Kevin Brophy

Kevin Brophy’s latest book is the collection of short fiction The Lion in Love (Finlay Lloyd 2023). His recent poetry collection, Look at the Lake (Puncher & Wattmann, 2018) was awarded the Wesley Michel Wright Prize for Poetry. He is a past winner of the Calibre Prize for an outstanding essay. His poetry has appeared in many Best Australian Poems volumes and major national anthologies, including the recent Anthology of Australian Prose Poems (Melbourne University Press, 2020) and The Language in My Tongue: An Anthology of Australian and New Zealand Poetry (FarFlung Editions, 2022). He was writer-in-residence at the Australia Council’s B. R. Whiting Studio in Rome in 2015, and at the Keesing Studio in Paris in 2019/20. He was a co-founding editor (with Myron Lysenko) of Going Down Swinging and a managing editor at Five Islands Press. He is patron of Melbourne Poets Union, Director of the Five Islands Prize for a first book of poetry, and Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne. In 2021 he received an Order of Australia award (AM) for his services to education and creative writing. He has lived in the inner-city suburb of Brunswick, not far from where he was born, for the past four decades. These streets, his home, and his back yard have been the source of many poems.