Robbie Coburn

Poet

Australia
AU
Email: 
poetry@robbiecoburn.com
Website: 
www.robbiecoburn.com
Twitter/X: 
@robbiecoburn

Author's Bio

Robbie Coburn is a poet based in Melbourne, described by ArtsHub as ‘one of Australia’s most essential poets’.

His verse novel, The Foal in the Wire, will be published by Hachette Australia in 2025.

His poetry collections include Ghost Poetry (2024), And I Could Not Have Hurt You (2023), and The Other Flesh (2019).

His poems have been published in Poetry, Meanjin, Island, Westerly, Quadrant, and elsewhere, and anthologised in books including Writing to the Wire (2016) and To End All Wars (2018).

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
a hole in the light: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2018 (Red Moon Press, 2019)
,
To End All Wars (Puncher & Wattmann, 2018)
,
Writing to the Wire (UWA Publishing, 2016)
Books:
The Other Flesh (UWA Publishing, 2019)
,
Rain Season (Picaro Press, 2013)
Journals:
Blithe Spirit
,
Cordite Poetry Review
,
Frogpond
,
Going Down Swinging
,
Hedgerow: A Journal of Small Poems
,
Island
,
Mascara Literary Review
,
Meanjin
,
Modern Haiku
,
NOON
,
Overland
,
Poetry
,
Presence
,
Quadrant
,
Westerly

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Australia
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Last update: Apr 18, 2024