John Mateer's books and publications have appeared in Australia, South Africa, Portugal, Austria, Macau, Sumatra, Japan and the UK. His work has been translated into European and Asian languages, Farsi and the Portuguese of Brazil. His books, Jo ão: (sonnets) and Unbelievers, or 'The Moor' , were published by Shearsman. Unbelievers, or 'The Moor' has had editions in Vienna, Coimbra and Sydney. Collections of his selected poems are being translated into German and Swedish, with an expanded, translated version of Jo ã o also in preparation. His prose work includes a travelogue on Sumatra, an historically accurate fiction on the origin of the Malays of the Cocos-Keeling Islands and, with a Dutch art-historian, a small book on iconoclasm . He currently resides in Perth/Boorloo, Australia.