Ozarks". Dufour Editions (2006) [ISBN 978-0802313416] (hardcover); [ISBN 0802313418] (paperback)
* Forrester, Gary and H. Barry Holt. "Digest of American Indian Law: Cases and Chronology". Fred B. Rothman & Co. (1990) [ISBN 083770684-x] .
* Forrester, Gary. “Begotten, Not Made.” "Scoring from Second", P. F. Deaver (ed.) University of Nebraska Press (2007) [ISBN 0803259913] .
* Forrester, Gary. “The Beautiful Daughters of Men: A Novella in Short Verse from Tinakori Hill.” "The Legal Studies Forum", Volume XXXIII, No. 1, West Virginia University (2009), ISSN: 08945993 (a journal established by the American Legal Studies Association to promote humanistic, critical, trans-disciplinary writing, and featuring works of poetry, essays, memoirs, stories, and criticism).

elected discography

* "Dust on the Bible". RCA (Nicholls and Dimes) (1988) (finalist, Australian Country Music Awards)
* "That’s Australia". Larrikin Records (Australia) (1988) (composite album produced by ABC (Australian Broadcasting Company) television
* "Uluru". Larrikin Records (Australia) (1989) (finalist, Australian Country Music Awards)
* "Kamara". Troubadour Records (Australia) (1990)
* "Music Deli". Larrikin Records (Australia), Larrikin LRF 227 (1988) (composite album of music "borrowing from different traditions and creating new forms")

Notes

External links

* http://www.garyforrester.com/
* http://www.dufoureditions.com/
* http://www.crockheadabroad.blogspot.com (24 November 2006 entry)
* http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~jelkins/lp-2001/intro/contemp_pt1.html
* http://www.crockheadabroad.blogspot.com (1 January 2007 entry)
* http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/467/2208463.html
* http://forresterfamily.org/index.php