Robbie Coburn is an Australian poet. His verse novel, The Foal in the Wire, will be published by Hachette Australia in 2025. Called ‘one of Australia’s most essential poets’ by ArtsHub and compared to Sylvia Plath in The Age, Robbie’s poetry collections include Ghost Poetry (Upswell Publishing, 2024), And I Could Not Have Hurt You (Kiddiepunk, 2023), and The Other Flesh (UWA Publishing, 2019). His poems have been widely published in journals both in Australia and overseas, including Poetry, Meanjin, Island, Westerly, and elsewhere, and anthologised in books including Writing to the Wire (UWA Publishing, 2016) and To End All Wars (Puncher & Wattmann, 2018). He is a member of the Melbourne-based Fringe Myrtles haiku group. You can find out more about Robbie at www.robbiecoburn.com