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A BIOGRAPHY OF FONDA ZENOFON (Please note, this is a work in progress, as I compile information, I shall complete the article. Fonda Zenofon, also Fonda Xenophon & Fonda Xenofon. Anglicized first name version: Fonda. Biographies, publications and Matilda Literary & arts magazine have been filed will The Federal Australian Library Canberra and The state ''' Library Melbourne Victoria. Also Google author's name. Also google: Brunswick Poets and Writers Workshop. Read Matilda Literary & Arts Magazine, also Matilda Muse. Fonda Zenofon was appointed Poet Laureate by the City of Brunswick Victoria. The Poet/author, has many features, write-ups and contributions in such outlets as: The Age, Sunday Observer, Leader Newspaper's: Brunswick Sentinel, Preston Post, Moreland Leader, Women's Weekly, Melbourne Times, Matilda Literary & Arts Magazine, Also featured on Melbourne Radio: 3AW, 3DB, 3AK etc. The author/poet also has published: Love Verse & other poems; poems, Change; poems, Australia with love; a one act play, Change; poems, the anvil of literature. Bold text'''He is also included in: Who's Who in Victoria, England & America. Brunswick Poetry Workshop is the 1st official poetry body in Victoria. Our first chairman was The Mayor Larry L J York at the time, who was also the first patron. For awhile they received a small grant from Brunswick City Council. Fonda Zenofon was commissioned by BCC to write about the Anniversary of Brunswick and secondly about the new coat of arms which was re-designed. A gathering of high profile politicians were invited to the function put on for the author/poet and Brunswick City Council. Fonda handed the commissioned poems to the Mayor and on the day was drastically shocked to see his poems in book form. A limited edition of One-hundred copies were published and in one hour they were all sold. Fonda was shocked. The poet was a patron of the arts, publishing anthologies of other poets work, running workshops, writing reviews and manuscript assessment. Fonda preferred to rhyme. When asked why? He replied, "If there is no skill in writing, then anyone can do it. Take anything created, take as car, no-one can create unless they mold every single part, then connect the parts, but more important than this, it's the rhythm, meter, style, emotional content, imagery and capturing experiences, pain, insight and reflection. In the end using traditional literary construction tools, a unique creation born." From the late 1940's budding poets started to experiment, at first just freeing up style, then free verse that was written fairly well and politely. But then in the 1950's poets went wild,abusing form, using slang and swear words, writing vulgur themes and tasteless topics like: drugs, sex, coloquialism, radical politics, etc. But what was worse, the quality of the poems dropped, and with each year dropped further and further. Suddenly they took the realm of poetry into their own hands, stating things like. Poetry is anything, write what you want and feel and forget form structure rhyme etc. If the quality was retained fair go,but people started to turn off as these pseudo poems were crude, unfinished, rude, vulgar, one of the mnanyt crucial elements they lascked rhythm, rhyme, meter, etdc. Fonda was not only upset, but felt the whole petry scene was bastardizing the field. After a long labour of love, sweat he began yo be heard, he had a voice, he was an influence. Thus from the late 190's he influnecd the poetry scen so much that soon, everyone c jumped on his bang wagon and tried to copy him. Like anything, once one becomes a little popular, influentuial, especially wiyth powerful poems and his printing press ran hot, Melbourne could not avoid his creative positive influence and his patron of the arts. Thus, From late 1960, still at school, until the present, Fonda has influenced and is the prime influencer of the new wave; rhyming form in Melbourne, Victoria which also spread state wide. In fact Brunswick & the surrounding suburbs: Coburg, Fawkner, Preston, Reservoir, Broadmeadows. Fonda is the first, the primary, the cradle, centre melting pot istgator of the Arts: Even before a teenager he wropte poems and stories. As kids do they have several interest, from primary school library borrowed conjuring bookks,m and learned the basics of conjuring, sleight of hand and the most difficult of allimpromptu using objects that are not magically gimmicxked as well as platying cards, he performed for fellow studenmts, and school fairs, and surrouyndibg subunrds people asked him could he perform, too naïve to think  of money, he did shows for free, but later, did charge a few dollars, unknowingl y always underpayingji himself. Because his family were poor ne v  never   bought trikck, so he had to make his own, and in  tryin tryingtoo think how a commercial trick from USA worked,  devised the same affect but an original version. A jack of all creative trades, Fonda practiced jujitsu,and thus invented his own original magic tricks, he also started to sell tricks, the ones he sold were the elstablished ones, mainly pocket tricks, he even put on shows in Brunswick in the neighbourhood, especial in his own street, with a few wooden crates, bed sheets, for curtain. he spread the word about his mothl shows, kids would pay a few pennies to eter. Butr whatr was his mmain passion was words. He startred to contribute to outlets. bought a second hand printing press and printed sheets of his poemas, then he startet the Matilda lit ans arts magazine.and not only published an editorial and his own but contributors elsewhere. Aded to this he published anthologies of ppoets' work suck titles as: The wedding, Ascent etc. Always experimenting, he founf that some poems were not deep enough buts till beautiful o and  ha d a story, someone aid they read like a balla d and that they should be placed in a so g and sung. One noght he had a dream and he saw himself singinmg a song and there was an instrument a guitar.But he knew nothing about guitars, when he asked his strict father for money t buy one his father stirn;;t refused. so I had to save up and I finally bought one. Music lessons, no way, I knew it was no use askinh, so I bought s music re text book and leasrned on my own. Later I did take some lessons, just to iron out a few things, but,no-one neede to teach one, as long as you leasrned the scale which note and its name ofn the stave. and of course the position on the instrument. Slowwly from ballads, introverted, slow songs, I did more popular stuff. I would ask to  can I play in local pool snooker joints, cafe's, and restaurants, some private pareties also. At first on my own then with a partner then followed with  a band, memebers were mucking arounfd, there were changes in line up finaly settle to one, when that disbanded another was formed. We reased 2 singles and an album. Of cours again ignorant of outlets and promotion they didn't sell widesl and were not on official charts as they were independent y but still madse in Austeralia. We did sell copies at events we performed at. Like I said, Fonda was the Founder of Brunswick Potrry workshop the first ofcial poetry body in Victoria, if not Australia and was the original artist in Brunswick and surrounding. Sure there may have been brass bandsm choirs etc, but we are talking about creative arts, poetry, culturasl movements and influences. Still restless, he felt like every other poet, fate would have it that the new and next Mayor at the time wanted a poem for his lady friend and wanted me to write something. I thought it strange as Fonfda said,"But you are a grown up, and its your lady," his reply was. I worl in insurance, I can write for business, but I wouldn't want to give a poe to my lady, it may be si bad I'll lose her, so I took the task ofd wribng a love poem. He paid me for my time and effort.One day he told me to come in his office. He was so happy, that not onlt did she fall heads over heels, he said "it's all because of your poem>" He asked what I wanted, employmet with local council, a lump sum a sort of local grant, I shrugged and moaned, then he said how about if I we appoin tyou Laureate. "laureate what's that I said I didn't evenb know what it was. You know Poet Laureate the old roylrty title like court jeeste, court poet, dane, duj duke, knight,   and the like   tbestowed in the old English daysouncil you know at present the of England apoinye a poet in Britain and jhe is a appointe as positin of Poet Laureate, that's how I know about it  he said, suddenly I was excited asndf I jumped up,  that's it this is what is goibng to  make mw stand ouf from the other obscure poets.