Famous People with Name Jas

Jas Heriot Duke            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Jas Heriot Duke: was a cult figure in the Australian performance poetry scene. He worked much of his life in Melbourne Board of Works and began writing poetry in 1966. He was influenced by Dada, Expressionism and experimental movements. He writes "I started performing poems as a timid person with a stutter but the spirit of the times soon converted me into a bellowing bull."During the 60s he travelled in to the UK and Europe and participated in the underground publishing and filmaking scenes in Brighton and London. Returning to Australia in 1972 he worked as a draughtsman and continued publishing and performing, writing a novel about his travels entitled Destiny Wood.[1]