Clive Faust (1932–2022) was born in Melbourne. He attended the University of Melbourne, and some of his early poems were published in Melbourne University Magazine and one in Southerly. In the later 1960s Faust lived in Kyoto, Japan. There he met the American expatriate poet and editor Cid Corman (1924–2004), with whom he had a longstanding friendship and correspondence. On his returning to Australia in the early 1970s Faust taught at the Bendigo College of Advanced Education. From the early 1970s he began contributing poems to Australian literary journals including Meanjin and Kris Hemensley’s The Ear in a Wheatfield. Several of his poems appeared in John Tranter’s 1979 anthology The New Australian Poetry. He has also published his poetry in international poetry magazines including Corman’s Origin , Tangent and Shearsman.

(based on a biography at the Australian Poetry Library)