Robbie Coburn is a poet based in Melbourne, described by ArtsHub as ‘one of Australia’s most essential poets’. Judith Beveridge wrote that Coburn’s work ‘is so raw yet so luminous and piercing to the point where the poetry is utterly transformative’.
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, and elsewhere, and anthologised in books including Writing to the Wire (2016) and To End All Wars (2018).
He has also run poetry workshops for youth mental health organisation headspace.
