Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne in 1949. His books include The Ash Range (since republished by Shearsman), which won the Victorian Premier's New Writing Award; The Epigrams of Martial , winner of the Wesley Michael Wright Prize; Mangroves (UQP), selected as The Age Poetry Book of the Year in 2003, and winner of the 2004 ASAL Gold Medal; and Selected Poems 1971–2018 (Shearsman). Ghost Nation: Imagined Space and Australian Visual Culture, 1901–1939 , was published by University of Queensland Press in 2001. In the early 2000s he was a Senior Lecturer/ Writer-in-Residence in the School of Arts, Media and Culture at Griffith University in Brisbane and an Honorary Research Advisor in the Australian Studies Centre at the University of Queensland. In 2006 he moved the UK and lived in Kent, only to return to Australia in 2019. Subsequent books include Crab & Winkle , The Pursuit of Happiness and Allotments (all Shearsman), and The Collected Blue Hills (Puncher & Wattman). His blog is Graveney Marsh .