Background
Bedson was born in the Sydney suburb of Redfern and raised in Sydney"s inner suburbs.
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Jack Bedson
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Education
University of New South Wales.
Career
He went to preschool at Blackfriar"s Public School in Chippendale, primary school at Street Benedict"s Broadway, and secondary at De Louisiana Salle College, Marrickville. He worked briefly as a stage hand at TCN9 Willoughby, and was accepted to the National Institute of Dramatic Art production course but declined in favour of an Arts degree at the University of New South Wales, graduating with First Class Honours in 1973 then completing a Diploma in Librarianship in 1974. Bedson pursued librarianship in Tasmania where he also qualified as a ticketwriter, and began publishing poetry.
He acted as University Librarian in 2000 and 2007-2009.
His adult poetry is salted with aphorisms, as in Karma, Sorta: Youth"s the Perfect Crime, Adulthood the Perfect Punishment.
