Shylah Rodden: Melbourne woman fighting for life following Melbourne Royal Show rollercoaster tragedy.
26-year-old Melbourne woman, Shylah Rodden is fighting for life and remains in intensive care after sustaining ‘horrific’ injuries in an accident at Melbourne Royal Show, which remains under investigation.
Shylah apparently ventured onto a portion of the 350-meter rollercoaster track to collect her phone just before 6 o’clock in the evening before being struck.
According to reports, she was then propelled nine meters into the air before she crashed to the ground in front of terrified onlookers.
Before being rushed to the hospital in a critical condition, paramedics treated her at the scene for severe facial injuries.
Alan Rodden, Shylah’s distraught father, predicted that his daughter will remain unconscious “for quite a while.”
A recent Facebook post from Shylah Rodden revealed her ‘world came crashing down’ when brother Jason died in July.
“Dad sat me down and told me that my brother had passed away,” she wrote in the social media post in July. “He wasn’t just my big brother, he was my best friend, my everything, the person I looked up to and inspired to be like.”
“He taught me so much in life, he showed me the difference between right and wrong and he was never afraid to tell me how he really feels…It doesn’t feel real, I keep thinking you’ll call me back.”
Dean Young Poet Obituary – Cause of Death: Former Texas poet laureate, Dean Young dies following battle with COVID
Former Texas poet laureate, William Livingston Chair of Poetry for University of Texas, and renowned educator, Dean Young has passed away at the age of 67.
Young died from natural causes on Tuesday, August 23, 2022, after a brief illness with COVID.
Young was a contemporary American poet in the poetic lineage of John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, and Kenneth Koch. Often cited as a second-generation New York School poet, Young also derived influence and inspiration from the work of André Breton, Paul Éluard, and the other French Surrealist poets.
He received his MFA from Indiana University. In 2008, Young became the William Livingston Chair of Poetry of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin.
His most recent books are Bender: New and Selected Poems, Fall Higher and The Art of Recklessness.
Young was awarded the Colorado Prize for Poetry for “Strike Anywhere”, has received a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and has been awarded fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2002) as well as from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. His work has been included in The Best American Poetry anthology multiple times, dating back to 1993.
He was the Poet Laureate for Texas in 2014.