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Robbie Coburn

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Robbie Coburn is a contemporary Australian poet. His poems have been published widely in magazines and anthologies and his books include Ghost Poetry (2024), And I Could Not Have Hurt You (2023) and The Other Flesh (2019). His first verse novel, The Foal in the Wire, described as ‘an astonishingly raw and beautiful verse novel about survival, love and the bonds between humans and animals from an important young Australian poet’, will be published by Hachette Australia in 2025.

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Ghost Poetry

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The Other Flesh

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The Foal in the Wire

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And I Could Not Have Hurt You

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Rain Season

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Human Batteries

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Blinding Narcissus

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Womb: A Poem in Dramatic Form

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Mad Songs

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2 new haiku in Kokako

I’m very grateful to have two of my new haiku in New Zealand based journal Kokako. My sincerest thanks to the editors.

It is a stunning issue and I am honoured to be a part of it.

The issue can be read

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