John Allison (anthroposophist)
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John Allison is a New Zealand/Australian poet, musician, and anthroposophist.
Allison was born in New Zealand and taught at the Christchurch Waldorf Steiner School for 24 years. He now lives in the Dandenong Ranges east of Melbourne, Australia, working part-time as an administrator in Ghilgai Steiner School, and throughout Australia as a consultant in education, parenting, and organisational development.
Allison plays the middle eastern oud, renaissance lute and cittern; is an established poet with three published collections and many poems printed in journals worldwide; and lectures and writes on themes related to poetic imagination and observation, anthroposophy, and Waldorf education.
Allison in his recent writing has attempted to show how ordinary imagination can be intensified to become an organ of cognition.
[edit] Publications
- A Way of Seeing: Perception, Imagination, and Poetry, Lindisfarne Books, Great Barrington 2003.
- Living in Light Loving the Dark, Initiative Circle of the Waldorf Pedagogical Section in New Zealand 2003
- Where Children Are: beginning to understand Waldorf Education, Initiative Circle of the Waldorf Pedagogical Section in New Zealand 2001
Poetry
- Balance, Five Islands Press, Melbourne 2006
- Stone Moon Dark Water, Sudden Valley Press, Christchurch 1999
- Both Roads Taken, Sudden Valley Press, Christchurch 1997.
- Dividing the Light, Hazard Press, Christchurch 1997.
