Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne and was involved in the poetry worlds of that city then Sydney and Brisbane, publishing several books of poems and a critical work Ghost Nation: Imagined Space and Australian Visual Culture (2001). He taught media studies, art history, and cultural studies at various universities. In 2006 he moved to the UK and lived in Faversham, Kent until 2018 when he returned to Australia. Recent titles are Selected Poems 1971-2017 (Bristol, Shearsman 2018), and Homer Street (Sydney, Giramondo, 2020). A further selection, A kite hangs above the border (Macau, Flying Islands, 2022) has parallel Chinese translations.

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